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triangle, which stops just short of the cruciate bristles, and the 

 shining orbits, which become very wide near the antennae, where 

 together they exceed the stripe; thorax with the hairs not unusually 

 developed; two pairs of large, anterior acrostichals with hairs be- 

 tween and before; prealar distinct, more than one-third as long as 

 following bristle; two sternopleurals behind, the lower smaller, 

 and one in front. Front tibia with one or two very minute bristles 

 in front; middle tibia with three on outer front beyond middle, 

 four on outer hind; hind tibia with one long behind, three on outer 

 hind, three on outer front; middle tarsi normal; middle femur 

 with a row of short bristles on front side, ending abruptly at middle, 

 no unusual hairs behind. Calypters as in male, halteres more 

 brown than black. 



Length of male 7.2 mm.; of female 6.4 mm. 



One male, one female, collected at Tacoma, Wash., on June 

 27, 1917, by Professor A. L. Melander, to whom they are returned. 



The male runs to occulta in Malloch's table, from which it 

 differs in many charaters, among them the presence of dense hair 

 below on the first two joints of the middle tarsus. The female 

 hardly runs at all in Malloch's table, as the halteres are inter- 

 mediate between yellow and black, the first alternative; it separates 

 from all other species in large size, wide shining, black orbits, and 

 the armature of the middle tibiae. 



OBITUARY. 

 Lieut. Vernon King. 



We regret to record the death of Lieut. Vernon King of the 

 Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in France on April 11th, 1918. 



Lieut. King was a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Guelph, and before enlisting was a Scientific Assistant in the 

 Branch of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. He resigned his 

 position in November, 1914, and proceeded to F^ngland. After 

 serving at the Dardanelles he joined the Flying Corps and was 

 killed in an air fight while carrying on duties as an observer on 

 the date mentioned. He was an extremely promising young man, 

 and was very well liked by all who knew him. 



September, 1918 



