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larger marks at the ends of the longitudinal veins, /^4+5 excepted. 

 Venation: Similar to the closely related B. annillaris, but w slightly 

 before midlength of MZ- 



Abdomen dull yellow, the pleural region brownish. Ovipositor very 

 long and slender. 



Holotype: 9, Berkeley, California, May 28, 1915 (M. C. 

 Van Duzee). 



Type in the collection of the author. 



E. sparsa is very similar to B. annillaris O. S. of the Eastern 

 United States, but the wings are paler with a much more 

 restricted pattern, the marks at the origin of the sector and 

 the ends of the anal veins small, and the femoral brown ring 

 narrow and closer to the tips. 



Limnophila hepatica sp. n. 



General coloration dark liver-brown, the thorax unstriped ; wings 

 with a faint brownish suflfusion, the stigma and a blotch at r-ni brown. 



$ . Length 7.5 mm. ; wing 8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, the first 

 scapal segment elongated. Head dark gray. 



Mesonotum dark liver-brown, shiny, without stripes, the postnotum 

 a little more reddish. Pleura dark brown, the dorsopleural membranes 

 more yellowish. Halteres pale, the knobs a little darkened, the stems 

 rather elongated. Legs with the coxae yellowish, the fore coxae a 

 little darkened ; trochanters yellowish ; legs except the fore pair 

 broken, these latter with the femora dark brown, the basal quarter 

 more yellowish ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a faint 

 brown suffusion ; stigma large, oval, dark brown ; a brownish cloud 

 on r-ni and adjoining veins; base of the wing slightly yellowish; veins 

 dark brown. Venation: Sci ending opposite the basal deflection of 

 7?4-f5; r removed from the tip of Ri ; Rs long; R2-rs a little shorter 

 than the basal deflection of Cui ; r-m in alignment with the basal 

 deflections of /?4+5 and iV/1+2; cell ist M2 small; petiole of cell Ml 

 about as long as this cell; basal deflection of Cm slightly beyond mid- 

 length of cell 1st M2. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the basal shield of the ovipositor 

 dull black, the valves long and slender, ru.'«ty in color ; sternites dull 

 yellowish. 



Holotype: 9, Fieldbrook, CaHfornia, May 18, 1903 (H. S. 

 Barber). 



Type in the collection of the United States National Mu- 

 seum. 



