DIPTERA. 467 
Jurinia dichroma (p. 27). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Misantla (Godman). 
This species seems to be very nearly allied to J. apicalis, Jaenn., but differs in the 
frontal band being black instead of rufous. 
Jurinia adusta (p. 28). 
To the localities given, add :—MeExico, Orizaba, Tuxpan (coll. Bellardi), Cuernavaca, 
Atoyac, Rio Papagaio (Hf. H. Smith), N. Yucatan (Gawmer). 
Among the additional specimens seen there are four females belonging to the variety 
with ochraceous head, and three females with the front tarsi not dilated, these latter 
agreeing in other respects with the normal form. 
4, Jurinia nitidula. 
Jurinia nitidula, v. d. Wulp, Tijdschr. voor Ent. xxxv. p. 191°. 
Thorax cinereous, with blackish lines; scutellum and abdomen shining bluish-black ; antennal base and palpi 
rufous; legs black ; second and third abdominal segments only with marginal spines. 
Length 11-12 millim. 
Face and cheeks yellowish-white, the cheeks with hairs of the same colour; front yellowish-cinereous, in both 
sexes broader than the eyes; frontal band blackish, but with light grey reflections ; beard and pilosity of 
the front and the occiput pale yellow ; frontal bristles, in the male, on both sides in a double row and 
somewhat irregular; in the female the outer row represented by no more than three or four bristles. 
Basal joints of the antenne rufous; second joint bristly ; third joint black, as long as the second, rounded 
at the tip. Proboscis shining black; palpi pale rufous, thickened towards the end, with short black 
bristles. Thorax with a yellowish-cinereous tomentum, which anteriorly wholly hides the ground- 
colour and shows some black lines, the two median lines convergent towards the head; the thoracic 
dorsum has a pale yellow pile and regular rows of black macrochete. Scutellum with many spines, 
which anteriorly are shorter and erect, but on the hind margin are long and directed backward. 
Abdomen broad and convex, with black hairs and spines, the latter forming transverse rows at the hind 
margin of the second and third segments; on the anal segment several spines between the hairs. Legs 
with many bristles, those on the outside of the middle and hind tibie longer; front tarsi somewhat 
dilated in the female; foot-claws and pulvilli (elongate in the male) yellow, the claws black at the tip. 
Tegule reddish-brown. Wings with a brownish-grey tint; small cross-vein on the middle of the discal 
cell; apical cross-vein curved at its base and forming an acute angle with the fourth vein ; posterior 
cross-vein nearly straight. 
Hab. Mezxico1, Santiago Ixcuintla in Jalisco and Tepic (Schumann), R. Papagaio, 
Acaguizotla, Chilpancingo, Amula, Xucumanatlan, Omilteme, and Acapulco, all in 
Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Several specimens of each sex. 
5. Jurinia spinigera. 
| Jurinia spinigera, v. d. Wulp, Tijdschr. voor Ent. xxxv. p. 192°. 
Thorax and scutellum cinereous ; abdomen bluish-black, with spines over the whole surface ; antenne black, 
rufous at the base; legs black. 
Length 11 millim. 
