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Euparyphus septem-maculatus, n. sp. 



Male : Head black, frontal triangle black with two minute 

 white pruinose spots at apex, face black, with a subtriangular 

 yellow spot on either side, facial and inferior occipital orbits 

 narrowly white pruinose, mouth-parts brown, antennae black, 

 eyes thickly pubescent ; thorax black, pile whitish yellow, two 

 narrow yellow Lines on dorsum do not reach beyond suture, 

 lateral stripes broad, extend onto the humeri and are inter- 

 rupted behind suture, a vertical spot anterior and parallel to 

 and a second spot at inferior end of the mesopleural suture ; 

 scutellum yellow, narrow margin of base and tips of spines 

 black, halteres yellow ; abdomen black with three yellow spots 

 on each margin, the first, on second segment, small, the second 

 and third oblique, broad and narrow, respectively, and on the 

 third and fourth segments, the second projecting onto the ante- 

 rior angles of the fourth segment, a yellow triangular spot on 

 apex of fifth segment and extends onto posterior margin of 

 fourth segment; venter black, except short yellow bands on 

 central portion of segments ; coxae black, femora black, except 

 tips, tibiae, first and second joints of fore tarsi, all joints, except 

 the fourth, of the middle and hind tarsi yellow; wings hya- 

 line, large veins and stigma yellow, basal, discal and submargi- 

 nal cells slightly tinged with yellow, third vein furcate. Length, 

 8.5 mm. 



One specimen ; Palo Alto, Cal., September, 22, 1894. Leland 

 Stanford Jr. University. (Lot 25, sub. 8.) 



Euparyphus limbrocutris Williston. 



Euparyj)lius, d. sp.? Williston, Canad. Ent., XVII, 7, p. 126. 



After writing the description of this insect, Doctor Williston 

 must have concluded that it is a good species, for the specimen 

 now appears in the collection of the University of Kansas under 

 the above name in his own writing. I take pleasure in giving 

 the name for publication. 



Cliry so chroma albipes Town. 



Chrysonotus albipes, n. ep., Townsend MS. 



Male : Front green, finely scrobiculate, with yellow pile, 

 that on vertex rather long, tubercle above antennae and ocelli 

 light yellow ; face yellow, with yellow pile and slightly under 

 than front, mouth-parts yellow, cheeks very narrow, black, 



