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Halteres white. Apical segment of abdomen not metallic colored. 

 Legs black, shining, steel blu« tinged, with fore tarsi black, middle and 

 hind tarsi yellow. Wings hyaline with fuscous marking as figured. 



Elongate. Head longer than high. Front projecting forward, in pro- 

 file, 0.5 horizontal diameter of eye beyond orbits, and overhanging root 

 of antennae, as wide as eye; all frontal bristles hair-like. Face much 

 retreating. Cheeks about as wide as third antennal joint. The latter 

 twice as long as second. Thorax and abdomen elongate, the latter 

 generally overreaching the wings. Anal cell short, as figured. Length 

 5.0 mm. (excluding ovipositor). 



S. Third antennal joint rectangular, rather sub-mucronate apically. 



$ . Similar with third joint somewhat subconical and apical angle 

 rather angular. Sixth abdominal segment twice as long as fifth and 

 broader. 



Described from 2 5 , i 9 from Algonquin, Illinois. Col- 

 lected by Dr. Wm. A. Nason, June 28, 1908. Holotype and 

 Allotype No. 6017 in the American Entomological collection. 



This species resembles tenuis Lw. in its build except that 

 the head is more elongate. Collectively it is more like 

 Eumetopiella rufipes Lw. but may be readily separated by the 

 submucronate antennae and the presence of well developed 

 humeral and posterior dorsocentral bristles. 



OBITUARY. 



Rev. Dr. Isaac F. Stidham. 



The Rev. Dr. Isaac Ferdinand Stidham, pastor of Falls of 

 Schuylkill Baptist Church, Philadelphia, died June 9, 1913, 

 in the parsonage adjoining the church, Queen lane above Ridge 

 Avenue, Falls of Schuylkill. 



Doctor Stidham was the son of Jonas and Anna Stidham, 

 and was born November 26, 1837, in Baltimore. His father 

 was a well-to-do farmer. After receiving an education in 

 the public schools, Doctor Stidham entered Baltimore College, 

 from which he was graduated in i860. He then spent three 

 years teaching in the college as professor of theolog)% and 

 was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1863. 



His first charge was at the Falls of Schuylkill Church, 

 where he began his labors March i, 1868. In 1872. owing to 

 impaired health and the advice of his physicians, he resigned, 



