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across the median space or connected with the t. p. line by a short 

 spur. Orbicular large, oval, oblique, gray with a dusky central shade, 

 fairly well defined. Reniform upright, rather long kidney-shaped, 

 gray, with a narrow dusky center, margins fairly well defined. Sec- 

 ondaries smoky blackish in both sexes. Beneath, dull smoky brown, 

 secondaries paler and more powdery, both wings with more or less 

 obvious extra-median lines and discal dots. 

 Expands 1.00-1.15 inches (25-29 mm.) 



Habitat San Diego, California, in March. 



Thirty-three males and seven females are at hand for com- 

 parison, received through Mr. H. H. Brehme. The species 

 runs toward the smaller size, the largest example representing 

 a single female conspicuous in the series. As a whole the 

 species resembles an undersized cuneata with the contrasts 

 out and the maculation slightly modified. Six of the speci- 

 mens before me have no trace of yellow scales on the s. t. 

 line, and in most of the others there are only a few opposite 

 the anal angle. For comparison I have over 20 examples of 

 cuneata, ranging from San Francisco, California, northward 

 into British Columbia and eastward into the Mountains of 

 Colorado. 



The antennae of male are barely ciliate, and the dorsal tuft- 

 ings on abdomen are complete. 



The Genus Parodinia Coquillett (Geomyzidae, Dipt.)* 

 By J. R. MALLOCH, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department 



of Agriculture.* 



In the course of some work I have in hand, revising the 

 species in Agromyzidae, I found specimens of this genus 

 standing under the specific names cinerea Coquillett, and 

 costalis Coquillett, amongst the Milichinae. It was at once 

 quite evident that they did not belong there and were just 

 as evidently true Geomyzidae. I should have transferred 

 them to their proper place without further remark, but for 

 the fact that the specimens standing as costalis represent two 

 distinct species, the description of one of which is here given. 



* Published by permission of Chief of Bureau. 



