14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. -[Jan., '03 Notes on Some Adirondack Dtptera Collected by Messrs. MacGillivray and Houghton. BY O. A. JOHANNSEN. The following note.s are published as supplementary to the " L,ist, etc.," given by Messrs. MacGillivray and Houghton in the preceding pages. All the flies were collected near Axton, N. Y., in June, 1901. Limnopliila macrocera Say ' Compl. Wr. ii, 46. A single male specimen in the collection agrees with Osten Sacken's description in Monographs, etc., iv, p. 294, in every particular excepting that it possesses two supernumerary cross-veins in the cell R., (Comst.) proximal of the cross-vein of cell R x in the one wing, and one supernumerary in the other. Pachyrrhina pedtiLCulata I.oew. Centur. iv, 24. $ . In the specimen in hand the sides of the first abdominal segment are yellow. Sciophila pulchra, n. sp. This fly differs from 5". subcteruiea Coq. in the following par-ticulars : The taorax has no bluish tinge, the mouth parts are black and not yellow, and the antennae are gray. Length, 10 mm. 9-Black, polished, with a brownish tin;;e. Palpi black, basal joint yellowish ; face, front and occiput shinirg bl;..ck. Antennas fuscous, with whitish, very short appressed pile. Dorsum of the thorax, scutellum, metanoturn and p'eurae polished black, sparsely covered with very short pale hairs ; the prothoracic spiracle, the dorso-pleural suture, and behind the root of the wings slightly yellowish. Abdomen shining black with a brownish tinge, especially at the incisures .md the venter. The hairs covering the abdomen are short and pale. Femora and coxa?, and ante-rior and middle tibiae are a deep yellow ; hind tibiae are slightly infuscated, all tarsi are brown, darker apically ; tips of the posterior femora and of all tibiae are brown. The middle femora have a short stout blunt spur on the under side near the apex ; the fore and i:ind tibiae each with one, the middle tibiae with two spurs. The wing v< nation resembles figure Sa, plate xix. in Winnertz' " Pilzmueckeu," the forking of the Cubitus (Comst.) being proximad of the cross vein, hut differs in that the small cross vein is neaier the base cf the sriall :ell ; R is straighter, and R. 4+5 is slightly curved forward so that the di-tal third is parallel with R :
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