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Mythicomyia atra new species. 



$ . Black, shining, but faintly pruinose in certain aspects, sparsely 

 white pilose. Frontal triangle, face, cheeks, humeri, narrow notopleu- 

 ral line, faint post-alar spot, narrow posterior margin of mesopleural, 

 halteres and spot below, narrow apices of abdominal segments and 

 knees, yellow. 



Slender species. Proboscis shorter than head. Third antennal joint 

 two and one-half times as long as second, hardly as broad, attenuated 

 apically; style one-third as long as third, cylindrical, pointed. Face 

 very short and cheeks very narrow. Legs slender with hind tibiae and 

 tarsi normal. Hypopygium inconspicuous. Anal cell broadly open and 

 anal vein evanescent. Length, 1.7 to 2.2 mm. 



9 . Unknown. 



Type. $ , Highrolls, New Mexico, May 31, 1902 [A. N. S. 

 P. No. 6099]. 



Homotypes. 2 $ , Alamogordo, New Mexico, April. 



Allied to tibialis, but the hind tarsi are not notched, and the 

 prunosity very faint. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists. 



The 28th annual meeting of the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists will be held at Columbus, Ohio, December 27 to 30, 

 1915. The sessions will be called to order in the Botany and Zoology 

 Hall at the Ohio State University. 



The opening session will be held at 1 130 P. M. Monday, December 

 27, when the annual reports and address of the President will be 

 delivered. On Monday evening the section on Apiary Inspection will 

 hold a meeting at 8 :oo P. M. 



The Association will continue its meetings on Tuesday at 10 :oo A. 

 M. and i -.30 P. M. ; on Wednesday at i 130 P. M., and the final session 

 will be held Thursday at 10 :oo A. M. The section on Horticultural 

 Inspection will hold its meeting on Tuesday at 8:00 P. M. and Wed- 

 nesday at 10:00 A. M. 



Hotel headquarters of the Association will be at the Southern Hotel 

 en South High St. 



A smoker will be tendered by the Ohio entomologists to all visiting 

 entomologists on Wednesday evening after the public address before 

 the Entomological Society of America. 



A large and varied program of papers will be presented and many 

 members have already signified their intention to attend the meeting. 

 A. F. BURGESS, Secretary. 



