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Eleodiphaga caffreyi new species. 



Length 9 mm. male. Black, subshining; wings milky, nearly opaque; 

 veins black. Front, face, cheeks and occiput black, thinly pruinose, with 

 grayish pollen. Vitta brownish. Antennae and aristae black, palpi red- 

 dish. Postocellar pair of macrochaetae present. Thorax black, thinly 

 grayish pollinose, two pairs of indistinct vittae present, postsutural dorso- 

 central bristles three, stepnopleurals four or more, pleurae black, thinly 

 whitish pruinose. Scutellum black, bearing three pairs of marginals and 

 an apical pair. Abdomen ovate, conical, black, shining, entirely desti- 

 tute of pollen or spots. Median discal and marginal macrochaetae on all 

 segments excepting the first which bears neither. Venter black, hypo- 

 pygium retracted but visible, shining black. Middle tibiae bearing one 

 weak and two strong macrochaetae on front side toward the middle. Legs 

 black including coxae, squamae opaque white. 



Described from two male specimens, one reared from material 

 collected by D. J. Caffrey of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, at 

 Maxwell, New Mexico, (elevation 6,500 feet) and in honor of 

 whom the species is named. The specimen emerged from an 

 adult of Eleodes extricata Say. The other specimen was reared 

 from material collected by V. L. Wildermuth, at Prescott, Ari- 

 zona, and emerged from an adult of Eleodes obsolete! , Say. 



Eleodiphaga pollinosa new species. 



Length 9 mm. Similar structurally to the foregoing species, differing 

 as follows: slightly mdre robust, the front (pi. 5, figs. 3-4) produced not 

 quite so much, eyes longer, antennar somewhat more slender, arista a little 

 shorter. The palpi yellow and rather small. First two joints of antennae 

 yellowish red, third joint brownish, entire head more thickly pollinose. 

 Thorax and scutellum opaque, whitish pollinose, five, dorsal vittae plainly 

 visible, the middle one obsolete cephalad of the transverse suture. 



Dorsocentral macrochaetae four, acrostichals strong and in four pairs, 

 sternopleurals four or more.- Abdomen robust, ovate, first three segments 

 black, the basal two-thirds silver} 7 pollinose, the margins shining, fourth 

 segment orange yellow, thinly silvery pollinose at base. First segment 

 without median macrochaetae, the intermediate segments with weak dis- 

 cals and marginals, fourth segment bearing only weak bristles on its disc 

 and the marginals also rather weak. Legs black, claws short, hind tibiae 

 subciliate, middle tibiae bearing a single macrochaeta on front side near 

 the middle. Wings milky hyaline, veins blackish, third vein bearing three 

 weak bristles at its base. Tip of both wings broken off inholotype about, 

 opposite the hind crossvein, remains of wings very similar to E. caffreyii 



Described from a single male specimen reared from an adult 

 of Eleodes hispilabrus Say, collected at Maxwell, New Mexico, 

 by D. J. Caffrey. 



