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viated posteriorly; metanotum yellowish brown; four sciitellar 

 bristles and setse of the thorax black, finer hairs pale. Abdo- 

 men yellow, each tergite with dark brown posterior margin 

 which is more or less produced forward in a dorsal line ; sixth 

 and seventh segments wholly dark ; hairs pale. Hypopygium 

 (figs. 132, 136) yellow, resembling that of pnlchella Dzled., dor- 

 sally with a pair of doubly curved horn-like processes articu- 

 lated at the base. Legs slender, yellow, fore metatarsus about 

 I J/8 times as long as the tibia ; spur of middle coxae sickle shaped, 

 short, about y^ as long as the fore metatarsus ; setse of hind tibia 

 not twice as long as the diameter of the member. Wings hya- 

 line, yellow tinged ; subcosta ends in the costa beyond the middle 

 of the cell Rj, which is over twice as long as wide, the subcostal 

 crossvein is near the middle of this cell ; R^,^^ ends at the tip of 

 the wing; petiole of the media is about half as long as Mo : 

 cubitus forks under or slightly proximad of the R-M crossvein. 

 Length of wing is 4 mm., which is twice the length of the fore 

 metatarsus. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Like the male but the subcostal crossvein is distad 

 of the middle of the cell R^ and the coxal spurs are wanting. 

 Ir immature specimens the brown markings of head, thorax 

 and abdomen are less extended. Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mass. and 

 Wis. (Wheeler, col.) ; Selkirk Mts., B. C. (Bradley, col.) ; 

 Kingston, R. L (Barlow, col). ]n\y and August 



13. Mycomya biseriata Loew. 

 1869. biseriata, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XIIL 140. (Scio- 



phila). 

 Male. Length 5.7 mm. Yellowish ; vertex dusky. Thorax 

 yellowish ; dorsum with black pile ; pleura with subfuscous spots. 

 Abdomen with black pile ; each segment excepting the first with 

 a triangular fuscous black spot on each side which extends from 

 the anterior nearly to the posterior margin. Legs pale yellow, 

 tarsi more dusky. Wings uniformly tinged with cinereous yel- 

 low, veins dusky yellow; subcostal vein ends in the costa (in 

 the left wing its apex is subobsolete in the type specimen) ; cell 

 R5 is large, the subcostal crossvein is placed at the middle of 

 this cell ; petiole of the media is shorter than the cell Mj but 

 nearly twice as long as cell R^, cubitus forks under the base of 

 the R-M crossvein. Recorded from the Red River, Canada. 



