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being already used in the genus as a synonym of aenea Wied. 

 the same had better not be used again here. 



Stenomyia fasciapennis n. sp. 



Black, moderately shining with metallic steel color reflections. 

 Rufous or yellow as follows: Front except ocellar region and vertical 

 angles, sides of face, epistoma, cheeks, all opake, antennae except 

 fuscous apices, coxae, femora except below, extreme tips of tibiae, 

 bases of tarsi, halteres, and veins of wings in hyaline areas. Wings 

 fuscous with two complete hyaline bands as figured. 



Robust. Head as high as long. Front as wide as eye, without differ- 

 ential frontal bristles, with numerous fine orbital hairs, in profile but 

 little projecting beyond orbits. Face retreating, with scarcely any 

 vibrissal angles. Cheeks .25 eye-height. Third antennal joint hardly 

 longer than second and nearly as broad, with an apical angle of about 

 go degrees. Chaetotaxy normal. Thorax and abdomen only slightly 

 elongate, the latter not overreaching the wings. Wings with anal cell 

 as figured. Length 4.0 mm. 



Described from two males bearing a state label "Minn." 

 without any other data. Holotype No. 6016 in the American 

 Entomological Society collection. 



These specimens were found in the collection under debilis 

 Loew which they are certainly not. The species is a true 

 Stenomyia and may be distinguished from its congeners by 

 the wing design as well as being also much stouter. 



Stenomyia Loew is considered by Dr. Hendel (4) as syn- 

 onymous with Chaetopsis Lw. I cannot agree to this, for I 

 find good characters of differentiation, supported by the new 

 species here described which lead me to consider the genus 

 valid, at least, recognizable, such as the absence of differ- 

 entiated frontal bristles, the retreating face with no distinct 

 vibrissal angles and the short anal cell. The genus seems to 

 be more nearly related to Eumetopiella Hendel. 



Stenomyia nasoni n. sp. 



Black, shining, metallic steel blue or greenish. Front opake, dark 

 r^ufous except at vertex, with whitish dust which becomes more intense 

 along orbits. Sides of face and cheeks, also opake and concolorous 

 with front, with narrow orbits whitish ; median part to epistoma shin- 

 ing steel blue. Antennae black, with whitish spot at aoex of second. 



(4) Wien. Ent. Zeit., xxviii, 254, 1909. 



