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projecting, cheeks about two-thirds as wide as the eye-height, eyes, 

 nearly circular, bare ; proboscis robust, fleshy, palpi slender ; antennae 

 shorter than the face, the third joint oval, broader than long, arista dor- 

 sal, bare ; three ocilli present, ocellar prominence unusually large, ocel- 

 lar and post-vertical bristles present, two pairs of vertical and three of 

 fronto-orbital bristles (see the accompanying figures) ; body robust, 

 abdomen less than twice as long as wide, shorter than the thorax ; aux- 

 iliary vein distinct at its base but toward its apex uniting with the first 

 vein, apex of third vein midway between the apices of the second and 

 fourth, the latter slightly converging toward the third at its apex, hind 

 cross vein situated beyond the last third of the length of the wing, small 

 cross vein at the last fourth of the length of the discal cell, penultimate 

 section of the fourth vein about one-third as long as the ultimate 

 section ; sixth vein not reaching the wing margin ; the two basal and anal 

 cells complete ; pre-apical tibial bristle present, but small ; legs otherwise 

 destitute of bristles except near the upper and the under sides of the 

 front femora. 



Type, the following species : 



Traginops irrorata, n. sp. 



Head black, the middle of the front, of the cheeks, and the antenna? 

 except the the arista, yellow ; the face clypeus ; proboscis and palpi yel- 

 lowish brown ; occiput and sides of front gray pruinose, a black spot at 

 insertion of each bristle, face and upper and lower edges of the cheeks 

 whitish pruinose, two black spots on the upper part of each cheek. 

 Thorax black, opaque, gray pruinose, rather thickly covered with brown 

 spots and dots, bearing three humeral bristles, two post-humeral, one 

 praesutural, four super-alar, four dorso-central and one acrostichal ; 

 pleura gray pruinose, marked on its upper edge and also near its middle 

 with a brown vitta, sternopleura bearing three or four macrochaetae 

 along its upper edge besides several hairs, prosternal bristle present, 

 pleura otherwise bare ; scutellum black, gray pruinose, marked with 

 a central brown spot, the margin yellow, four dots and the front 

 angles brown, bearing four macrochaetae. Abdomen dark brown, 

 slightly polished, the sides and venter gray pruinose and covered with 

 brown dots and spots. Legs yellow, the front femora except their apices, 

 bases of the others, two bands on each tibia, and the tarsi, except the 

 apices of the joints, blackish brown. Wings whitish hyaline, rather thickly 

 covered with brown dots and spots, as in the accompanying figure (from 

 a drawing by Mrs. C.), the posterior margin bordered with dark gray, 

 veins bare ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 3 to 4 mm. 



Georgia. Ten specimens collected by the late H. K. Mor- 

 rison. I have also examined two specimens collected by Mr. 

 C. W. Johnson in New Jersey. Type No. 4392, U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



