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thorn-like bristles. Cilia of the tegulas black. Wings grayish 

 with brownish-black veins ; the last section of the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein has a rather strong flexure in the middle, but from 

 that point runs nearly parallel with the third longitudinal vein ; 

 the g has no swelling of the costa at the tip of the first longi- 

 tudinal vein. 



Hob. Fort Resolution, Huds. Bay Territory. (Kennicott.) 



7. D. acuminatlis LOEW. and $? . Obscure viridis, pedum ni- 

 grorum tibiis anticis ex flavo fuscis, facie alb, ciliis oculorum inferiori- 

 bus albis, tegularum ciliis nigris, lamellis hypopygii magnis, acutis. 



Dark green; the feet black, fore tibise brownish-yellow ; face white; cilia 

 of the inferior orbit white, of the tegulse black ; the large lamella of the 

 hypopygium pointed at the end. Long. corp. 0.15. Long. al. 0.14 

 0.15. 



Syx. Dolichopus acuminatus LOEW, Neue Beitr. VIII, 12, 4. 



Male. Dark green. Face narrow, white. Antennae black; 

 their third joint short. Front metallic green. Lamellae of the 

 hypopygium white, large, spatule-shaped, pointed, so "that the 

 upper and the lower margin strike together and there is no dis- 

 tinct apical margin ; the upper one has a narrow black border 

 and is ciliated with minute black hairs. The black femora with 

 a bluish-green reflection, and their extreme tip brownish-yellow ; 

 fore tibiae upon the greatest part of the upper side brownish-yel- 

 low, dark brown beneath ; fore tarsi brownish-black with yellow 

 base ; middle tibiae and middle tarsi brownish-black, still the base 

 of the latter yellowish-brown ; hind tibias and hind tarsi entirely 

 black, the latter sparsely bristly upon the first joint. Cilia of the 

 tegulae black. Wings hyaline; the costa at the tip of the first 

 longitudinal vein not thickened ; the end of the fourth vein con- 

 verging towards the third; the hind transverse vein somewhat 

 less steep than in D. ovatus. 



Female. Very much like the male. The white face much 

 broader, than in the male, still not so broad as in the female of 

 D. albiciliatus. The yellow coloring upon the upper side of the 

 fore tibiae ts not only generally lighter than in the J*, but also 

 often distinctly observable upon the first half of the upper side of 

 the middle tibias. 



Hob. Washington. (Osten-Sacken.) Illinois. (Le Baron.) 



