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ing-Primrose, (Enothera, where they ate small round holes, like 

 shot holes. When the plant was approached, they would drop to 



the ground. 



This species is similar to ahjecta MacG. in the topography ot 

 its head, but the difference in the color of the legs will distingmsh 

 them. , 



Monophadnus planus n. sp. 



The insect described as Monophadnus nubilipennis Nort. m 



Bulletin 22 Connecticut Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, page 149, 



is not this species, but an undescribed one. It may m the 



future be known under the name of planus. 



Acordulecera meleca n. sp. 



Male— Body black with the following parts yellowish white: 

 clypeus, labrum, mandibles, mouth-parts, narrow line on collar, 

 proximal portion of wings, legs except proxmial half of coxs 

 and distal half of metatarsi ; clypeus truncate or slightly con- 

 vex; antennae with fourth and fifth segments subequal the 

 third segment nearly as long as the fourth and fifth together; 

 median fovea a very faint oval depression ; ocellar basm with 

 a slight longitudinal mesal furrow, reaching nearly to the 

 median ocellus; head with dorsal aspect uniformly smooth and 

 polished; head and thorax sparsely covered with yellow setje ; 

 head with vertical orbits not expanded; median lobe of meso- 

 notum with a prominent longitudinal furrow ; mesoscutellum 

 flat, polished; wings hyaline, very faintly inf uscated ; vems and 

 caudal portion of stigma yellowish; cell R four longer than 

 broad. Length 4 mm. 

 Habitat :— Ithaca, New York, No. 196-2-1. 

 This species is very similar to marina MacG. 



Acordulecera musta n. sp. 



Male— Body black with the following parts whitish : labrum, 

 narrow margin to clypeus, mandibles, mouth-parts, and legs 

 except coxce and metatarsi ; clypeus slightly broadly concave or 

 emarginate ; antenna with third segment distinctly longer than 

 fourth and the fourth slightly longer than the fifth; median 

 fovea wanting; ocellar basin with slight longitudmal furrow 

 extending from median ocellus to between antacoricX ; antennal 

 furrows distinct; vertical orbits broadly rounded; head and 

 thorax sparsely covered with very short white setae ; head with 

 dorsal aspect almost bare, polished; furrow of median lobe of 

 niesonotum distinct; mesoscutellum not polished; abdomen 



