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Type. cf 1 ; San Francisco, California, August 7, 1908, 

 (F. E. Blaisdell), [A. N. S. P. No. 6219]. Paratypes.2<?, 

 29 ; topotypical. 2cf, 69 ; same data, but collected May 

 27, 1908. 



Sapromyza vanduzeei new species. 



Very similar to blaisdelli, but upper part of face where it is dusted with 

 gray, antennae except upper margin of third joint, legs including coxae 

 but excepting fore tarsi are yellow. The ocellar bristles are stronger and 

 divergent; third antennal joint more slender; apical scutellur bristles 

 parallel. The second and third veins in the male are slightly diverging 

 apically. 



Type. cf ; McCloud, Siskyou County, California, July 

 23, 1918, (E. P. Van Duzee), [Cal. Acad. Sci., Coll.]. Para- 

 types. 4cf, i 9 ; topotypical. 



One male, Niles Canyon, California, July 10, 1916, (E. P. 

 Van Duzee), [Cal. Acad. Sci.], is probably conspecific, buc 

 the anterior part of frons is more conspicuously yellow. The 

 legs are more strongly marked with yellow, and the basal seg- 

 ments of the abdomen also are yellowish. There are no ap- 

 parent structural differences except in the diverging apical 

 scutellar bristles. 



Sapromyza discolor new species 



Similar in structure to the two preceding species but in color very dis- 

 tinct. Entirely yellow excepting the occiput above, a broad median mes- 

 onotal stripe attenuating anteriorly, and the entire abdomen, black. 

 There are also suggestions, posteriorly, of two dark sublateral mesonotal 

 stripes. x 



Type. c? ; San Francisco, California, July 7, 1908, (F. E. 

 Blaisdell), [A. N. S. P. No. 6218]. 



Mordella marginata Melsh., Bred From Fungus 



(Coleop.). 



By HARKY B. WKISS, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



This species, which is common throughout \C\v Jrrsry 

 from June to August, was bred from the sporophore of Len- 

 zites saepiaria Fries, collected on a piece of deciduous timber 



