THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 277 



NEW SPECIES OF SAPROMYZID^. 



BY D. W. COQUILLETT, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Genus Sapromyza. 



Wings hyaline, unmarked 3. 



Wings brown along the costa, the small and the posterior cross- 

 veins ; body and its members, except the wings, yellow, antennal 

 arista brown, second joint of hind tarsi sometimes black ; three 

 pairs of dorso-centrals, one of acrostichals, and two sternopleural 

 macrochaetpe 2. 



Costa and apex of vving, from the base to beyond apex of fourth vein, 

 broadly bordered with brown, which is widely separated from the 

 brown of the crossveins ; second joint of hind tarsi yellow, third 

 antennal joint oval, one and one-third times as long as wide, arista 

 with a scarcely perceptible pubescence. Length, 3.5 mm. Chiric 

 Mts., Ariz. A female specimen collected May 31, 1897, by Mr. H. 

 G. Hubbard. Type No. 4082, U. S. Nat. ^nstwm . Hubbardii, n. sp. 



Costa and apex of wing, from slightly beyond humeral crossvein to 

 beyond apex of fourth vein, broadly bordered with brown, which is 

 connected with the brown of the small crossvein, and sends a spur 

 which almost reaches the hind crossvein ; second joint of hind 

 tarsi yellow, third joint of antennae elongate oval, almost twice as 

 long as wide, arista short plumose. Length, 3 mm. Oswego, N.Y. 

 A female specimen collected August i, 1895, by Prof. Chas. A. 

 Sheldon. Type No. 4083 SJieldoiii, n. sp. 



Costa and apex of wing, from tip of auxiliary vein to beyond apex 

 of the fourth, broadly bordered with brown, except a short space 

 between the apices of the second and third veins, where the brown 

 is very narrow ; the brown sends a spur to the small crossvein and 

 another which almost reaches the brown of the hind crossvein ; 

 second joint of hind tarsi black, third antennal joint oval, one and 

 one-half times as long as broad, arista short plumose. Length, 

 3.5 mm. New Bedford, Mass. A male specimen collected by Dr. 

 Garry de N. Hough. Type No 4084 Houghii, n. sp. 



Face, pleura and scutellum destitute of round black spots 4. 



Face marked with one, pleura and scutellum each with two black 

 spots ; yellow, an ocellar dot, first two joints of antennae, spot on 

 lower edge of face, one near middle of mesopleura, another on 

 front end of sternopleura, one on each side of middle of scutellum, 



