244 Maine; agricultukai, i;xpe;rimi;nt station. 1909. 



pendicular in position ; the fore metatarsus is two-thirds as long 

 as its tibia; hypopygium as figured (fig. 97). One specimen 

 is only 8 mm. long, but otherwise does not differ. 



3. A'pemon maudce Coquillett. 



1895. maudce Coquillett, Canad. Entomol. XXVII. 199 

 (Platyura). 



Female. Length 9 mm. Head and antennae black, palpi 

 yellowish. Thorax, pleura and scutellum bluish-black. Abdo- 

 men reddish-yellow, first 2 segments black, the base of the 

 second tinged with reddish; this segment is half longer than 

 broad. Halteres yellowish. Coxae reddish-yellow, blackened 

 at their bases, femora deep yellow, tibia brownish-yellow, tarsi 

 black. Wings yellowish-gray, a brownish spot extends from 

 Ri, before its apex, to the posterior branch of the media near 

 its base; apex of the wing from midway between tips of Ri and 

 R4-I-5 to apex of anal vein grayish-brown ; a brown cloud on 

 third vein near its base; tip of subcostal vein twice the length 

 of the humeral crossvein beyond the base of the radial sector; 

 subcostal crossvein 1.5 times the length of the humeral cross- 

 vein beyond the latter ; R^-j-s oblique, ending nearly its own 

 length before the tip of Ri ; anal vein reaches the wing margin. 

 Male same as the female except the second abdominal segment 

 is twice as long as broad, and R24-3 is perpendicular, ending 

 twice its length before tip of Ri. Washington. 



4. A'pemon pulchra Williston. 



1893. pulchra Williston, Kas. Univ. Quarterly II. 59 

 (Platyura). 

 Male. Length 8 to 9 mm. Antennae about as long as the 

 thorax; black on the under side, toward the base, red; first 2 

 joints yellow. Front and face black, the latter with whitish 

 pubescence ; palpi and proboscis yellow ; occiput black ; 

 epistome moderately projecting. Mesonotum shining reddish 

 yellow, with light-yellow hair ; 3 dark brown stripes, separated 

 by slender lines, the lateral ones abbreviated in front. Scutel- 

 lum black. Pleura black, with reddish spots; the projecting 

 metapleura yellowish. First 2 segments of the abdomen black; 

 third segment reddish yellow, with a black hind border; fourth 



