THe CRANE-FurEes oF NEw YorK— Part I 907 
4, Size small, wing under 5 mm.; bright yellow, the abdomen yellow; antennae of the female 
short. [Erioptera pubipennis O. 8. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 228. 1859.] 
(EAA CePNOXOXUTV EGOS) Fars crear Aye ceiaie ees Adee heeds at ut Gatien ge M. pubipennis (O. 8.) 
Size larger, wing over 5.3 mm.; abdomen dark brown; antennae of the female longer. 
[Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 505-506, pl. 27, fig. 37. 1916.] (Plate XXXIV, 67.) 
M. fultonensis Alex. 
5. Size small, wing under 3.5 mm.; basal deflection of Cu: near the fork of M. [Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 506-507, pl. 27, fig. 38. 1916.) (Plate XXXIV, 68.) 
M. nova-caesariensis Alex. 
Size larger, wing over 4 mm.; basal deflection of Cu: beyond the fork of M on M34:..... 6 
6. Antennae dark-colored; body coloration grayish brown. [Hrioptera hirtipennis QO. S. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 228. 1859.] (Plate XXXIV, 65.) 
M. hirtipennis (O. S.) 
Antennae with the basal segments pale; body coloration pale brown. ! Hrioptera forcipula 
O.S. Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., part 4, p. 163. 1869.]............. M. forcipula (O. 8.) 
The species identified above as being M. comatus may not belong to this 
species, which was described from western North America. The writer 
has seen only females (from Maine), but he has compared this material 
with Doane’s types (also females) and cannot separate the material on 
the female sex. 
Genus Helobia St. Fargeau et Serville 
1825 Helobia St. Farg. et Serv. Encyclop. Method., Ins., vol. 10, p. 585. 
1830 Symplecta Meig. Syst. Beschr., vol. 6, p. 282. 
1865 Idioneura, Phil. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, p. 615. 
1886 Symplectomorpha Mik. Wien. Ent. Zeitung, vol. 5, p. 318. 
In the genus Helobia there are four described species, one of which, 
the local H. hybrida, is probably the most widely distributed of all crane- 
flies, ranging from India over’ Europe and Asia, thruout North America, 
and southward along the Andes to Chile and Argentina. Future collecting 
will undoubtedly extend the range even more. The immature stages 
are spent in moist earth and sand. 
Helobia hybrida (Meig.) 
1804 Limonia hybrida Meig. Klass., vol. 1, p. 57, pl. 3, fig. 17. 
1818 Limnobia punctipennis Meig. Syst. Beschr., vol. 1, p. 147, pl. 5, figs. 2, 3, 7. 
1848 Limnobia cana Walk. List Dipt. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 48. 
Helohia hybrida is a grayish fly, with three brown stripes on the 
prescutum; the wings are whitish, with a supernumerary cross-vein in 
cell Re and the second anal vein curiously bisinuate (Plate XX XVII, 98). 
The species is common everywhere. It is the earliest of the vernal 
