FUNGUS GNATS OF NORTH AMERICA. I3I 



22. Sciai a ayraria Felt. 



Rept. State Ent. N. Y. XII. 225, 1897. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. In all structural characters like 

 S. multiseta, setse in dorsal patch of the hypopygium over 25 in 

 number. . In coloring like S. paticiseta. 



Female. Similar but slightly larger. "Numerous in mush- 

 room cellar, Albany, N. Y." 



23. Sciara juciinda n. sp. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. Black, including antennae, palpi, and 

 halteres; mesonotum subopaque. Antenna about 1-2 as long as 

 the body. Hypopygium black, near its base with a small median 

 dorsal lobe margined with setse (Fig. 123a) ; clasper without 

 apical tooth (Fig. 123). Coxse, dusky yellow, hind pair brown, 

 legs dusky yellow to brownish, tarsi darker; hind tarsus but 

 little longer than the tibia. Wings grayish hyaline ; veins brown, 

 strongly marked (Fig. 232). Halteres fuscous, pedicel paler 

 fuscous, Kingston, R. I.! (J-B.) ; Ithaca, N. Y., June-Aug., 

 Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Colored like the male, but anterior 

 cells of the wing more smoky. Wisconsin and Ithaca, N. Y. 



24. Sciara sp. 

 Male. Length 1.2 mm. Black, thorax shining, hypopygium 

 dark, clasper (Fig. 119). Antennae broken, basai joint and 

 palpi black. Coxae fuscous, legs brownish, tarsi darker ; hind 

 tarsus shorter than the tibia. Wings hyaline (Fig. 239). 

 Halteres fuscous. Kingston, R. I. (J.B.). 



25. Sciara miitua n. sp. 

 Male. Length 2 mm. Head and antennas fuscous, scape and 

 2 basal joints of flagellum yellow ; antenna about 3-4 the length 

 of the body. Thorax and abdomen reddish brown, subshining, 

 mesonotum, scutellum and metanotum subfuscous. Hypopyg- 

 ium yellowish to dusky, clasper (Fig. 113). Coxae and legs 

 yellow, tarsi darker, trochanters black below, hind tarsus 1-16 

 shorter than the tibia. Wings hyaline, veins subfuscous (Fig. 

 233). Halteres yellow. Ithaca, N. Y. !, June ; N. Evans, N. Y. 



