102 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I912. 



32. MycctopJiUa lenta n. sp. 

 Male. Length 3.5 mm. Similar to M. pectita but differs in 

 having the mesonotum subshining, and in the form of the 

 hypopygium (Fig. 86"). The thorax of the Maine specimen 

 is blackish with the humeri broadly yellow and with spots on 

 posterior angles of mesonotum, a spot in front of the scutellum 

 and the center of the scutellum, yellow; wing as figured (Fig. 

 205). Price Co., Wis. (W.M.W.) Aug.; Orono, Maine! Oct., 

 (Bred from Mushrooms) ; N. C. 



33. Mycetophila propinqua Walker. 

 List of Diptera, Brit. ]\Ius. L 96. '1848. 



Length 4 mm. Head tawny, very thickly clothed with yellow 

 hairs ; palpi tawny ; eyes black ; feelers tawny, brown towards 

 the tips; chest reddish tawny, with a short brown stripe on 

 each side ; hind chest pale tawny ; its three reddish lobes cov- 

 ered with a white bloom ; abdomen reddish brown, clothed with 

 yellow hairs ; hind borders of the segments tawny ; legs yellow ; 

 tips of the thighs tawny; shanks darker than the thighs; feet 

 brown, tawny toward the base ; wings pale tawny especially 

 towards the fore border, and adorned with two brown bands, 

 of which the one nearest the wing tip is continued along the fore 

 border of the wing to the tip, and is a little broader, but hardly 

 longer or more irregular than the other; veins tawny; poisers 

 yellow. "Nova Scotia." 



A female specimen from N. Y. which appears to be this 

 species has 2 setae on flexor surface of each middle tibia and 2 

 ranges on extensor surface of each hind tibia. 



34. Mycetophila sigmoidcs Loew. 

 Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr. XIIL 156. 1869. 

 Male. Length 4 mm. Head yellowish, front darker, antennos 

 fuscous black, the scape and the very base of the flagelluni 

 yellowish. Thorax yellowish moderately ' shining, mesonotum 

 with 3 fuscous vitt?e ; hairs yellowish, setae black ; scutellum. 

 yellow, lateral angles fuscous, setae black; pleura with fuscous, 

 mctanotum wholly fuscous. Abdomen yellowish, the segments 

 with fuscous markings, hypopygium small, yellow. Coxae and 

 legs pale yellow ; all femora with an oblong dark spot below, 



