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brown dorsal stripe extending to the suture, with two black points on 
each side in front, a smaller one back of the humerus and one on each 
side of the dorsal stripe near the middle; beyond the suture are tw^o 
wide subdorsal lines, with a small spot above the base of the Aving; 
metathorax w^ith a narrow dorsal line; pleurae gray with a black 
longitudinal line. Abdomen yellowish, with wide blackish bands 
occupying nearly the posterior half of each segment; venter and ovi- 
positor yellowish. Legs black, coxae and basal half of the anterior 
and two thirds of the middle and posterior femora light yellow. Hal- 
teres yellow, knobs brown. 
Wings hyaline, maculated with black as follows: five large spots 
along the costal margin, the first at the humeral cross-vein extending 
into the basal portions of both the first and the second basal cells; the 
second midway between this spot and the one at the origin of the radial 
sector, both of these spots extending almost to the median vein; the 
fourth spot is at the end of the subcosta and extends nearly across the 
submarginal cell; the fifth spot at the end of the radius Rj extends 
almost across the marginal ceF; there are also cloudings at the origin 
of the branches of the radial and median veins, along all the cross- 
veins at the middle of the cubitus, and near the end of the second anal 
vein. Length, 9 mm. 
Six specimens: t}^:)e, Cohasset, ^Massachusetts, July 10, 1907 (Owen 
Bryant) in New England collection, Boston society of natural history; 
other specimens collected June 20, July 6, 12, and 20. A specimen 
was also taken by the WTiter at Dover, New Jersey, June 25, 1892. 
This species is remarkable from the fact that the female has such 
long pectinations on the fiagelhmi. It will be interesting to know to 
what extent this feature is developed in the male. 
Geranomyia distincta Doane. 
Two specimens collected by Mr. Erich Daecke, at Alanumuskin, 
New Jersey, June 23, 1902, agree in every respect with the descrip- 
tion of this species, except that the discal cell is closed. I am inclined 
to think that this is normal, and that the single specimen from New 
Bedford, Massachusetts, on which the species is based, is an anomaly. 
