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with yellow luster. Wings narrower than in the female. Length: Body 

 about 3mm., wing 1.8mm. 



Buena Vista, Florida, December 29, 1913 (C. A. Mosier); 

 Miami, Florida, two females on flowers of avocado (Per sea sp.), 

 December 20, 1912, two males, November 22 and 23, 1912 (F. 

 Knab); Little River, Florida, two females November 30, 1912 

 (Knab); Biscayne Bay and Lake Worth, Florida (Mrs. A. T. 

 Slosson). 



Type: Cat. No. 18419, U. S. N. M. 



Closely resembles Forcipomyia propinquus Williston, but differs 

 principally in the shape of the palpi and hind tarsi, both being 

 more slender than in Williston's species. 



Forcipomyia crudelis n. sp. 



Female: Occiput dull brown, clothed with coarse yellow hair. Anten- 

 nae with the proximal portion of the shaft yellowish, of subglobose and 

 subovate joints, the last five joints blackish and clothed with white 

 pubescence, elongate and subcylindrical. Palpi black, the antepenultimate 

 joint greatly thickened. Thorax and scutellum brownish black, a small 

 yellowish humeral spot, vestiture of coarse yellow hair. Abdomen black, 

 clothed dorsally with dark hair, at the sides with tufts of shining yellow hair 

 at the bases of the segments. Wings smoky, clothed with coarse black hair ; 

 costa black to end of first vein and on this portion bearing long and dense 

 black hair, a patch of yellow hair at its base; submarginal cell indistinct, 

 ending slightly beyond middle of wing. Halteres with brownish stem and 

 whitish knob. Legs yellow, clothed with coarse, irregular yellow hairs; 

 an ill-defined brown ring subapically on middle and hind femora; entire 

 fore tarsi infuscated, middle and hind tarsi with the last three joints dark; 

 first joint of hind tarsi slightly less than half the length of the second, the 

 last joint nearly as long as the fourth. Claws long and slender; empodium 

 fleshy, ciliate. Length: Body about 1.5 mm., wing 1.7 mm. 



Plantation "La Oaxaquena," near Santa Lucrecia, Mexico, 

 October, 1911. (F. W. Urich.) 



Type: Cat. No. 18420, U. S. N. M. 



NOTES ON SOME FOREST COLEOPHORA WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OF TWO NEW SPECIES. 1 



BY CARL HEINRICH, Bureau of Entomology. 



The following species of Coleophora were reared by Mr. A. 

 Busck and the writer during the past summer, at the Falls Church, 

 Virginia, station of the Forest Insect Investigations Division of 



1 Contribution from the Division of Forest Insect Investigations, Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



