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opaque, dusted, yellow above, drab below. Fore coxae yellow, somewhat 

 infuscated at their bases, with white hairs on their anterior surfaces; middle 

 and hind coxae black, covered with drab dust like the inferior pleurae. Legs 

 yellow, tarsi infuscated from the tip of the first joint. Femur of the middle 

 l^g suddenly tapering from its middle to its tip, beset on its lower side with 

 several long black bristles; the middle tibia is very slightly bowed proximally 

 and bears a similar series of blunt but rather weak bristles on its under side. 

 Wings gray with black veins. Venation regular. There is a rather large 

 and distinct black spot on the distal segment of the fourth vein just before 

 its middle. This spot is preceded by a faint and less definitely- outlined white 

 spot of about the same size. Halteres yellow. Tegula pale with black cilia. 



Female. Length 2.5 mm.; length of wing 2.5 mm. Face but little broader 

 than that of the male, and covered with pale yellow or gray dust. Third 

 antennal joint distinctly shorter and with a rounder apex. The knees of the 

 middle and hind legs are blackened, and, in some specimens, the lower sur- 

 faces of the fore femora are infuscated. Middle femora plain, with a row of 

 ordinary bristles in the place of the prominent bristles of the male. In other 

 particulars the female closely resembles the male. 



Two males and five females taken in marshy spots in the 

 pine woods about Pacific Grove, Calif., July 13th to 22nd, 

 1896. Numerous specimens of both sexes collected by 

 Professor J. M. Aldrich at Vollmer, Idaho, Sept. 26, 1896, 

 do not differ in any way from the Californian specimens. 



58. Campsicnemus hirtipes Loew. 



This is the only species of the genus I have been able to 

 find in the Middle States. It occurs in marshes, often very 

 late in the autumn. There is a lapsus in the legend of 

 Loew's figures in his plate VI, ^ fig. 33. The antenna of 

 the male of this species is erroneously assigned to C . 

 claudicans, whereas the antenna of the male claudicans 

 seems to be assigned to hirtipes. 



59. Campsicnemus Philoctetes, sp. nov. 



Plate IV, Figs. 115-117, 



Male. Length 2.5 mm.; length of wing 3 mm. Palpi, face and lower 

 portion of eyes covered with ochre-yellow pile. Eyes almost meeting just 

 above the middle of the face. Antennas black, third joint of moderate size, 

 somewhat pointed. Front dull steel-blue. Postocular cilia black above, pale 

 yellow below. Thorax bronze black, shining, covered with brown dust 



1 Monogr. 2. 



