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verticals, ocellar bristles directed forward ; third joint of an- 

 tennie twice as long as broad ; facial carina scarcely percepti- 

 ble ; palpi black, elongate, acute when viewed from the side, 

 broad and rounded from above. Thorax yellow, pile black; 

 mesonotum reddish yellow, with a median gray pollinose vitta, 

 one humeral, two posthumeral, one supraalar, and one postalar 

 bristle ; scutellum with two pairs of bristles ; pleunc with a 

 thin coating of gray pollen, two sternopleural macroch?et?e 

 present; halteres and legs yellow. Abdomen opaque black, 

 each segment centrally and on posterior border yellowish. 

 Wings hyaline, costa terminates at tip of third vein, its third 

 section a little more than one-half as long as its second, being 

 one and one-fourth times as long as the penultimate sections of 

 the fourth vein. Length, 2 mm. 

 One specimen ; April. 



Drosophila proxima, n. sp. 



Female : Head and members yellow ; front opaque, with 

 three fronto-orbitals on each side, two verticals and a pair of 

 small bristles behind the ocelli, ocellar bristles rather strong ; 

 antennae about two-thirds as long as the face, third joint nearly 

 twice as long as broad ; face excavated, median carina per- 

 ceptible just below the autenniie only; cheeks narrow; occiput 

 black with orbits largely yellow. Thorax reddish yellow ; 

 mesonotum with one humeral, two posthumeral, two supraalar, 

 one postalar, and a pair of small prescutellar bristles ; scutellum 

 with two pairs of bristles, its apical fourth is white, between 

 this and the remainder of the scutellum is a streak of brown ; 

 knobs of halteres brown ; two sternopleural bristles present. 

 Legs yellow. Abdomen yellow ; second segment with a black 

 spot laterally, brownish in the middle, third and fourth seg- 

 ments with the posterior border shining black, which color ex- 

 tends forward centrally, last segment with the posterior border 

 black. Wings hyaline, costa reaches to tip of third vein, its 

 third section about one-half as long as its second, and a little 

 longer than the penultimate section of the fourth vein. Length, 

 2.7 mm. 



Three specimens ; April. 



