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aa Blackish or gray species, at most with abdomen more or less rufous. 

 / Wings unmarked. 



m Body black, wings yellow 



LONGIPENNIS F. (Eu. & N. A.) 



mm Body cinereous, opaque ; wings lutescent 



^. QUADRILINEATA Lw. (Pa.) 



mmin Thorax slate-colored, abdomen dilute rufous ; front 



white fasciate lupulina F. (Eu. & N. A.) 



// Wings spotted. 



Body opaque ; head, thorax, and scutellum cine- 

 reous, with black dots and spots 



STICTICA Lw. (D. C.) 



Note. — Sapromyza apta. Walker, is described from Mexico, in the 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, Vol. V., p. 321. I did not have 

 access to this paper. 

 Sapromyza ocellaris, n. sp. 



Yellowish rufous. Eyes brown ; face, front, cheeks, and occiput 

 entirely light rufous yellow, except the slightly elongate round black spot 

 on vertex enclosing the ocelli ; two pairs of ocellar bristles, the posterior pair 

 decussate and very slightly directed backward, the anterior pair a little 

 divergent and very strongly directed forward ; four frontal bristles on 

 each side, posterior one on vertical margin near orbit directed backward, 

 second one the longest and directed backward, as is also the next or third 

 one, fourth or anterior bristle (partly broken off, but apparently) directed 

 forward. Antennje erect (/. e., extended at right angle to plane of face), 

 rufous yellow, the apical portion of third joint black, extending on outer 

 lower edge nearly to base of joint ; first joint very small, third elongate, 

 narrowed towards the end, about three times as long as second, second 

 joint with some bristly hairs on lower anterior edge ; arista black, plumose 

 on upper side, but only short hairy below. Proboscis yellow, palpi 

 yellowish at base, but broadly black on tips. Thorax rufous yellow, with 

 a few black posteriorly inclined bristles on dorsum, and with very short 

 bristly black hairs ; scutellum concolorous with an apical non-decussate 

 pair of bristles, and a lateral bristle near base. Abdomen somewhat oval 

 heart-shaped, strongly vaulted, fully as wide at base as thorax, short, 

 rather sharply narrowed to apex, of a fulvous tinge, the anterior half of 

 segments 2 to 4 of shining rufous-brown changeable to fulvous in oblique 

 lights ; dorsum of abdomen with short black bristles, longer bristles on 



