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'Var, c. male. Yellowish brown; length 2 to 2.5 mm. Thorax, 

 including pleura, sternum, and metanotum reddish brown, scutel- 

 lum and humeri jellow, dorsum of thorax with three indistinct 

 longitudinal stripes darker brown. Bj oblique light it appears 

 as if there w^ere four dark brown stripes and five narrow whitish 

 ones. Abdomen yellowish white, with the anterior margin of 

 each segment blackish, this color produced backward on the 

 dorsal and ventral surface in a fine line, forming broken longi- 

 tudinal stripes. Posterior segments and the genitalia more 

 brownish. 



Female like the male, but the abdomen is brown, with slightly 

 paler posterior margins. Ithaca N. Y. 



5. Ablabesmyia pulcripennis Lundbeck 

 1898 T a n y p u s Lundb. Vidensk. Meddel. p.293 



(P1.37, fig.17) 



Male. Thorax cinereous black, with three wide black stripes, 

 the median one posteriorly, the two lateral ones anteriorly ab- 

 breviated, the former divided by a fine longitudinal line, the in- 

 termediate space and the lateral margin of the dorsum' with 

 erect black pile; scutellum and metathorax black, the sternum 

 and the sides of the thorax cinereous. Abdomen slender, black, 

 with dense brown pile, the claspers quite large, shining, pilose. 

 Antennae brownish. Legs brown or dusky, tibiae and tarsi 

 white annulate. Halteres yellow. Wings densely clothed with 

 hairs, and therefore cloudy; at the costail margin yellowish 

 tinged, the costal veins pale brown, the others not ooloTed. The 

 venation as shown on pl..37, fig.17. The legs have long pile, the 

 fore metatarsus is one-third shorter than the tibia. 



Female. The female is shorter and stouter than the male, the 

 legs are a little paler, the femora yellow, with the tips blackish 

 brown. Legs all with shorter and less dense pile, the antennae 

 brown, shorter than the thorax, in other respects like the male. 

 Greenland. Translation. 



6. Ablabesmyia monilis Linne 



1758 T i p u 1 a Linn. Syst Nat. ed. X. p.587 



1767 T i p u 1 a Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XII. 2 :975 



1804 Ohironomus Meigen. Klass. 1 : 19, 24 



1818 T a n y p u s Meigen. Syst. Bescbr. 1 : 60 



1850 Tanypus Meig. Zett. Dipt. Scand. 9:3613 



1864 Tanypus Meig. Scbiner. Fauna Austr. 2 : 620 



1877 Tanypus Meig. Wulp. Dipt. Neeii. 1 : 302 



1776 Tipula maculatus Degeer. Mem. I'bist Ins. 6 : 394 



1823 Tanypus annulatus Say. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Pbil. 3 :15 



