262 Maine: agricultural Experiment station. 1911. 



6. Genus N euratelia Rondani. 



Dipterologize Italicse, Prodromus I. 195. 1856. 



Anaclinia Winnertz, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. XIII, 770. 



1863. 

 Ocelli 3 in number, the laterals remote from the eye margin. 

 Wings elongate oval ; costa produced more or less beyond the 

 tip of the radial sector; subcosta ends before the middle of the 

 wing; subcostal crossvein (SC2) present though often faint; 

 radial sector strongly undulating ; anterior branch of media dis- 

 connected at the base (Kigs. 174-176). 



Table of species. 

 a. Base of each abdominal segment and larger part underneath yel- 

 low; subcostal crossvein absent. Odontopoda sayi. 

 aa. Abdomen either unicolored or apices of segments yellowish ; sub- 

 costal crossvein present though sometimes rather faint, 

 b. Coxae largely black; the humeri, tibis, inner side and narrow 

 apices of front coxse and the halteres, yellow, remaining parts 

 blackish ; fore metatarsus longer than its tibia. i. coxalis 

 bb. Coxae largely yellowish. 



c. Fore metatarsus over 3-8 longer than tibia. 



d. Thorax largely blackish (Calif.). 2. silvatica n. sp. 



dd. Thorax largely yellowish (Vt.). 3. scitula n. sp. 



cc. Fore metatarsus not more than 1-20 longer than its tibia, 

 d. Abdominal segments with yellow .posterior margins. 



e. Fore metatarsus slightly shorter than its tibia; thorax 



largely yellowish. (Id.). 4. eminens n. sp. 



ee. Fore metatarsus slightly longer than its tibia ; thorax 



mainly dark brown. (Mass.). 5. dcsidiosa n. sp. 



dd. Abdomen wholly black. 6. nemoralis. 



I. Neuratelia coxalis Coquillett. 

 Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc. XIII. 68. 1905 (Anaclinia). 

 Length 5 mm. Black, the humeri, femora, tibise, inner side 

 and narrow apices of front coxse, and the halteres, yellow. 

 Body somewhat polished, thinly gray pruinose, the hairs yel- 

 lowish. First joint of front tarsi longer than the tibise. Wings 

 hyaline, venation normal. "B. C," June and July. 



2. Neuratelia silvatica n. sp. 

 Male. Length 6 mm. Blackish brown, somewhat polished; 

 the pleura brown ; the palpi, labrum, scape of flagellum, small 

 humeral spot, coxse, femora, tibiae, and halteres yellow, tarsi 



