25o Maine; agricui^turai, expe;rime;nt station. 1909. 



R2+3 oblique ; coalesced part of the media about a third as long 

 as the petiole ; anal vein produced to the margin ; the distance 

 from the humeral crossvein to the base of the radial sector is 

 about one-fourth of the distance to the tip of the wing. Hal- 

 teres yellow. The hypopygium is robust (fig. 99) the forceps 

 lobe-like. Ithaca, N. Y. ; Capens, Maine, July (C. W. John- 

 son) ; Knoxville, Tenn. My specimens are like the type in the 

 museum at Cambridge, Mass., which is recorded from the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 



18. Platyiira mendica Loew. 

 1869. mendica Loew. Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XIII. 135, 



Female. Length 3 mm. Yellowish, legs paler, tarsi more 

 dusky. Antennae rather short, fuscous, the basal joints yellow- 

 ish. The base of each abdominal segment subfuscous. Wings 

 uniformly yellowish with a tinge of cinereous, veins fuscous; 

 subcostal vein ends in the costa a little proximad of the base of 

 the radial sector; R3+3 rather long and oblique in jDosition; 

 length of wing 3 mm. Halteres yellow. Recorded from New 

 York. 



A female specimen from Hampton, N. H., collected by Mr. 

 S. A. Shaw is 4 mm. long; thorax with indications of three 

 pale brown confluent stripes; fore metatarsus one-fifth shorter 

 than the tibia; subcostal vein ends nearly opposite base of the 

 radial sector; the subcostal crossvein is situated about the 

 length of the humeral" crossvein beyond the latter; the tip of 

 R4-I-5 and costa very faintly tinged with brown; coalesced part 

 of media about half as long as its petiole; anal vein prolonged 

 to the margin. Excepting for the brown tinge near tip of wing 

 these characters are also possessed by the type In the museum 

 at Cambridge. 



A female specimen from Blue Hills, Mass., collected by Mr. 

 C. W. Johnson, in July is similar but thoracic stripes are more 

 distinct, the brown on the abdomen more extended, and without 

 a suggestion, of brown near tip of wing. 



Some defective specimens from Wisconsin, Oregon and 

 Ithaca, N. Y., seem also to belong here. 



