154 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Chlorodexia, new genus. 



GenoUpe. Chlorodexia froggattii, new species. 



Differs from Chlorotachina Townsend (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washn. 

 XXX'III, 21) as follows: Kpistoma not nearly so produced, \ i- 

 l)rissa' not farther above oral margin than length of second antennal 

 joint . Checks wider in ]:)roportion to eye-height, ocellar and 

 frontal bristles stronger. I\ibcscence of eyes longer. Cubitus well 

 remoNcd from liind margin of wing, with long and strong stump; 

 hind cross-\ein much nearer to cubitus. Abdominal macrocha'ta? 

 longer and stronger, hairs of abdomen longer. 



Chlorodexia froggattii, new species. 



Length of body 11 mm.; of wing II mm. One male Merriwa, 

 N.S. \V. (\V. \V. Froggatt). 



Metallic green, with a rather thick coat of sil\cr>- pollen 

 oNcr all. Facial plate and cheek groo\es testaceous, the former 

 with an ochre-gold pollen; frontalia dark brown, first two anten- 

 nal joints dark rufous, third joint and arista brown, palpi dark 

 brown. Parafrontals dull golden pollinose, extending to cheek 

 grooves. Cheeks, occiput, thorax, scutellum and abdomen deep 

 metallic green, more or less thickly pollinose, four heavy blackish 

 \ittie on mesoscutum, abdomen showing more distinctly bright 

 green, venter and pleura? with Jess pollen. Legs dark brown, the 

 femora blackish. Wings nearly clear, tegula? tawny whitish. 



Ilolotypc—y^o. 19971 U. S. N. ]\L 



Named in honour of Mr. W. W. l-Voggatt. 



Protomiltogramma, new genus. 



Genotype, Protomiltogramma cincla, new species. 



Differs from Miltogramma as follows: Form more elongate, 

 subcylindrical. the abdomen subconical. VibrisscT strong, decus- 

 sate, well differentiated from the peristomal bristles. Third an- 

 tennal joint elongate, nearly three times as long as second. Cheeks 

 of female about as wide as margin of epistoma, those of male 

 much narrower. Scutellum enlarged, elongate and broad, especially 

 so in female, with about five or six marginal pairs of macrochactai 

 besides the apical pair. 



