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Undescribed Species of Dicranoptycha 
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Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the basal 
segments obscure yellow, only the outer flagellar segments more 
infuscated. Head brownish yellow. 
Mesonotum shiny brownish yellow, the pleura light gray 
pruinose. Halters pale, the knobs slightly infuscated. Legs 
with the coxae slightly pruinose; trochanters obscure yellow; 
femora yellow, with conspicuous erect setae; tibiae and tarsi light 
yellow, the tips of the individual segments weakly infuscated; 
terminal tarsal segments uniformly infuscated. Wings with a 
strong brownish yellow suffusion, the costal region clearer yellow; 
veins dark yellow. A few trichiae at ends of both anal veins. 
Costal fringe (d 71 ) relatively short. Venation: Rs considerably 
longer than cell M 2 . 
Abdominal tergites brownish yellow, segment eight con- 
spicuously dark brown; ninth tergite and the hypopygium light 
yellow; sternites paler yellow. Male hypopygium with the 
outer dististyle of moderate length, gently curved to the acute 
tip, the outer margin entirely smooth, the inner margin with 
only a few weak denticles on the distal quarter before the spinous 
apex; vestiture of style barely visible, under high magnification 
appearing as microscopic setulae. Inner dististyle stout, gradual- 
ly decreasing in diameter outwardly, clothed with conspicuous 
slender setae, those at the apex only a little stouter. Aedeagus 
small, relatively slender. A single gonapophysis, the tip of 
which is bent ventrad toward the aedeagus. Lateral process 
with the apex evenly rounded. 
Habitat. — Kansas. 
Holotype, cf, Lawrence, Douglas Co., altitude 900 feet, 
August 1, 1918 (C. P. Alexander). 
Allotopotype, 9 , July 16, 1918. 
Paratopotypes, 10 c? 9 , July 16-August 1, 1918. 
Type in the writer’s collection. 
This is the species (Kansas material only) discussed in 
earlier papers by the writer as being D. winnemana Alex. (Ent. 
News, 30: 19-21; 1919 — Pomona Journ. Ent. and Z 00 L, 11: 
67-74; 1919— Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Mem. 38: 829-830; 
1920). 
