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brown, blackish above, slightly longer than broad, the lower corner 

 slightly less convex than the upper. Thorax shining greenish, short 

 white pilose. Sciitelhim fringed with rather short white pile, with six 

 slender black bristles arranged as follows : two on each side near the apex, 

 one more slender on each side near the base. Abdomen considerably 

 broader than the thorax, everywhere shining brassy and rather short, 

 dense, short, appressed pilose ; on the lateral margins the pile is longer 

 and erect. Legs short, whitish pilose, femora entirely black, except the 

 extreme apex, anterior, and middle coxje reddish, all the tibiae obscurely 

 reddish, except a broad subapical band occupying more than a third of 

 the width of the tibite, front and middle tarsi reddish, the two apical 

 joints blackish, posterior tarsi entirely blackish. Wings subhyaline, the 

 basal half slightly coloured with yellowish, veins brown, stigma luteous, 

 stumps of veins at the bases of the apical and posterior cross veins. 



L. corp. 9 mm., al. 8 mm. 



Two specimens: one bearing the label "Cal., R. W. Doane coll.," 

 and the other, " Palo Alto, California^ March 29, 1895." 



This species is allied to C. occidentalism Will., also from California. 

 It may be distinguished, however, from that species among other 

 characters by the colour of the pile and thfe presence of stumps of veins 

 at the bases of the apical and posterior cross veins. 

 9. Chilosia pwictulata, n. sp. Plate V., Fig. 6, a. 



Eyes pilose, arista bare, scutelium wholly without bristles. Every- 

 where profoundly punctured; wings uniformly, distinctly yellowish. 



Female. — Front deeply punctured, wholly without swollen processes, 

 but little shining, pile short, dense, in some lights blackish, from above 

 white. The orbits on the lower part of the front and the upper part of 

 the face expanded as a narrow band just below the base of the antenna;, 

 white pollinose. Face bare, shining black, deeply concave below the 

 antennae to the conspicuous round tubercle, thence shortly and deeply 

 concave to the oral margin, which is obliquely truncate. Cheeks narrow, 

 bare, shining, 'ower border straight. Antenme situate above the centre 

 of the eyes, second and third joints bright reddish-yellow (sometimes 

 more brownish), first and the narrow orifice brownish. Third joint 

 moderate, a trifle longer than broad, regularly elliptical. .-Crista bare, 

 basal, yellow at apex. Eyes very short, sparse, white pilose. Mesonotum 

 densely punctured but little shining, pile short, whitish, on pleura below 

 the base of the wings longer and white. Scutelium without bristles, 



