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black vitt?e, humeri each with a black dot, also a spot below- 

 each, pleura3 with three black spots, scutellum and halteres 

 yellow; abdomen light fuscous, blackish towards base, lateral 

 margins yellow ; legs yellow, tarsi fuscous ; wings hyaline, 

 second vein almost straight, the third curving forward, cross- 

 veins approximated. Length, 1.8 mm. 

 One specimen ; Douglas county, Kansas. 



CMorops rubicunda, n. sp. 



Head yellow, face and cheeks reddish yellow, occiput, except 

 sides, frontal triangle largely, tip of third antennal joint and 

 clypeus black, third antennal joint slightly longer than wide, 

 base of arista yellow, terminal portion white, short pubescent, 

 palpi yellow, frontal triangle with a shallow median sulcus ; 

 mesonotum yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge, marked 

 with five opaque black vittie, humeri each with a black dot, 

 pleurae reddish yellow, marked with four black spots, scutellum 

 yellow, halteres whitish ; abdomen brownish black, lateral 

 margins and venter largely black ; legs yellow, femora on up- 

 per side, tibijv near middle, and tip of tarsi, fuscous; wings 

 hyaline, second vein straight, third curving forward, hind cross- 

 vein about twice its length from the small. Length, 4 mm. 



Three specimens ; Lusk, Wyo. Collected by W. A. Snow 

 and Hugo Kahl. 



II. AFRICAN SPECIES. 



CONOPID.S:. 



Conops fumipennis, n. sp. 



Male : Front reddish, face velvety yellow, in certain lights of 

 a silvery-yellow reflection, cheeks and occiput reddish, antennae 

 reddish throughout, first and third joints subequal, second about 

 one and one-half times as long as either, proboscis reddish, 

 black at tip ; thorax rufous, the three dorsal vittse confluent, 

 sprinkled with whitish pollen ; pleurae rufous with silvery-white 

 dusted strip, attenuated above ; scutel rufous, metanotum black 

 below, whitish pollinose above ; halteres light yellow, brown at 

 base ; first segment of abdomen black with a narrow red hind 

 border which is sprinkled with a yellowish-white dust ; second, 

 third and fourth segments red, blackish above, with a yellow- 

 dusted posterior border which in some cases extends forwards 



