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optera. Williston did something with part of the Diptera. The 

 Lepidoptera so far as they represented the species of Middle- 

 America were studied by Godman and by Herbert Druce. 

 Champion wrote up a part of the Coleoptera, but the beetles 

 of Brazil as a whole remain for the most part to be studied ; 

 P. R. Uhler has described many of the Hemiptera, as did 

 also W. L. Distant. The Orthoptera have been studied by 

 Dr. Lawrence Bruner and the Odonata by Dr. P. P. Calvert. 



Nevertheless there remains a residuum of unstudied and 

 undetermined material in England and America garnered by 

 H. H. Smith which still calls for attention and which probably 

 represents many thousands of nondescript species, especially 

 among the micro-coleoptera. 



Herbert H. Smith and William Doherty, both Americans, 

 were undoubtedly the two ablest zoological collectors in the 

 field during the last two decades of the Nineteenth and the 

 first decade of the Twentieth Century. 



W. J. Holland. 



Ocean House, Watch Hill, R. I., Aug. 25, iQig. 



Two new Crane-flies from California (Tipulidae, 

 Diptera). 



By Charles P. Alexander, State Laboratory of Natural His- 

 tory, Urbana, Illinois. 



Erioptera (Acyphona) sparsa sp. n. 



General coloration yellow ; femora with a narrow dark-brown band 

 just before the tips; wings subhyaline with sparse brown markings. 



9 . Length 5.8 mm. ; wing 6.4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the basal segments 

 yellowish, the apical half brown. Head dark. 



Mesonotal praescutum dull yellow with three brown stripes ; scu- 

 tellum yellowish. Pleura more infumed. Halteres pale, the knobs 

 orange-yellow. Legs with the coxae dull yellow : trochanters yellow ; 

 femora yellowish with a narrow brown ring that is close before the 

 tip ; tibiae yellow, the tips narrowly and indistinctly darkened ; tarsi 

 brown, the metatarsi paler basally. Wings pale yellowish subhyaline 

 with dark-brown markings, including a narrow seam along the cord ; 

 small spots at the base of the wing and the origin of the sector; 



