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10. Procladius flavicinctus Loew 

 1861 T a n y p u s Lw. Berl. Ent. Zeit. p.309 



Male. Pitch j black, shining; the base of each segment of the 

 abdomen yellow; the wings hyaline, (bare, the heavier veins fus- 

 cous; halteres white; legs yellow, the tips of the fore and hind 

 tibiae and the apical half of all the tarsi black. Length 3 mm. 

 Wing 2.7 mm. 



iShining pitchy black. Palpi yellow; face yellow; antennae 

 dark fuscous, its hairs of the same color. Pleura ferruginous. 

 The base of each of the aibdominal segments is yellow, the yellow 

 of the anterior ones wide and entire, that of the posterior ones 

 narrow and interrupted. The claspers are obtuse, equalling the 

 seventh segment in length. The legs are yellow, the tips of the 

 fore tibiae widely, the hind tibiae narrowly, black-ringed, the 

 fore tarsi from the tip of the first joint,, the middle and hind tarsi 

 from the tip of the second joint onwards are black. The wings 

 are bare, hyaline, very faintly cinereous, the more delicate veins 

 testaceous, the heavier ones fuscous. Pennsylvania. (Loew.) 

 Fork of cubitus petiolate. (S. Henshaw, in litt.) 



11. Procladius adumbratus n. sp. 



(P1.20, figs. 1-5) 



The larvae were collected in July and October in Eddy Pond, 

 Ithaca N. Y. The larva is a buff yellow, mottled more or less 

 with brownish spots. Length about 5 mm. 



Head short, about one and one-half times as long as wide, 

 brownish, antenna about one-fourth longer than the mandible, 

 its basal joint more than three-fourths the entire length. The 

 eye spots black, simple. Mandible rather slender, apical tooth 

 sharp, -black tipped; the lateral teeth small and indistinct. 

 Maxilla large, with a prominent stout palpus. Hypopharynx 

 composed of a pair of curved pectinate chitinous branches ap- 

 parently connected in the center by membrane (fig.l, h) . Labium 

 (1) with five teeth, the laterals a little longer than the median. 

 The lateral margins of the abdomen fringed with long but very 

 delicate pale hairs. Anterior legs with numerous, short, curved, 

 but not pectinate claws. The posterior claws are of two kinds, 

 the centrals long and slender (fig.2), and the marginals short and 

 flattened (fig.3) ; all of the same brownish color. The dorso-anal 

 papillae are long and slender, each with ten long brownish setae. 

 The four anal blood gills are pointed and slender, but not as long 

 as the anal prolegs. 



The pupa is brownish; length about 3 mm. Respiratory 

 trumpets slender (fig.5), about as long as one of the abdominal 



