Vol. XXVl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 453 



Paratypes. 9 $ , 18 9 , topotypical. 



Homotypes. 2 9 , Alamogordo, New Mexico. 



The yellow legs and the conspicuous second antennal joint 

 are the salient characters. There is some variation shown in 

 the above series in the color pattern. In the males the lateral 

 mesonotal margins may be entirely yellow and the femora quite 

 dark basally, especially the fore pair. In the females the ab- 

 dominal segments may be broadly black, especially the second, 

 and the yellow mesonotal quadrate spot sometimes wanting. 



Mythicomyia pictipes. 



1902. Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxv, 102. 



9 . Black, opake, gray pruinose, sparsely white pilose. Frons at anten- 

 nae, face, cheeks, oral margin, humeri, broad lateral mesonotal margins, 

 scutellum except discal spot and lateral margins, pleural spots, halteres, 

 apices of abdominal segments dilated laterally then becoming narrow 

 pg;iin just over on to the ventral lobes, then dilating to the ventral mar- 

 gins, venter and legs, except femora and tibiae above and tarsi apically, 

 yellow. 



Third antennal joint narrow, elongate, about four times as long as 

 broad ; style half as long as third joint. Abdominal spiracles prominent, 

 shining. Anal cell open. Length, 2.5 mm. 



$ . Unknown. 



Type. 9, Williams, Arizona, May 29, 1902 (H. S. Bar- 

 ber), [U. S. N. M. No. 6196]. 



Para type. i 9 , topotypical. 



I have seen a 9 Catal Springs, Arizona, Apr. 14 (Hubbard 

 & Schwarz), [U. S. N. M. Coll.] ; also a 9 , Alamogordo, New 

 Mexico, Apr. 20, 1902 (Rehn & Yiereck), [A. N. S. P. Coll.]. 



Mythicomyia tibialis. 



1896. Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xviii, 409. 



1902. Melander, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxviii, 338. 



$. Black, gray pruinose, especially beneath; white pilose, especially 

 long on occiput and abdomen. Frons, face, cheeks, humeri, notopleural 

 stripe, post-alar spot, halteres, hypopygium largely, knees and bases of 

 hind tarsi, yellow or whitish. 



Third antennal joint three times as long as broad, tapering to the 

 style; latter one-third length of third joint. Mesonotum opakc black 

 with a broad medial shining submetallic stripe. Abdomen opake black, 

 elongate, narrow. Hind tarsi with rounded notch as in armatu but with- 

 out tibial spur. Anal ci-11 open. Length, 3.5 mm. 



9 . Unknown. 



