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observations on clymene and lecontei of which they were said to 



hybrids.* 



6. H. contigua Walker. 



The larva seems entirely unknown. By the rule of priority this 

 must be known &s fulvicosta with reversa as variety. The species 

 differs from colona only in the secondaries being white instead of 

 yellow, and these forms may not be specifically distinct. 



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A NEW SUBFAMILY OF EPHYDRID/E. 



By D. W. COQUILLETT, Washington, D. C. 



In a very interesting collection of Diptera recently captured 

 by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson in southern Florida and submitted to 

 the writer for names are two specimens of a hitherto undescribed 

 form allied to the Ephydridae, but differing from all of the known 

 species by the entire lack of long bristles, and by the unusually 

 short antennal arista. The absence of a spur on the second 

 antennal joint and of bristles on the outer side of the middle 

 tibiae, taken in connection with the hairy eyes, would throw this 

 form in the subfamily Hydrellina, but the entire absence of bris- 



Lipoclia>ta slossonae Coq. 



ties, the usually short antennal arista and the short face, will 

 necessitate the erection of a new subfamily, for which the name 

 Lipochtzta is proposed (from the Greek hx, without, and x atT j 

 seta). The principal characters of this new form are as follows : 



LIPOCHJETA n. gen. 



Entire insect destitute of long bristles. Head as broad as the 

 thorax, in profile longer than high; eyes protuberant, round, 



* Since the above was written Dr. Packard has published a description of the stages of 

 H. lecontei as far as the hibernation period (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iii, 176). Unfortunately, 

 the descriptions of the later stages are very brief, but what is stated seems to confirm 

 Strecker's description quoted above. 



