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black, the flagellum red, becoming a dark brown toward the tip, with 
moderately long verticels. Thorax brown, with three velvety black 
stripes ; the anterior portion of the broad dorsal stripe is divided by a 
narrow brown line, beyond the transverse suture the dorsal stripe 
consists of only a narrow black line extending to the suture; the 
subdorsal stripes are much shorter, beginning just back of the deep 
thoracic depressions, and dividing a short distance beyond the suture 
into four irregular spots; pleurae and coxae dark brown and covered 
with a hoary bloom; scutellum black, metathorax dark brown. Abdo- 
men yellow, the first, sixth, seventh, eighth segments, and the posterior 
and lateral margins of the other segments brown ; forceps dark brown 
and conspicuously hairy. Femora and tibiae yellow, tips of the fe- 
mora, and the base and tips of the tibiae and all the tarsi black; the 
anterior femora also have a broad middle band of black. Halteres 
yellow. Wings brown clouded with black, which forms three very con- 
spicuous spots : the first situated at base of the first and second basal 
cells ; the second at the base of the subcostal and extending across the 
middle of the first basal cell; the third near the middle of the sub- 
costal and extending to the outer end of the first basal, base of the 
marginal, and base of the first and second submarginal cells; be- 
tween the black spots are square yellow markings, base of the wing 
also yellow; the costal cell (except the base and outer end), end of the 
subcostal, center of the second basal cell, and of the cross-veins more 
or less clouded with black. Length, 27 mm. 
One d"', collected by Dr. Glover ]M. Allen, at Intervale, New Hamp- 
shire, June 17, 1904. Tyj:)e in the New England collection, Boston 
society of natural history. 
• Limnophila irrorata new species. 
PI. 16, fig. 17. 
? • — Head brown, covered with a yellowish pollen and with yellow 
hairs; basal joints of the antennae black, flagellum brown, palpi 
black. Thorax brown, with a fine dark, dorsal line; scutellum and 
metanotum light yellow when viewed from the anterior, pleurae dark 
brown. Abdomen brown with a lateral margin of brownish black, 
ovipositor reddish. Legs yellow, coxae brown, a broad apical band on 
the femora and tibiae black, tip of the metatarsi and tarsi brown. 
Halteres brown. Wings grayish, thickly maculated with dark brown; 
