C. W. Johnson.
Two New Species of Fungus Gnats of the Genus Apemon.
Psyche 38(1):22-24, 1931.

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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 Stows, 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 antenna1 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 cox= Pu&f 38:22-24 (193 1). hup Ytpsychu einclub nrgt18138-022 html



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and subshining, scutellum black with fine yellow hairs. Abdomen black, hairs on the first and second segments entirely black, the second segment about double the length of the first, the other segments with indistinct bands of yellow hairs at the base of each segment, the anterior an- gles of the fourth segment and the ventral surface of the fourth and fifth segments brownish. Genitalia black. Coxae and femora bright yellow, a small black spot at the base of the middle and posterior cox= and on the under side of the tips of all the trochanters, tibiae and tarsi dark brownish, becoming black on the outer half of the tarsi, tibia1 spurs yellow, halters yellow. Wings with the basal two-thirds hyaline, yellowish at the base, the rest of the wing deep black, which extends along the anterior from forks of the radius to beyond the end of R5 as shown in fig. 2. Length 9 mm.
One male collected on the west side of the Willimantic River near Mansfield Station, Conn., June 6, 1930. Type in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. This species was taken while collecting with Prof. Jerauld A. Manter of the Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., to whom I have dedicated this interesting species. A NEW NAME FOR NEBRIA VANDYKE1
DARLINGTON
It is my painful duty to announce that the name Nebria vandykei, used by me in Psyche 37, 1930, p. 104, for a species from Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier, is preoccupied. The preoccupying name is Nebria vandykei Banninger (Koleopterologische Rundschau 14, 1928, p. 5), which has been applied to a species quite different from mine, although from the same locality. I therefore propose the name Nebria paradisi, nom. nov., for the species described as N. vandykei Darlington. I am indebted to Dr. M. Ban- ninger and Dr. M. H. Hatch for calling my attention to Dr. Banninger's paper.




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