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or less yellowish-brown, the under sides of the front and middle ones 

 encroaching upon the posterior sides, also the under sides of the hind 

 ones encroaching both on the anterior and posterior sides, covered with 

 silvery-white tegmentum; tibiae and tarsi black; inner claw of front 

 tarsi slightly longer than the outer one and provided with a tooth on 

 the under side, the outer claw destitute of such a tooth. Wings hyal- 

 ine, Halteres yellow, the knobs brown. 



Length, excluding tiie proboscis, 7 mm. Six specimens (No. 041). 



Type.—^o. 3962, U.S.N.M. 



CULEX FALLENS, new species. 



Female: Head yellowish brown; palpi brown, the base yellow; pro- 

 boscis yellow; antennae brown, the first joint and base of the 

 second yellow. Thorax yellowish-brown, the sides, posterior end, 

 metanotum, and pleura yellowish, the sparse hairs and tomentum 

 yellow; scutellum whitish. Abdomen yellow, its sparse hairs and 

 tomentum also yellow. Legs, including the coxae, yellow; front tarsal 

 claws of an equal size and destitute of a tooth on the under side. Hal- 

 teres yellow, the knobs brownish-yellow. Wings hyaline, strongly 

 iridescent. 



Male differs from the female as follows: Palpi yellow, mottled with 

 brownish-yellow; second joint of antennae and apical portion of joints 

 3 to 13 silvery- white; outer claw of front tarsi mu(;h shorter than the 

 inner one, each bearing a tooth on the under side. 



Length, 5 to mm. Four females aud six males (No. 640). 



Tyi^c— No. 3963, U.S.N.M. 



Family TIPULIDAE. 



LIBNOTES POECILOPTERA Osten Sacken. 



LihnoieH poecilopteva Osten Sacken, Auu. Mu.s. Civ. Sto. Nat. Geuova, Fobniary 

 4, 1881, p. 403. 



A specimen of each sex (No. 635), agreeing well with the description. 

 The species was originally described from Sumatra and Java. The 

 genus has not heretofore been reported as occurring north of tlie 

 Philippine Islands. Its former range extended from these islands 

 southward to New (Juinea and westward to Ceylon. 



CONOSIA SUBSTITUTA Walker. 

 Limnobia subsWuta Walker, List Dipt. Ins. Brit. Miis., 1848, Pt. 1, p. 39. 



Two males and one female (No. 031), agreeing well with the short 

 description. Walker's s[)ecimen was from China, and he placed it in 

 the same group as Limnobia jmnctata Meigen, in which the small 

 crossvein is near the base of the discal cell, whereas in the Japanese 

 specimens it is beyond the tip of this cell. In another work, published 



