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shining green: pleurae green with gray dust. Abdomen shining green; 

 h)popygiurn small, with a greenish reflection at base, the remainder 

 black; the lamellae have longer peduncles than usual, being inserted 

 but little beyond the middle of the hypopygium; they are oval, 

 with the usual jagged a[)ex and curved bristles; the black 

 border is not very well defined, and there are some scat- 

 tered black dots on the white ground color of the organ. 

 Fore and hind coxae yellow, the former with small ]jale hairs 

 on the front side; middle coxae yellow with two black spots on 

 the outer side. Femora and tibiae yellow; hind femora n(Jt ciliated, 

 hind tibiae thickened, the hind side entirely glabrous; fore tarsi once 

 and a half the length of 1he tibiae, simple, gradually blackened on the 

 last three joints; middle and hind tarsi infuscated from the tip of the 

 first joint. Wings broad, short, sub-hyaline, costa scarcely thickened. 



Female. Face grayish yellow, fore tarsi missing in my specimen. 



Length, 4.8 mm.; of wing, 4 mm. 



Three males, one female; Knoxville, Tenn., May 16 and 17 

 (Summers); Lawrence, Kans.. June 14 (U. K.). 



Dolichopus germanus WlicLh-r. 



Psyche, May, 181)0, p. 341. 



One male, and one female, Brookings, S. D. The fore tarsi of the 

 female are perceptibly infuscated from the tip of the first joint. 



Dolichopus grandis, n. sp. 



Antennae red; cilia of inferior orbit pale, of tegulae black; legs 

 yellow, hind tarsi yellow at base. 



Male. Face whitish, yellow above; front green; tip of third joint 

 of antennae somewhat infuscated. Head rather small in comparison 

 with the large body. Thorax green, moderately shining, a narrow- 

 median stripe and two lateral, wider but less distinct stripes bronze; 

 pleurae green, yellowish dusted. Abdomen coppery green; hypopy- 

 gium more or less green at base, at tip black; the lamellae pale yeilow, 

 long, narrow, truncate at tip, the upper angle slightl}- acute; apex 

 jagged, black-bordered, with curved bristles. Along the upper edge 

 are dark small hairs, the black border beginning near the tip. Fore 

 and hind coxae yellow, the former with a few black hairs at base, the 

 rest pale; the latter considerabjy black at base. Middle coxae black, 

 broadly yellow at tip. Femora and tibiae yellow, long and strong; the 

 hind femora on the inner side of the apical half with rather short yellow 

 cilia; hind tibia narrowly glabrous on the hind side. Fore tarsi one 

 and one-half times the length of tlie tibiae: first joint yellow, half as 

 long as the tibia; second joint decidedly longer, reddish brown, 

 exceedingly thin vertically, glabn^us on the sides, with a row of uni- 



