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eued ; the claspers brownish mellow, as long as the last segment; 

 the hair of the abdomen pale yellow or light brown, very dense 

 and long. Legs nnicolored, pale broiwnish yellow; the coxae 

 alone somewhat darker ; the fore tarsi not hairy ; the fore meta- 

 tarsus about one fourth shorter than the tibia; the fore femora 

 upon the flexor surface, as also the whole of the hind legs Avith a 

 moderately long, delicate, yelloAvish hair. Halteres pale yellow 

 or whitish. Wings hairy, hence grayish, clouded and sipotted; 

 the most conspicuous spot covers the crossveins, another spot 

 nearer the wing tip between the radius and media, another below 

 the crossvein not far from the posterior margin ; the humeral 

 crossvein is black; the media is bent downwards a little just be- 

 fore its ending at the Aving tip; the fork of the cubitus begins at 

 the M-Cu crossvein and is therefore sessile. Translation from the 

 Dutch of V. d. Wul]). Wisconsin. 



4. Ablabesmyia carnea Fabricius 



1805 C h i r o n o m u s Fabr. Syst. Ant. 41, IG 



1818 T a n y p u s IMeigen. Syst. Besclir. 1 :G7, 21 



1850 T a n y p u s Zetterstedt. Dipt. Seand. 9 :3G20 



18G4 T a n y p u s Schiner. Fauna Aiistriaca. 2 :G20 



1877 Tanypus V. d. Wulp. Dipt. Neerlandica. p.304 



1823 Tanypus a 1 b i p e s Fi-ies. Monogr. Tanyp. Suec. IG, ll 



{P1.20, figs. 6, 7, 8) 



Larva. Larvae from Ithaca, N. Y. Reddish yellow. Head 

 about three times as long as wide, the antennae slender, three 

 times as long as the mandible, the first joint three-fourths of the 

 total length. The labrum smooth above, hairy beneath, with 

 two short and two more elongate, very slender joanted papillae. 

 ^Mandibles slender, apical tooth black tipped, elongate, lateral 

 teeth small and irregular. Maxilla with a stout cylindrical 

 palpus, having a crown of 5 or G apparently jointed terminal 

 joints. The marginal teeth of the labium arc rounded, of equal 

 size and five in number; those of the hypopliarynx are minute, 

 rounded and also of equal size (fig.6, h). The body has a very 

 few S'cattei'cd minute setae. Caudal apjjcndages as shown in 

 pi. 10, fig.lO. The claws of the ])Osterior legs are very slender, 

 and the slender, central ones ai)i)arently without a basal pronii- 

 nence. Anterior claws (piite numerous and slender, not pecti- 

 nate. 



Pupa. Yellowish; length 4 mm. Kesjuratoi-y trumpet cucum- 

 ber shaped with basal end somewhai curved and tapering (pi. 20, 

 fig.7); near the base of each is an arcuate transverse line of 

 short, pale, blunt tubercles. Abdominal segments nearly devoid 

 of setae. The caudal fin (pl.2(K fig.8) consists of two pointed 



