Vol. XXIV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2/1 



8 Dorsum of the thorax bluish-green, without distinct vittae; front 



purple in the middle. (Mexico.) angustipennis Aid. 



Dorsum brownish with dark vittae ; front black or greenish black ; 

 hypopygium with long appendages. (Eastern species.) 



lincatus Loew. 



y Fourth and fifth joints of middle tarsi dilated and fringed with 

 black bristles; second joint of hind tarsi with a few long 

 bristles on its upper surface near the tip. (Washington.) 



pugil Wheeler 



Middle tarsi plain ; second joint of hind tarsi without long bris- 

 tles 10 



TO Hind tibiae with a wide black band at tip; hind metatarsi with 

 basal half whitish, apical half black, and longer than the 

 second joint; hypopygium with distinct appendages. (New 



Mexico.) claratus, n. sp. 



Tips of hind tibiae and all of hind tarsi black; first and second 

 joints of hind tarsi nearly equal ; hypopygium witjiout dis- 

 tinct appendages 1 1 



n Dorsum of the thorax gray, with the bristles arising from brown 

 spots and with a brown line down the middle ; bases of the 

 abdominal segments purplish bronze ; fore femora all yellow 



(Mexico.) veripes Aid. 



Dorsum dark blackish green; bases of the abdominal segments 

 cupreous; basal half or more of fore femora black. (Cali- 

 fornia. ) cuprinus Wheeler 



Sympycnus clavatus n. sp. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. Eyes contiguous on the face, leaving only 

 a small triangle below the antennae, which is greenish-black and cov- 

 ered with white pollen ; palpi small, with silvery-white pollen ; front 

 and occiout greenish-black, with white pollen: two basal joints of the 

 antennae yellow, third joint with a blunt point, brown; arista brown; 

 cilia of the lower orbit white, a few of the upper cilia black. Dorsum 

 of the thorax dark, rather dull green, scutellum and metanotum con- 

 colorous, pleurae more blackish ; all rather thickly covered with white 

 pollen; humeri and a spot at the insertion of the wings yellowish; 

 halteres yellow. Abdomen yellow, the first segment infuscated, second 

 and third with poorly defined black bands at the incisures which are 

 more or less connected along the center of the dorsum, fourth except 

 at the base, and the fifth and sixth altogether greenish-black; hypopy- 

 gium of the same blackish color, and with distinct appendages (Fig. 

 i); venter yellow; hairs of the nhdomrn including the long bristles 

 on the posterior margin of the first segment yellow. Fore and middle 

 tarsi with the two last joints blackened; pulvilli of fore pair slightly 

 enlarged. Legs and coxae pale yellow ; hairs and bristles of fore and 



