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Psyche 
[March 
TWO NEW SPECIES OF FUNGUS GNATS OF THE 
GENUS APEMON 
By Charles W. Johnson 
Boston Society of Natural History 
Early in June, 1930, in company with Mr. Stuart K. 
Harris, a trip was made to Storrs, Connecticut. While 
collecting along the Willimantic River, a handsome speci- 
men of a fungus gnat, representing a new species of 
Apemon, was taken. For some time I have not been satis- 
fied with the determination of the eastern specimens re- 
ferred to Apemon maudse Coq., although one female from 
Franconia, N. H., was determined by the author of the 
species. I therefore take this opportunity to correct this 
error. 
Apemon similis sp. nov. 
A. maudse Johnson (not Coquillett) Fauna of New Eng- 
land, List of Diptera, p. 77, 1925. 
Head and antennae black, with the under side of the first 
and second antennal joints yellow, palpi yellow with a black 
spot on the upper side of the second joint. Thorax shiny 
black, with subdorsal and lateral rows of fine yellow hairs, 
a triangle back of the humerus and dorso-pleural suture 
yellowish, scutellum and pleura black. First and second 
abdominal segments entirely black, the others reddish, the 
third and last segments having a blackish posterior mar- 
gin. In the males only the fourth segment is reddish in 
one, and in another (Holotype) the base of the third and 
fifth segments are also reddish. Femora bright yellow with 
only a small black spot at the base of the posterior coxae 
