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Leiomyza melanderi n. sp. (Text Fig. 1, wing). 



Smaller than slossoiiae (1.5 mm.), all the femora slender; legs pale 

 yellow, last tarsal joint almost black. Face not usually so whitish, 

 more yellow. The specimen from Montreal has the head darker, front 

 blackish-brown, with a faint median paler streak, lower edge pale 



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Text Fig. I.— Leiomyza jn^landeri n. sp. Right wing, under side. X 46. 



yellow, face and bucca quite dark yellow, third antennal joint about 

 half infuscated. This I can only regard as a dark form of the same 

 species, although the front looks different. 



Types, one male, one female, Moscow Mountain, Idaho; 

 paratypes, one each from Moscow Mountain, Idaho ; Pull- 

 man, Olga, Everett and Almota, Washington ; all the preceding 

 collected by Professor Melander, in whose possession the types 

 remain. Also one female paratype from Montreal, Canada, 

 collected by Rev. Jos. Ouellet. Two paratypes from Washing- 

 ton in the United States National Museum. 



Literature cited. 

 Becker, 1902, Zeitsch. f. Hym. u. Dipt., ii, 340. 

 Czerny, 1903, Wien. Ent. Zeit., xxii, 127. 

 Macquart, 1835, Hist. Nat. Dipt., ii, 605. 

 Meigen, 1838, Syst. Beschr. eur. Zweifl. Ins., vi, 394. 

 Melander, 1913, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xx, 228. 



Oldenberg, 1914, Arch. f. naturgesch., 80 Jahrg., Abth. A. Heft 2. 

 p. 36. 



ScHiNER, 1864, Fauna Austr., ii, 309. 



Westwood, 1840, Introd. Mod. Class., ii, app., 152. 



WiLLisTON, 1896a, Ent. News, vii, 394. 



Id., 1896b. Manual of N. A. Dipt., sec. ed., 104. 



Ti)., 1908, Manual, 3d ed. 



Zetterstedt, 1848, Dipt. Scand., vii, 2676. 



