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round, black, fringed with black hairs, inner appendages shining 

 black. 



Coxae black, with white pollen; fore coxae with yellow pollen and 

 black hairs and bristles on the front surface; femora greenish black 

 with white pollen, the extreme tips yellow; fore tibiae pale yellow with 

 white pollen, much flattened .on the distal two thirds (Fig. 3), 

 inner edge of the flattened portion black and densely fringed with 

 flattened, black bristles, near the base a more or less distinct brown 

 ring; middle tibiae more or less yellow towards the base, sometimes 

 mostly black; hind tibiae and tarsi black; middle tarsi somewhat 

 yellowish at base: fore tarsi with the first joint mostly yellow, the 

 following joints brown, last tarsal joint as figured (Fig. 4), claw 

 with a very small tooth at base which would be difficult to see if the 

 claw was not in a favorable position. 



Halteres reddish yellow; tegulae pale yellow with black cilia. Wings 

 grayish hyaline, slightly darker between the second and third veins; 

 tips of the third and fourth veins nearer together than in the other 

 eastern species, about as in T. olympiac Aid. 



9 As in the male except that the face is wider; arista plane, nearly 

 as long as the face; pollen of the face and fore coxae white; fore 

 tibiae plane, rather stout, yellowish, more brown towards the tip, with 

 three large bristles on the inner and five on the outer surface (in one 

 specimen there is an extra bristle on the inner side of one tibia) ; 

 ovipositor black. 



My specimens were taken by Mr. Harbeck at Manahawkin, 

 New Jersey, July 3Oth. 



1 publish this as I cannot find any record of Mr. Coquillett's 

 describing it, and probably it is only a manuscript name. I 

 am using the name he gave so as to save confusion, as this 

 species has gone into several collections under this name. 



Paraclius nigrocaudatus sp. nov. 



<J Length 3 mm. A blackish species with black legs. Face very 

 narrow below; antennae black, third joint rather large, oval. 



Thorax and abdomen dark green, last segment of the latter cop- 

 pery; hypopygium small, black, its lamellae very large, nearly as 

 long as the hypopygium, half as wide as long, black, fringed with long 

 black hairs on the edge next the venter. 



Legs wholly black; fore tibiae with two rather large bristles; middle 

 tibiae with five or six, regularly placed, prominent bristles on the up- 

 per front edge; hind tibiae thickened with stout bristles. 



Teeular pn!c yellow with black cilia: knob of the halteres yellow, 

 stem darker. YYimvs strongly tinged with brown anteriorly, more 



