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from their base. The bristles upon the costal margin of the wing are 

 unu-^ually long. 



Length of body, 1.2 mm.; of wing, i mm. 



Brookings, South Dakota. 



Four $ and one ^ specimen, reared from Ciinbex americana, Leach. 

 Dates of emerging, June i, 2 and 8. 

 Phora lugger i, n. sp. 



Head brownish black, front very broad, at the lower border with two 

 small, widely divergent bristles arising a little below the edge of the front. 

 Antennae and palpi brownish-yellow, the former with a yellow bristle, the 

 latter with stiff black ones. Thorax brownish-black, with few and small 

 bristles. Abdomen more or less yellowish at base above, the remainder 

 brownish-black, the seventh segment long and tapering. Wings hyaline, 

 the heavy veins yellow, the second hairy on the upper side to the point 

 of division, which is near the end, the two branches so little divergent as 

 hardly to be made out with a simple lens. First light vein strongly bowed 

 at base, straight for the remaining two-thirds of its course, ending at the 

 apex. Halteres wholly yellow. Legs wholly yellow ; the front tibiae with 

 a bristle on the outer side below the knee, the middle and hind tibiae with 

 two each in the same situation. Middle and hind tibite with spurs at 

 apex. 



Length of body, 2.2 to 2.6 mm.; of wing, 2.5 to 3 mm. 

 Two female specimens from St. Paul, Minn. (Lugger). 

 In the other three new species the second heavy vein is bare, except 

 a single fine bristle near its base. 



Fig. 4. 

 Front of Phora luggeri, female. 



FiG. ■;. 

 Front of Phora miniita, female, 



