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wholly except tip, silvery cinereous ; macrochaetse weak and more or less 

 bristle-like, first segment with a median marginal pair, second with a 

 median discal and marginal pair, third with a median discal pair and a 

 marginal row, anal with a marginal and two discal rows. Legs blackish, 

 femora more or less brown, claws and pulvilli but little elongate. Wings 

 grayish-hyaline, very faintly tawny at base, veins brownish ; tegulse 

 smoky yellowish-gray ; balteres rufous, knobs flesh-coloured. 



Length of body, 53/^ mm.; of wing, 43^ mm. 



Described from one specimen : N. Y. (Comstock). 



Phyto senilis, n. sp., $ . 



Eyes brown ; frontal vitta velvet-blackish ; sides of front black, more 

 or less silvery-pollinose ; face and cheeks blackish, silvery-pollinose ; 

 antennas and arista blackish, first two antennal joints rufous, sometimes 

 also base of third ; third joint hardly one and one-half times as long as 

 second ; proboscis brown, palpi yellow ; occiput blackish, black-hairy. 

 Thorax and scutellum shining black, with an opaque more or less distinct 

 median pair of vittse lost at suture. Abdomen black, hairy ; first three 

 segments with a marginal row of macrochaetae, anal cjegment tipped with 

 weaker ones ; hypopygium rather exserted. Legs black, femora hairy, 

 tibiae bristly, claws and pulvilli elongate, pulvilli tawny fuscous. Wings 

 grayish-hyaline, basal portions and veins pale tawny ; costal border of 

 wing swollen on second costal cell, costa drawn in at termination of 

 auxiliary vein ; tegulae whitish, margins yellow; halteres blackish. 



Length of body, 63^ mm.; of wing, 53^ mm. 



Described from one specimen ; N. Y. (Comstock). 

 Macquartia johnsoiii, n. sp., $ . 



Eyes light brown, rather thickly hairy ; frontal vitta black, about one- 

 third width of front, narrowing behind as front grows narrower, the front 

 about one-third width of head before ; frontal bristles strong, not descending 

 below base of antennae, three posterior pairs directed backward, decussate 

 except second pair divergent, others directed forward and decussate ; two 

 orbital bristles ; vertex golden ; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery- 

 white, not hairy nor bristly ; facial ridges bare, vibrissas strong, decussate, 

 inserted on oral margin ; antennse blackish, first two joints and base of 

 third rufous, third joint about two and a half times as long as second ; 

 arista blackish, pubescent basally ; proboscis blackish, labella and palpi 

 rufous yellow ; occiput silvery or brassy pollinose, golden above, thickly 

 gray hairy. Thorax brassy-golden pollinose, with two median vittae which 



