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1. Body granulate j rostrum with a long spine; palpi tapering, straight; 



last joint of leg iv. not swollen L. plumipes. 



Body with scales or flattened hairs 2. 



2. Frontal tubercle with short spines ; last joint of leg iv. swol- 



len Z. plumifer. 



Frontal tubercle with very long spines ; last joint of leg iv. not 



swollen L. Halleri. 



LuCASiELLA, Banks. 



RJiyiuholophus, Lucas (in part), 1864. 

 MucropJis, Birula (preoccupied), 1893. 

 Eatonia, Cambridge (preoccupied), iSgy. 

 L. plumipes, Lucas, 1864 — Algeria, Tunis, Corfu, Spain, Isle of Jersey. 



Eatonia scopulifera, Cambr., 1897. 

 L. plumi/er, Birula, 1893 — Russian Armenia. 

 L. Halleri, Banks, 1899 — Switzerland. 



R. plumipes, Haller (nee Lucas). 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF EPHYDRID.^. 



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



Psilopa flavida, n. sp. $ . — Yellow, polished, the third joint of 

 antennae, except the lower side, dark brown ; hairs and macrochtetse black, 

 a vitta reaching from humerus to insertion of wing, and another on 

 middle of pleura, black ; abdomen, except first segment and middle of the 

 second, black, with a strong violaceous tinge ; knob of halteres greenish 

 yellow ; wings grayish hyaline, unmarked ; two pairs of dorso-central 

 mocrochiette ; length 2.5 mm. New Bedford, Mass. A single specimen 

 collected by Dr. Garry de N. Hough. Type No. 4292, U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



Psilopa varipes, n. sp. ? . — Black, polished, the third antennal joint 

 brown, its base yellow, knob of halteres white, middle and hind tibiae 

 and their tarsi yellow, apices of the tarsi brown ; head, thorax and 

 scutellum tinged with green, the mesonotum and scutellum slightly 

 scabrous, less polished than the head and pleura, only one pair of dorso- 

 centrals ; wings hyaline, the hind crossvein distinctly clouded with brown ; 

 length 2 mm. Vancouver Isd., Brit. Columbia. Three specimens 

 collected by Mr. C. Livingston. Type No. 4293, U. S. Nat. Museum. 



Psilopa similis, n. sp. $ 9 • — Black, the third antennal joint 

 brownish, knob of halteres white ; all coxae, femora, middle and hind 



