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tion of M1+2; basal deflection of Cul far before the fork of M, this distance about 
equal to the basal deflection of M1+2. 
Abdomen dark brown, the posterior margins of the segments broadly silvery. 
Habitat—Newfoundland. 
Holotype, 9, Spruce Brook, August 8-12, 1912 (G. H. Englehardt), (No. F3192). 
Allotopotype, é. 
Paratopotype, 2. 
Type in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. 
Dicranomyia terre-nove differs conspicuously from all the described American 
species of the genus. Its vicarious Palearctic representative is D. decora (Staeger) 
of Northern Europe. Superficially it bears a marked resemblance to Geranomyia 
rostrata (Say), from which the structure of the mouth-parts and the slightly different 
venation will separate it. 
Genus Elliptera Schiner. 
Elliptera illini, sp. n. 
General coloration brown, the pleura yellowish; cell 7s¢ M2 open. 
Female.—Length about 5 mm.; wing, 6 mm. 
Rostrum pale brown, the palpi dark brown. Antenne with the scapal segments 
pale yellowish, the flagellum black; flagellar segments oval with a sparse white 
pubescence and verticils that are a little shorter than the segments. Head dark 
brownish black. 5 
Thorax dull yellow, the thoracic dorsum with the stripes brown and entirely con- 
fluent, shiny, only the lateral margins of the prescutum yellowish. Halteres dark 
brown, the base of the stem more yellowish. Legs with the coxe and trochanters dull 
yellow; remainder of the legs brown, the base of the femora paler. Wings gray, the 
stigma indistinct; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc rather short, ending about opposite 
two-thirds the length of the long sector; Sc2 proximad of the origin of the sector, the 
distance about equal to the basal deflection of Cul; basal deflection of R4+5 almost 
square and in one wing of the type strongly spurred at the angle; cell 7st M2 open by 
the atrophy of the outer deflection of M3, M1+2 before m about one-half that beyond 
this cross-vein; basal deflection of Cu7 just before the fork of M. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites yellowish. 
Habitat—Illinois. 
Holotype, 9, Makanda, Jackson County, June 4, 1919 (Alexander). 
Type in the collection of the Illinois State Natural History Survey. 
The unique type of Elliptera illini was found in the “Ozark” region of Illinois 
while Mr. Malloch and the writer were engaged in an entomological survey of this 
section. The genus Elliptera was hitherto represented by two species from Europe 
and two species from North America west of the Rockies. The occurrence of the 
genus east of the Mississippi River was quite unexpected and breaks the hitherto dis- 
continuous distribution of this curious genus of crane-flies. The present species differs 
from its American relatives in the open cell 7s¢ M2, a character possessed by both of 
the European forms. 
