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nous dilation densely covered with very fine, soft hairs; pronotal hood 

 rather large, much longer than wide, covering the hind part of the head, 

 leaving the eyes free; surface yellowish-white, opaque, with a few minute 

 areoles. Hemelytra extending about one third beyond the abdomen; 

 oblong-oval, broadly rounded at the end, feebly sinuate toward the base; 

 the discoidal areas pyriform, reaching to about the middle of the elytra, 

 reticulated, blackish at base and at apex, a pale stripe across the middle; 

 the subcostal biseriate, yellow; costal margin yellowish-white, trans- 

 lucent, with four or five series of medium sized areoles at the widest part, 

 those toward the base smaller; five transverse oblique nervures black at the 

 costal area and all nervures at the apex more or less blackish. Legs pale, 

 yellow. Length, 4 mm. ; width, 2 mm. 



Described from several specimens, males and females. Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., August 10 (Riley, Pergande) found on Solanum caro- 

 linense and Solanum ei&agnifolium; Lavaca Co., Texas, June 21; 

 Columbus, Texas, July 29, 1879 (Riley collection) on, coffee weed 

 and Solanum; El Reno, Okla., July 12, 1909; Norfolk, Va.. 

 June 12, 1914 (Fink). It is recorded as found on egg-plants and 

 potatoes in great abundance. 



Type: No. 18810 U. S. National Museum. 



This new species resembles Gargaphia angulata Heid. in the gen- 

 eral outline, but differs considerably by the larger size and by the 

 prominence of the hood, being much longer. It belongs to a group 

 of Gargaphia species which have the membranous dilation of the 

 pronotum angularly expanded instead of roundly dilated, as in 

 G. tilia Walsh; G. patricia Stal; G. opacula Uhler and others. 

 Judging from the localities already known, this species seems to 

 have a wide range of distribution, from the Atlantic coast to the 

 Southwestern States. 



FORCIPOMYIA PROPINQUUS WILLISTON, A CORRECTION. 



BY J. R. MALLOCH, Urban a, Illinois. 



In a footnote hi an article on Ceratopogonince ante p. 63 of these 

 Proceedings it is stated that the figures of the tarsus and the wing 

 of Fordpomyia propinquus -given by Williston are those of the 

 female and not the male. I considered that the statement was an 

 error because the single specimen described by Williston, hi addi- 

 tion to being indicated as a male, is from the description obviously 

 of that sex. The figure of the tarsus is also clearly that of a male. 

 possibly of eriophorus, though the wing is drawn too blunt and 

 short. ' The description of eriophorus is that of the female, an 

 error being made in the insertion of the sex symbol. 



