126 MAINE AGRICULTURAL Kxi'ERIMl'NT STATION. I912. 



men reddish brown, or more rarely subfuscous, apical segments 

 fuscous ; hypopygium very large, yellow, margin of clasper 

 black (Fig. 103). Coxae and legs pale yellow, trochanter tipped 

 with black, tarsi dusky. Wings subhyaline (Fig. 222), anterior 

 veins dark; longitudinal veins except subcosta and petiole of 

 the media, sparsely setose. Halteres black, petiole yellow. 

 "N. Y. ;" Ithaca, N. Y., Wis. 



Female. Colored like the male ; though the abdomen is usual- 

 ly somewhat darker; ovipositor dark (Fig. 145); antennae not 

 elongate. Same localities. 



8. Sciara habilis n. sp. 

 Male and female. Length 3 to 4.5 mm. Black, thorax and 

 abdomen subshining, with yellow hairs ; antennae and palpi 

 fuscous, antennae about half the length of the body in the male. 

 Hypopygium dark, claspers (Fig. 139). Coxae and legs bright 

 yellow ; hind tibia and tarsi subequal, trochanters black below. 

 Wings hyaline, all veins setose except subcosta, yellow (Fig. 

 256). Halteres yellow. Ithaca, N. Y. !, June; Black Mts., N. 

 C, (W.B.), June; Kearney, Ont. 



9. Sciara sciophila Loew. 



Berliner Ent. Zeitschr. XIII. 160, 1869. 



Male and female. Length 3.2-3.9 mm. Black including the 

 palpi and knob of the halteres ; thorax shining, humeri dusky 

 yellow, coxae and legs pale yellow, trochanters and tarsi fuscous 

 black, wings, semi-hyaline, "D. C." 



Some males captured at Falls Church, Va. (Banks, Col.) 

 agree with Loew's extended description and with the type at 

 Cambridge excepting that the antennae are wholly black includ- 

 ing the second joint of the scape, the humeri are black, and the 

 coxae and legs are dusky yellow. The longitudinal veins, ex- 

 cepting the subcosta^ are sparsely setose (Fig. 223). The 

 hypopygium is large, subglobose, and black; clasper (Fig. 104). 



10. Sciara fulvicauda Felt. 



Kept. State Ent. N. Y. XII. 227, 1897. 

 Male. Length 4 mm. Face ochreous ; vertex dark ochreous ; 

 scape of antennae yellow, flagellum dark ochreous with rather 

 dense whitish pubescence barely as long as head and thorax; 



