122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Two specimens, Washington Terr, and Mt. Hood, Oregon (H. K. 

 Morrison). 



Coowmyia cincreibarbis Bigot. Annales Soc. Ent. Fr. 1879, 194. 



This species was described by Bigot from a specimen from Baltimore. 

 As usual with this author, he does not point out differences, merely saying 

 that this species resembles certain varieties of C. ferruginea in color. 

 Now it is well known tliat C. ferruginea is very variable in coloration, so 

 much so, in fact, that it has received twelve or thirteen specific names. 

 The coloration hence of Mr. Bigot's specimen, from analogy, is compara- 

 tively worthless as a specific character. Nothing else is mentioned except 

 the villosity. From this, however, I believe I recognize the species in a 

 male specimen caught in the woods near New Haven, in June. It 

 is of a deep brownish black, the femora of the same color. The abdo- 

 men above has the second segment wholly black (shining), the third seg- 

 ment with a large light yellow spot on the posterior angles, the fourth 

 segment with a similar but smaller one, and with the posterior margin 

 likewise yellow, the remaining segments chiefly yellow. The species will 

 be best distinguished from C. ferruginea by the presence of rather long 

 and abundant yellow pile on the dorsum of the thorax, whereas in ferru- 

 ginea the dorsum is nearly bare. 



Subula pallipes Loew. 



This species has hitherto only been known from the Atlantic States, 

 but specimens from Montana (Prof. Comstock, No. 50) and Southern 

 California cannot be separated. The western specimens show a broader 

 yellow hind margin to the abdominal segments, but otherwise I can dis- 

 tinguish no difference. 



Subula parens, n. sp. 



^. Length 13 mm. Front black, light yellowish pubescent, shining 

 about the ocelli. Antennae black, the inner side from the base, except the 

 upper margin, yellowish red. Face black, proboscis and tip of the palpi 

 reddish yellow. Dorsum of thorax black, the lateral margins, interrupted 

 just behind the suture, and extending inwards a short distance in front, 

 and a slender spot on the suture on each side, yellow. Pleurae and coxse 

 black, the former with a median vertical spot, connected above with a 

 slender stripe reaching from the humeri to the root of the wings, and a 

 large spot on the sides of the metanotum, yellow. Abdomen brownish 



