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line, bare, the longitudinal veins pale, the crossveins fuscous 

 black and fuscous bordered. Length 3.5 mm. Wing 3.75 nun. 



The head is very pale yellow. The palpi fuscous. The antennae 

 are short, fuscous, with the scapus (basal joints) pale yellow. 

 The humeral spots of the thorax and the pleura are pale yellow; 

 the dorsal stripes are confluent, reddish ferruginous, and fuscous 

 marginate. The scutellum is fuscous, with a yellow median line. 

 The metanotum is fuscous black; the pectus ferruginous. The 

 first segment of the abdomen is wholly yellow, the second is yel- 

 low with a fuscous base; the remaining segments are black, each 

 with a yellow posterior margin. The legs are yellow, black an- 

 nulate; the median ring of the femur is wide but somewhat faint, 

 the a.pical ring narrower and distinct; the tibia! rings are dis- 

 tinct, the sub-basal one wide, the apical one narrow. The fore 

 tarsus from the tip of the first joint is black, the middle and hind 

 tarsi each have the tip of the first joint and all the following 

 joints black. Halteres pale yellow. Wings hyaline, bare, the 

 longitudinal veins are yellowish, the crossveins are fuscous black 

 with a fuscous border. New York. (Loew.) Fork of cubitus 

 sessile. (S. Henshaw, in litt.) May possibly belong to Anatopynia. 



9. Procladius caliginosus new species 



(P1.27, fig.2) 



Female. Dark brown, somewhat shining, with robust body. 

 Wings bare, slightly smoky, crossvein clouded. Length 3.5 to 4 

 mm. 



Resembles P. ping u is Loew, differs from it in having the 

 antennae wholly fuscous, and in having the tibiae nearly wholly 

 brown. The head, mouth parts and anitennae wholly fuscous, ver- 

 tex, shining. Dorsum of thorax shining brown, with three shining 

 dark brown stripes, the middle one divided. Scutelluim and meta- 

 notuim shining dark brown. Pleura pale brown, sternum darker 

 brown. Abdomen wholly dark brown, subshinmg. -Coxae pale, 

 trocanters and femora yellow, the apical one third of the first 

 pair of the femora and the apical one fourth or one fifth of the 

 second and the third pairs brown ; tibiae brown, the middle sec- 

 tion of the middle pair slightly paler, the hind pair with a broad 

 yellowish band beyond the middle. Tarsi brown, the basal two 

 thirds of middle and hind metatarsi yellowish. Fourth tarsal 

 joints obcordate. Wings slightly smoky, particularly along the 

 course of the veins ; anterior veins brown, crossvein clouded with 

 brown. R 2 present, crossvein like, near the tip of B . The cubitus 

 forks a little beyond the M-Cu crossvein. Halteres sordidly yel- 

 low. Fore metatarsus about 0.6 as long as its tibia. Several 

 specimens, Ithaca, N. Y. 



