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Before me is a female from Highrolls, New Mexico, June 

 3, 1902, which is probably this species, but its condition is not 

 good enough for critical study. 



Pseudogeron formosa sp. nov. 



9 , Black, frontal and facial orbits, palpi, halteres, hind margins of 

 dorsal abdominal segments and entire venter, trochanters, bases and 

 apices of fore and middle femora and tibiae, and basal veins of wings, 

 yellow. Opake : head and thorax densely cinereous, frons and face 

 with broad black median stripe; occiput brownish medianly. Mesono- 

 tum with a broad and two narrow median brown stripes. Scutellum 

 with a median brown spot. Dorsal abdominal segments opake velvety 

 black with hind margins yellow. Legs more or less cinereous. 



Bare or nearly so. Proboscis as long as head and thorax together; 

 palpi very short. First and second antennal joints subequal ; third, 

 one and one-half times as long as first and second, three times as long 

 as broad, with greater width beyond middle. Second vein ending be- 

 yond middle of second submarginal ; latter at least four times as long 

 as broad. Small c. v. near base of discal, opposite basal c. v. ; post. c. 

 v. straight. Length, 2 mm. 



Holotype 9 , Alamogordo, New Mexico, June 26, 1902. 

 Type No. 6083. 



Paratype i 9 , topotypic. 



Pseudogeron mitis sp. nov. Figs. 1, 2. 



$ , Black ; halteres brown and yellow ; hind margins of abdominal 

 segments yellow; basal veins of wings pale. 



Opake, mesonotum and scutellum more or less shining. Frons, face 

 and lower occiput densely cinereous. Mesonotum with two well- 

 separated median stripes and broad lateral margins and pleurae dense- 

 ly cinereous, scutellum with cinereous margin. Abdomen densely cin- 

 ereous with bases of segments more or less opake to subopake, black. 

 Legs sparsely cinereous. All pile white. 



Pilose. First antennal joint nearly twice as long as second ; third, 

 one and one-half times as long as first and second, three times as long 

 as broad, with greatest width near apex. Proboscis as long as head ; 

 palpi half as long. Second vein ending opposite middle of second sub- 

 marginal ; latter three times as long as broad ; small c. v. before middle 

 of discal cell and beyond basal c. v. ; post. c. v. straight. 



9 . Head entirely cinereous. Palpi slightly shorter. Thorax cinereous ; 

 mesonotum with two fine median stripes anteriorly and large spot lat- 

 erally interrupted at suture, another small supraalar spot, all subopake 

 black. Scutellum immaculate. Legs more densly coated. Second sub- 

 marginal cell slightly longer. Length, $ , 9 , 3.0-3.8 mm. 



