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Color of the legs, thorax, abdomen, and pile as in the male. Wings also 

 the same. Fourth abdominal segment with a narrow, interrupted cross- 

 band. Length: Body about 11.5 mm., wing 9.5 mm. 



Mr. Banks has loaned me a male and female; on the latter the 

 above description of the female is based. Southern Pines, N. C., 

 March 29, 1910 (A. H. Manee). The male is smaller and some- 

 what darker than the type specimen. 



Galiprobola crawfordi, new species. 



All the femora blackish, yellowish at tips and bases; the cross-vein 

 joins the discal cell beyond the middle. 



Male: Frons reddish brown or yellowish, silvery pollinose along sides. 

 Antennae and arista reddish yellow; third joint nearly quadrate. Meso- 

 notum and scutellum shining metallic bronze, with abundant yellow pile ; 

 meso-pleurae and sternopleurae same as dorsum of thorax, the other parts 

 of the pleurae black and bare. Dorsum of abdomen the same color as dorsum 

 of thorax, with opaque bands; second segment with two opaque bands, the 

 first on anterior margin; third segment similar to the second; fourth 

 entirely aeneous. Fore and middle femora entirely black except tips; 

 hind femora black, yellow at tips and bases. Tibiae and first two tarsal 

 joints of the front and middle legs yellow, the other tarsal joints blackish. 

 Tibiae of hind legs reddish yellow with a little black; first two tarsal joints 

 yellowish, the rest blackish. Wings infuscated, quite pale posteriorly. 

 Anterior cross-veins joins discal cell a short distance beyond the middle. 

 Length: Body about 11.5-13 mm.; wing 10-11 mm. 



Female: Frons blackish, reddish brown above antennae, and with short 

 yellowish pile. Second and third abdominal segments banded as in male; 

 fourth segment with a band on anterior margin, partly concealed by the 

 overlapping of the third segment, and with a narrow interrupted band 

 across the middle. Coxae of all the legs black, trochanters reddish yellow; 

 bases and tips of femora of the front and middle legs yellow, the rest 

 blackish. Femora of hind legs largely reddish brown, tibiae reddish yel- 

 low; the tarsal joints darkening posteriorly. Wings as in the male. 

 Length: 11 mm.; wing 10 mm. 



Seattle, Washington, May 15, 1898 (Male type, female allo- 

 type, J. M. Aldrich). 



Type: Cat. No. 20289 U. S. N. M. 



Described from six specimens; paratypes from Potlatch, Idaho, 

 June 20, 1907, J. M. Aldrich Coll: and one specimen "Washington 

 Territory." (This latter specimen was part of Williston's type 

 material of Brachypalpus pulcher.) 



This species is closely allied to Caliprobola sorosis Will. Ad- 

 ditional characters that should aid in distinguishing them are as 

 follows: In sorosis the spiracle below the humerus is surrounded 



