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Psyche[December"When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble"

theme from Mr. Scudder's pen.
In the spring of 1897 Mr. Scudder made a proposal which led
to my spending the summer on the Pacific Coast in search of the
Orthoptera of that region. On the way out I stopped for a few
days in southern New Mexico with Professor Cockerell and collected there. The material thus secured, amounting to several
thousand specimens, was shared between us, the bulk of it remaining inmy collection, but was determined almost wholly by Mr.
Scudder, though the Xiphidiini and Tettiginae were worked up by
me at his special request. No report on the collection as a wholehas ever been prepared but upon it were based in large part a
series of short papers by Mr. Scudder during the late 90's, papers
which form a very considerable contribution to the knowledgeof the orthoptera of that region. The weekly, sometimes daily,
postal card bulletins which Mr. Scudder sent me during the process of identification, announcing progress and new discoveries,
remain among my treasured mementoes of a delightful and all
too brief association with one of the truly great men of his time.

SYNONYMICAL, AND OTHER NOTESTIPULID^ (DIPTERA).

ON

THE

By Charles P. Alexander,
Ithaca, N. Y.
The question as to whether, or not, the name Limnophila, Macquart (Nat. Hist. Dipt., Vol. I, p. 95, 1834) can be retained forthe well-known genus of crane-flies, has faced every student of
Tipulidce since the time of Rondani. Rondani in his "Prodromus
Dipterol. Italicse" (Corrigenda, IV, 1861) stated that this genericname was preoccupied in the Mollusca and proposed the newname, Limnomya.
A careful study of conchological literature failed to find any
mention of a genvs Limnophila, but constant reference to a suborder of that name. G. W. Tryon, Jr., "Structural and Systematic1911]

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Conchology" (Vol. Ill, p. 92, 1884), gives Limnophila, Hartmann, as a synonym of the suborder Hygrophila, Ferrusac (order
Basommatophora) . Dr. Paul Fischer in his great work, "Manuelde Conchyhologie et de Paleontologie Conchyologique (Paris,
1887, p. 503) concerning the suborder Hygrophila, states that thesuborder Limnophila is a synonym.
It is, of course, possible that a genus Limnophila was erected in
the Mollusca in 1828, in which case the name of the Tipulid genus
would become Limnomya, Rond., this being the first term applied
to the genus as a whole, although the sub-genera Elceophila, Rondani ('56); Lasiomastex, O.S. ('60); Prionolabis, O.S. ('60); Dactylolabis, O.S. ('60) and Dicranophragma, O.S. ('60) were erected
before this genus. One, Idioptera, Macq. (Nat. Hist. Dipt., I,
p. 94) was proposed even before Limnophila. However, thesenames are used by many authorities as full genera, and by others
as sub-genera, all applying to groups of species contained in theold genus Limnophila. If any change should have to be made,it would be better to use the name which first covers the genus asa whole.
If there is no genus Limnophila in the Mollusca prior to 1834,
then the Tipulid name is perfectly valid because that section of
the rules of nomenclature that deals with synonymy decrees that"the laws of synonymy appertain only to genera, subgenera,
species and sub-species" and consequently the Suborder Limnophila isoutside the field.
The late Mr. D. W. Coquillet on p. 590 of his invaluable publication, "The Type species of the North American genera of Diptera"^ has placed the American species of the genus Limnophila in
Bigot's genus Phylidorea (Bigot, Synoptic Table, etc., p. 456). ^ As
explained by Osten Sacken (Studies on Tipulidse, pt. II, p. 234,235)^ the genus Phylidorea is merely a synonymof Limnophila.

Bigot, 1. c, p. 456, states that " the species of Limnophila,
Macq., provided with a discal cell are my true Tipulidce and receive the new generic name, Phylidorea, Bigot." But Osten
Sacken, 1. c, p. 235, remarks, "what species Mr. Bigot places in»Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. Vol. 37, pp. 499-647 (1910).
'Bigot.
Ann. Soc. Entom., France, pp. 447-482 (1854).
•Osten Sacken, C. R., Berliner Entom. Zeitschr., Bd. XXXI, Heit II, pp. 163-242 (1887).

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paper and I am not aware of the existence of any such species."
Consequently, the species in the New World, as well as the Old,should be known as Limnophila, but it would be better to accept
the prior name Petaurista (Meigen, 1800) as the tribal name, i. e.,
Petauristini instead of Limnophilini.
There are a few corrections in synonymy to be made. Tipula
costalis. Say of the Eastern United States (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, III, 23.2, 1823) is preoccupied by Macromastix costalis, Swed. of Australia. {Tipula costalis, Swederus; Act. Holm,
286, 1787.) No other name seems to have been applied to the
costalis of Say, and I propose the name Tipula sayi, nom. nov.
(non Oropeza sayi, Johns). Dicranomyia brunnea, Grimshaw, ofHawaii (Fauna Hawaiiensis, HI, 1901) is preoccupied by D.
brunnea Doane (Eastern United States) (Jour. New York Ent.
Soc. VIII, 1900) and its describer should propose a new name for
the Hawaiian insect. In the "Type-species of Am. Dipt.," thelate Mr. D. W. Coquillet states that the type of Holorusia, Loew,is grandis, Bergr. Bergroth (Ent. Tidskr, IX, 1888) proposed
the name grandis to replace rubiginosa, preoc, on the grounds
that Holorusia is not distinct from Tipula. If the genus Holorusia isto be considered as distinct as is done by Mr. Coquillet,
the type is still rubiginosa, Loew, and not grandis, Bergr.
Descriptionsof NewSpecies,In the description of the following species of crane-flies, I haveadopted many of the suggestions proposed by Mr. R. A. Muttkowski in his splendid article "The Composition of Taxonomic
Papers." (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., June, 1911; Vol. II, No. 2, pp.
194-217). Concerning the thoracic structure, the terminology given
by Mr. R. E. Snodgrass, "The Thorax of Insects and the Articulation of the Wings" (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVI, pp. 568, 569;
pi. 62; figs. 173, 174; pi. 63, figs. 175-178) is largely used. The
best paper on crane-fly genitalia, is, without question, that by
Mr. Snodgrass on "The Hypopygium of Tipulidcp." (Trans. Am.
Ent. Soc, XXX, June, 1904; pp. 179-236, pi. VIII, XVIII.) The
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but it would be desirable could we have a common terminology
for all of the Dipterous families, if not for all the orders of insects.
I wish to thank Dr. A. D. MacGillivary, of Illinois, for advise
on certain points; Dr. J. C. Bradley, for the Georgia material
herein included, and, especially. Dr. J. G. Needham for kindadvice and assistance upon many points.
Limnophila similis sp. nov.
Male. Dark brownish-black; L. 7.5 mm.; wing, 9 mm. Rostrum brownish-yellow, darker at the tip; palpi dark brownish-black; front, vertex and gense, lightgray. Antennae: first segment elongated, cylindrical, as long as segments two,
three and four combined, brown; second segment, globular, reddish-brown; remaining segments generally similar to one another in shape, cylindrical, armed withlong black verticils and clothed with a fine yellow pubescence.
Thorax: Pronotum, dark brown with a fine pubescence; mesonotum: anterior
portion of the prsescutum, glabrous, shining black; remainder with a yellowishbrown bloom; a regular V-shaped row of yellowish-brown hairs, extending from thecaudal end of the naked patch described above, posteriorly to near the transverse
suture; scutum, scutellum and postnotum with a gray bloom, the scutum with
scattered hairs; scutellum with a transverse row of yellowish-hairs along
the caudal margin. Metanotum gray. The pleurae dull yellowish-brown; venter,pale yellow, its sides with a gray bloom. Halteres, pale yellow, the knobs darker,
brown. Legs: coxae, bright yellow; femora, yellow, tipped with brown; tibiae,brownish-yellow, extreme tip darker; metatarsus yellowish-brown, the remainderof the tarsi, dark brown.
Abdomen, dark brown, densely covered with long, pale brown hairs, the genital
segment brighter brown. Genitalia: the pleura is moderately long, thickly armed
with very long dark brown hairs; these hairs as long as the apical appendages.
The dorsal apical appendage, pointing meso-caudad, chitinized at the tip, toothed;the ventral appendage thickened at the base, the slender apical portion short, directed caudad. (See fig. 8.)
Wings of a whitish color; cells C and Sc tinged with yellow; stigma, brown;basal deflection of R4 + 6, base of Rg and the deflection of Cui with brown clouds;
distal portion of cells 2d Ri, R2, R3 and R5, tinged with darker. Venation: almost exactly as in L. adusta, O.S., both agreeing in the following essentials: Rsvery short, arcuated at its origin; R3 rather short, oblique, with the radial crossvein near its middle and at the tip of Rr, 2d Anal similar in the two species. (Seefig. 4.)
Female. Similar to the male; L. 8-9 mm.; w. 10-10.5 mm. Generally similar
to the male, but the mesothoracic scutum and scutellum are covered with a yellowish-brown bloom; postnotum with a gray bloom; abdomen pale yellow withlight brown apical rings on the segments; abdomen beneath, light yellow withbrown caudal margins to the segments.

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Limnophila similis is allied to adusta, O.S., but is much darker incoloration, dark brown, not red or yellow. In adusta, the ventral
apical appendage of the male hypopygium (see fig. 9) is thickened on both sides of the base; in similis (see fig. 8) the thickening is all on one side (cephalic margin in the normal position ofrest) . The slender portion of this appendage is much longer than
the thickened base in adusta, shorter than this base in similis.
The dorsal appendage in adusta is long, slender, thickened on the
inner margin of the chitinized tooth, in similis much shorter. The
gonapophyses are much smaller in similis than in adusta, but have
not yet been studied critically.
'10.
Holotype: male; Johnstown, N. Y. (Hale's Creek) June 10,
Allotype: female;with the type.

Para-type: female; Johnstown, N. Y., June 26, '10.
Swept from vegetation near water; Coll. C. P. Alexander.
Limnophila noveboracensis sp. nov.
Male and female. Brownish-yellow; legs, yellow; L. male, 5.2-5.8 mm. Female
7-8 mm.; W. male, 6.5 mm.; female, 7-7.5 mm.
Rostrum, light brown; palpi ^vith numerous long hairs, brown; front and vertex yellow with a light gray bloom, producing a silvery effect. Antennae: 1st segment, elongate, cylindrical; 2d, more globular, both segments brown, armed with
scattered black hairs; segments of the flagellum becoming gradually more and moreelongated and slender, yellowish-brown, with a rather short pubescence and longscattered verticils. Front, vertex and the prolonged occiput, thickly beset withlong, brown hairs.
Thorax: surface opaque; Pronotum, brownish-yellow; the neck with a graypubescence. Mesothorax: prsescutum, yellowish-brown; a distinct humeral piton the latero-anterior margin, brownish-black; no distinct thoracic stripes; aconspicuous double dot near the cephalic margin of the prsescutum. Remainder ofthe mesothoracic and the metathoracic dorsums, light brownish yellow. Pleurae
pale brownish-yellow. Halteres pale, the distal portion of the knob darker. Legs:coxae yellow; femora and tibiae pale yellow, the extreme tips barely darker; tarsal
segments excepting the metatarsus, yellowish-brown.
Abdomen hairy, brownish above, paler, yellowish, beneath; genitalia, light.
Wings hyaline, or nearly so; stigma indistinct; veins pale brown. Venation:
Sc long, extending almost to the inner margin of cell Rs. Sci about twice the lengthof Sc2. R long, the cross-vein r far from its tip, at least twice its own length. Rs
long, gently arcuated at its origin; petiole of cell R2, short, from one-fourth to twofifths as long as vein R2; Rs long, sinuate; R4 + 6 between Rs and the cross-vein
r-m, longer than this cross-vein.
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Basal deflection of Cui anterior to the middle of cell 1st M2. R2+3, so arcuatedthat Rs is not in a direct line with R3. 2d Anal vein curved sharply inward at its
tip. Cell R3 is decidedly anterior to cell Rs and about on a level with cell 1st Mj.
Ml + 2 fused to the wing-margin, eliminating cell Mi. (See fig. 3.)

Limnophila noveboracensis comes in the same category withlenta, O.S., quadrata, O.S.; nigrilinea, Doane and antennata, Coq.
in that it lacks cell M^.
It differs from these species as follows:
L. lenta, O.S. (fig. 1) (E. U. S.) has: Sci, slightly longer thanSc2; petiole of cell R2 (1^2+3) rather long, two thirds the length of
R2; cross- vein r usually just beyond the fork; vein R2 short, oblique; Kgalmost on a straight line with II3; cells R3, R5 and 1st
M2 all on a level; distal portion of vein M3 rarely longer than cell
1st M2; Rg usually short, arcuated at origin; coloration, ochraceous-yellow.
L. quadrata, O.S. (fig. 2) (E. U. S.) has: Sc2 longer than Sc^;petiole of cell R2 (R2+3) nearly as long as R2; the cross- vein r inserted just beyond the fork; vein R2 short, oblique; Rg in a straightline with R3; cells R3, R5 and 1st M2 all on a level; distal portionof vein M3 about as long as cell 1st M2; Rg long, gently arcuatednear its origin; coloration yello^ash-gray.
L. nigrilinea, Doane (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VIII, p. 190) (W.
U. S.; Olympia, Wash.) has: Petiole of cell R2 one and one half
the length of the basal deflection of Cui; cross- vein r slightly removed from tip of Rj; cell R3 slightly anterior to cell R5; generalcolor yellow, with a black dorsal band. L. (female) 12 mm. ; distal
portion of wings pubescent.
L. antennata, Coq. (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, pp. 58, 59)(W. Am.; Brit. Col.) has: Petiole of cell R2 obliterated or nearlyso; cross-vein r at the tip of R^; cell R3 slightly anterior to cell
R5; general color black; antennae of the male long, reaching thebase of the 6th abdominal segment.
Although noveboracensis agrees, superficially, with lenta andquadrata, it belongs to a very different group of species. In all
respects except the presence of cell M^, this species is a typicalmember of the luteipennis group of the genus. The four species,
luteipennis, contempta, inornata and the present species, agree inpossessing the following group characters: Structure of the head,narrowed and prolonged behind;neck produced forewards to198

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the pronounced humeral pits, and the double dot on the mesothoracic prsescutum; venation; cell R3 longer than cell R5; vein
R3 arcuated; 2d A strongly incurved at tip, etc.
Holotype: male. Sacandaga Park (Fulton Co.), N. Y., along
the R. R. embankment, June 28, 1911.
Allotype: female; with the Holotype.
Para-types: 3, in the type-locality, June 21, '11.
Para-types: 10, in the type-locality, June 28, '11.
Para-types: 3, Coy Glen, Ithaca, N. Y.; July 11, '11.
Common on rank vegetation, usually near running water; Coll.
C. P. Alexander.
L. noveboracensis is common, and apparently widely distributedin the North. The type locality is in the Southern Adirondack
Mts. (N. Y.). The species is common about Ithaca, N. Y. (CoyGlen), and there are specimens in Dr. Needham's collection
labelled "Walnut Lake, Mich., July 8, 1906." It has probably been
confused with L. quadrata in collections. The figure in Dr. Needham's Report on the Crane-flies of New York (23d Rept. of theN. Y. State Entomol., pi. 18, fig. 6) is not quadrata but belongs tothis new species. The specimen of L. luteipennis, mentioned by
Osten Sacken (Monographs, etc., IV, p. 218) where he says *T
possess a specimen without petiolated (second) posterior cell inboth wings" may possibly belong to noveboracensis.
Limnophila (Prionolabis) simplex sp. nov.
Male. Dark brown; L. 11 mm.; w. 11.5 mm. Described from an alcoholic
specimen. Rostrum pale; palpi browTi; front, occiput and vertex, dark brown;
antennae, dark bro^-n.
Thorax: pronotum, dark brown. Mesonotum, prsescutum and scutum darkbrown, the scutellum lighter brown. Metanotum dark brown. Pleurae darkbrown. Halteres uniformly pale. Legs: coxae brown; trochanters brownishyellow; base of femora, brownish-yellow, gradually darker to the tip; tibiae, yellowish-brown, the tip suddenly darker; tarsi dark brown.
Abdomen: dorsum, light reddish-brown, the 8th segment rather darker; hypopygium, brown, the pleura medium-brown, paler mesally; apical appendages yellow with the tips chitinized, brownish-black. Genitalia: hypopygium, tergal
portion rather deeply notched, the notch obtuse, the sides produced posteriorly
into short blunt points; pleura, rather short, armed with long, numerous black
hairs. The apical appendages two, the ventral one produced posteriorly, elongate.

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toothed along the inner face of the tip; teeth relatively few, one tooth, near the
middle, relatively larger than those below it. The anterior, or dorsal apical appendage issimple, unarmed, projecting mesally, curved so that the tip projects
slightly caudad. The Anal tube is long, almost concealing the guard of the penis;
the second gonapophyses are long and slender; the guard of the penis is bent
strongly ventrad near its tip. (See fig. 10.)
Wings: light yellowish-gray, the cells all uniform in coloration; stigma rather
indistinct, gray; a pale gi"ay cloud at the base of Rs; pale clouds along R2+3, basal
deflection of R4 + 6, cross-vein m, deflection of Mi + 2, and along the basal deflectionof Cui; Cu tinged with brown. Venation as in Limnophila rufibasis, O.S. to which
this species is related.
This species belongs to the sub-genus Prionolabis, O.S., and is closely related toL. (P.) rufibasis, O.S. of the Eastern States. It differs in the following respects:
L. rufibasis has the costal and subcostal cells much richer yellow than the othercells of the wing; stigma clear-cut, dark brown; markings along the cord of thewing and along Cu, much darker. Base of the femora bright yellow, not tinged
with brown. The deciding difference lies in the shape of the anterior apical appendage of the male genitalia, which, in rufibasis (See fig. 11) is bifurcated with theventral arm toothed, whereas in simplex (see fig. 10), it is simple. The species, L.
munda, O.S., which is also referred to the_subgenus Prionolabis is very distinct fromeither of the above.

Holotype: male, Gainesville, Ga., April 2, 1911; Coll. J. C.
Bradley.
It is probable that some of Osten Sacken's specimens of rufibasis (Monographs, etc., IV, p. 226) belong to this new species, as
he says "the wings are more yellowish in the larger specimens andmore grayish in the smaller ones." The drawing of the genitalia(id., pi. IV, fig. 27) is highly diagrammatic.
Polymera georgiae sp. nov.
Male. Dark brownish black; L. 4.2-5 mm.; w. 5 mm., ant. 5.75 mm. Describedfrom alcoholic specimens.
Rostrum and palpi, light brown; front and vertex, dark brown; eyes, black, theommatidia large, few in number; antennae: first segment, short, round, brown; second
segment, rounded, brown; third, very elongated, cylindrical, brownish-yellow, thetip, pale, whitish; segment with short scattered hairs and a few long delicate ones;
segment 4 to 16, generally similar to one another in shape, elongate-cylindrical,
swollen near each end, the swellings armed with short, scattered hairs and on thethird to fifth segments with scanty long delicate ones; segments brown, pale at theends producing an annulated effect.
Thorax : pro-, meso-, and meta-nota, as well as the pleurae, dark brownish-black.
Halteres brownish-yellow, the knob large, darker. Legs: anterior pair, coxae
brown, trochanters light brown; femora, light brown, with a dark sub-apical ring.

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Psyche[Decemberthe extreme tip yellowish white; extreme base of the tibiae, yellowish white, remainder o{ tibiae, brown; tarsus light yellow, the base of the metatarsus rather
darker. Middle pair: femora brown, darkest before the tip; tip abruptly whitish
yellow; tibiae and tarsi as in fore legs. Posterior pair: coxae brown; femora
brown, with a darker subapical band; tip yellowish- white; base of tibia yellow;
remainder brown; tarsi, yellowish-white, the terminal segments somewhat darker.
Abdomen dark brownish-black with long conspicuous hairs.
Wings: grayish brown throughout; venation: quite similar to P. albitarsis.
Will. (Dipt. St. Vincent; P. 296, 297; PI. 10, fig. 71) (Copied in Needham, Craneflies (23d Rept. St. Ent. N. Y.; PI. 21, fig. 2) and Williston, Manual of N. Am.
Dipt. (1908); p. 85, fig. 28). However the longitudinal veins in the distal portion of the wing are much longer than there shown, the free portions of Ma and Cu,
longer, the basal deflection of Cui beyond the fork of M, not at it, etc. (See fig. 5.)

This species differs from P. albitarsis Will. (Is. St. Vincent), in
the conspicuous annulated antennae, darker color of the thorax
and other colorational differences. From the unsatisfactory description of P. fusca, Wied. (Brazil) (Wiedemann, Aussereuropaische zweifl. Inseckt, Vol. I, p. 58, pi. VI b, figs. 3 and 4) it
differs in the color of the antennae and feet, and, if the drawing isaccurate, in venation. P. obscura, Macq. is similar to fusca andconsidered a synonym by Kertesz. P. hirticornis, Fabr. (S.
Amefica) has white bands on the wings.
The genus is new to the Nearctic fauna, having been recorded,
hitherto, only from South America and the Lesser Antilles.
Holotype: male, St. Simon's Is., Ga., April-May, 1911. Coll.
J. C. Bradley.
Para-types: 2 males, with the holotype.
Ormosia

apicalis sp. nov.

Male.^ Yellow and brown; L. 4.5 mm.; w. 5.25 mm. Described from an alcohohc specimen.
Rostrum and palpi brown; front, vertex and occiput, yellowish-brown; antennae: 1st segment of the antennae, elongate, cylindrical; second globular; 3d to 8th
oval, generally similar to one another in shape; remainder elongated, the segments
covered with a short pubescence, and long, scattered hairs; antennae, pale yellowishwhite.
Thorax: Pronotum grayish- white. Mesonotiun: praescutum yellow with two
indistinct brown lines running forwards from the ends of the arms of the V-shaped
suture; these lines with numerous black hairs which meet in front of the suture;
an indistinct brown median line; scutum yellow with a row of hairs on either side
leading from the ends of the V-shaped suture toward the wing-roots; scutellum
whitish-yellow, thickly set with dark hairs; postnotum very pale, almost white.

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Metanotum yellow; pleurae whitish with a tinge of brown. Halteres, pale. Legs,
brownish-yellow throughout.
Abdomen, dark brown, pleurae somewhat paler; genital segment yellow, tinged
with brown in the apical half.
Wings: hyaline, the costal margin somewhat darker. A large, dark spot above
the base of the Rs, a second smrounds Scj and a third at the tip of Sci, extending
down over cross-vein r. The whole apical portion of the wing from the stigma
down to the median veins is blackish. Dark clouds on the basal deflection of Cuiand cross-vein r-m; base of wing between R and Cu dark; veins brown; deflection of Ml + 2, very pale. Venation (see fig. 6): Sc long, Sci ending at a point
slightly anterior to the cross- vein r. Scj remote from the tip of Sci, about midway
between that point and the base of Rs. Rs long, feebly arcuated. Cross-vein r
far back from the tip of R i and just beyond the fork of R2 + j. R2 + s longer than thebasal deflection of Cui. Cell 1st M2 closed. Basal deflection of Cui anterior to
the fork of M. (Most of the pubescence of the wing disc has become detached due
to its being in alcohol with other specimens.)

This species does not seem very closely related to any of thedescribed American forms. The three species with spots on bandson the wings, innocens, O.S., fascipennis, Zett., and nuhilus, O.S.
are quite distinct in that the spotted and banded effect is brought
about by dark hairs, and not by the color of the membrane itself,
as in apicalis. It agrees with innocens in the essential features ofvenation, closed cell 1st M2, divergent Anal veins, etc.
Holotype: male, Burton, Ga. (May 20, 1911); Coll. J. C.
Bradley.
Furcomyia monticola sp. no v.
Male and female. Light yellow and brown; L. male 6-6.5 mm.; female, 7.5-7.8
mm.; w. male, 6.5 mm.; female 7 mm.
Rostrum brownish-yellow; palpi brown, the first segment lighter colored.
Front and vertex, brown. Antennae: first segment, cylindrical, light yellow, witha few scattered black hairs; remaining segments rounded-oval, almost moniliform, brown.
Thorax: Dorsum light yellow, marked with brown. Pronotum, very lightbrown medially. Mesonotum: a straight band of brown beginning near the cephalic margin of the praescutum, running backward and expanding out over thecaudal portion of the sclerite, in the middle ending just before the V-shaped sutureon the sides running to the suture and meeting the mark on the scutum; scutumwith two lunate brown maiks on each side of the yellow median line; scutellum
largely brown; postnotum brown, yellow on the cephalic margin. Metanotum
brown. Pleurae clear light yellow, immarked. Halteres pale, knob slightly
darker.
Legs light yellow throughout, with numerous black hairs.
Abdomen: dorsum yellowish-brown, the joints of the sclerites darker. Ventral surface light yellow; genitalia brownish-yellow.
Genitalia of male.
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12, 13.) The ventral soft fleshy lobes, very large, resembling boxing gloves inshape, covered with scattered hairs pointing posteriorly. From its inner margin,
pointing inwards, is a slender arm, terminating in a stout chitinized tooth, armed
with denticulse along the cephalic margin; on the caudal margin of this arm, andpointing posteriorly, are two stout bristles. The dorsal arm is chitinized, rather
slender, the free portion short, curved, pointing cephalad. The guard of the penis,
when viewed from above, is almost straight, the second gonapophyses pointing
inwards. Viewed from the side, the penis-guard is strongly decurved ventrally,
with a protuberence beyond the middle on the ventral side; the second gonapophyses, conical, pointing ventrad and armed with numerous hairs at the tip.
Wings: hyaline; stigma light brown, distinct. Venation (see fig. 7); Sc moderately long, the fork at the origin of Rg, or (usually) somewhat beyond it. Sci,
from one to two times as long as Sc2. Cross-vein r at the tip of Ri. Deflection ofR«-l-6 about one half as long as Rs. Basal deflection of Cui at the inner end of cell
1st Mj.
Cross-vein m present, closing cell 1st Mi.
On some of the cotype males, the basal deflection of Cui is anterior to the forkof M.

This species comes nearest to F. moniliformis, Doane (Jour.
N. Y. Ent. Soc, 1900, p. 184, pi. VII, fig. 8) but differs in the following particulars: antennae and palpi brown; markings on thoracic dorsum very different, as well as decided differences in colorof legs, abdomen, wings, etc. Scj ends beyond the origin of Rg,
never before it; no pubescence in distal portions of the wings, etc.
The forceps of the male are notable and agree in some respects
with the brief description of this part in haeretica, O.S. (Monographs IV, p. 70.)
Holotype: male. Black Rock Mt. (Rabun Co.) Ga., alt. 3,000ft., May 24, '11. Coll. J. C. Bradley.
Allotype: female; with the holotype.
Para-types: 7 males, 1 female, with the holotype.
EXPLANATIONOF PLATE

1. Limnopkila lenta, O.S.; wing.
(Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 12, '10.)
2. Limnopkila quadrata, O.S.; wing. (Ithaca, N. Y., May 21, '11.)
3. Limnopkila noveboracensis sp. nov. Para-type; wing. (Ithaca, N. Y., July
11. '11.)
4. Limnopkila similis sp. nov. Para-type; wdng. (Johnstown, N. Y., June 26, '10.)
5. Polymera ^eor^ice sp. nov. Para-type No. 2, wing. (St. Simon's Is.; Ga., AprilMay, '11.)
6. Ormosia apiealis sp. nov. Holotype, wing.
(Burton, Ga., May 20, '11.)
7. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Para-type, wing. (Black Rock Mt., Ga., May
24, '11.)

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8. Limnophila similis sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia.

203(Johnstown, N. Y., June

10, '10.)
Pleura of the hypopygium; leftside; ventral aspect, d. dorsal apical append.;
V. ventral ap. app.
9. Limnophila adusta, O.S. Male genitalia. (Ithaca, N. Y., July 16, '11.)
As in No. 8 {similis).
10. Limnophila simplex sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia.
(Gainesville, Ga.,
April 2, '11.)
Pleura of the hypopygium; right side; dorsal aspect, p. posterior, or ventral
apical app.; a. anterior, or dorsal apical app.; g. 2d gonapophyses; h. hypopygium; w. anal tube; x. guard of the penis; y. pleura.
11. Limnophila rufihasis, O.S. Male genitalia. (Ithaca, N. Y., May 22, '11.)
As in No. 10 {simplex).
12. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia.
(Black Rock Mt.,
Ga., May 24, '11.)
Hypopygium, lateral aspect.
m. guard of the penis, j. 2d gonapophyses.
1. ventral apical app.
13. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia hypopygium;
dorsalaspect.
h. hypopygium; i. pleura; j. 2d gonapophyses; k. dorsal apical app.; 1. ventral apical app.; m. guard of the penis.

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Pheidole tisiphone sp. nov.
Soldier.
Length 5.6 mm.
Head large; from above subrectangular, longer than broad, a little broader infront than behind, with nearly straight sides and very feebly excised posteriorbroader and a short, shallow occipital groove; in profile truncated anteriorly, flattened above in front and feebly convex below, with a narrow and very deep scrobeon each side, running obliquely backward and downward just over the eye to theouter border of the gula and ending abruptly at the middle of the head. The edgesof the scrobes are sharp and parallel, the upper edges passing anteriorly into thefrontal carinae which are very widely separated. Frontal area small, deeply impressed, rounded behind. Frontal groove obsolete. Eyes small, about 1-6 thedistance from the anterior to the posterior border of the head. Clypeus short andvery convex, with a faint, median, longitudinal impression, and entire and deflected
1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, No. 51.