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head, the antennal protuberance of moderate size. Antennae short, third 

 joint obliquely oval, front ( $ ) rather narrow, somewhat arched, sides 

 nearly parallel. Face deeply concave from antennae to tip, short, without 

 tubercle, arched. Cheek very narrow, descending but a very short dis- 

 tance below the eye. Oval opening large, broad ; proboscis short. Pos- 

 terior orbit not tumid. All the femora very slightly thickened, simple, 

 without spines, or protuberance. Abdomen uniformly black, broad, oval, 

 arched. Sub-marginal cell open. Third longitudinal vein nearly straight, 

 small cross vein quite oblique, beyond the middle of discal cell. 



Allied to Br achy palpus, but differs in the simple unarmed femora, and 

 the broad, short body. 



Hadromyia grandis, ?,\:i. now., $. Brassy black,fshining. Front black, 

 covered with gray pollen, and (except below) with short yellow pile, 

 slightly intermixed with black at the vertex. Antennae reddish brown, 

 blackish toward the base. Face a dull whitish yellow, cheeks black, shin- 

 ing. Dorsum of thorax from in front of the wings and pleurae thickly 

 covered with short yellow pile. Posterior half of thorax, scutellum, and 

 first three segments of abdomen with thick, short, black pile ; fourth and 

 fifth segments of abdomen with longer yellow pile, abdomen scarcely 

 longer than thorax. Legs black with short black pile ; knees slightly 

 reddish, anterior tibiae in front, the tips of posterior tibiae behind and 

 anterior and posterior tarsi, with short thick golden pile ; middle tarsi 

 reddish. Wings hyaline ; costal cell and stigma yellow ; posterior cell 

 petiolate. L. c. 23 mm. L. al. 17 mm. Width of head and thorax 6 

 mm.; of second segment of abdomen 8^ mm. One specimen. Wash- 

 ington Territory (H. K. Morrison). 



? Brachypalpus pulcher, sp. nov. , ^ %. Face yellow with black 

 cheeks, and with or without blackish or brown narrow median stripe ; 

 frontal triangle of the male yellow or fuscous ; front in the female black, 

 rather narrow, a little broader below, yellow poUinose on the sides, pile 

 short, fuscous. Eyes of male with enlarged facets above. Antennae yel- 

 lowish brown or black, first two joints short, third obliquely oval, of a 

 lighter color near the base below. Dorsum of thorax and scutellum 

 black, with a bluish or partly metallic reflection, or in better preserved 

 specimens a metallic bronze, the pile of dcirsum more fulvous, on post- 

 alar callosicies, scutellum and pleurae, yellow. Abdomen of a brilliant 

 golden or bluish bronze, with short golden pile and opaque black markings 

 as follows : first segment except the sides, second segment on the anterior 



