78 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



yellowish gray pollen, with the broad median stripe and cheeks broadly 

 shining black. Antennae brownish black, first joint twice as long as 

 second ; third joint somewhat reddish or brownish black. Front in the 

 female siiining black, covered with reddish or fulvous pile or hair, on the 

 sides below pollinose. Frontal triangle in the male poUinose as on the 

 face, the tumid ocelligerous callosity black, opaque, slightly pollinose and 

 with a tuft of long reddish pile. Proboscis in female as long as the 

 thorax, shorter in male. Posterior orbits below tumid, thickly pollinose 

 and with a conspicuous fringe of yellowish white pile. Thorax black, 

 shining, with metallic lustre and reddish or fulvous pile, longer and thicker 

 on the scutellum. Abdomen shining black, with sparse similarly colored 

 pile, the hind borders of the segments narrowly pollinose. Legs black, 

 extreme tips of femora, basal third of tibiae, and basal joints of tarsi, 

 especially the middle pair, a brownish yellow or luteous. Wings hyaline, 

 a faint blackish shade near the tip ; near the origin of third vein a narrow 

 indistinct brownish cross band, small cross vein also narrowly clouded ; 

 first posterior cell closed in the border of the wing. L. c. 10-13 ™i^i- < 

 1. al. 7^-11 mm. Four specimens. California. 



Brachymyia {1 Erwphora Ph.) nigripes sp. nov., $. Sides efface 

 covered with yellowish pollen, broad median stripe and cheeks s'nining 

 black ; front black with black pile. Antennae black, first joint but a little 

 longer than the second. Proboscis long. Posterior orbits fringed with 

 whitish pile below. Thorax black, with fulvous pile in front, across the 

 middle with black, the pleurae, scutellum, and especially the posterior 

 angles, with lighter, yellow, and more bushy pile or hair. Abdomen 

 black, shining ; short, broad, and arched ; the sides of the second, and 

 all the fourth and fifth segments with thick yellow pile ; elsewhere the pile 

 is shorter and black. Legs wholly black. Wings hyaline, a little shaded 

 near the tip, small cross vein faintly clouded, first posterior cell closed 

 before the border of the wing, petiolate. L. c. 14 mm.; 1. al. 13 mm. 

 Five specimens. California. 



The greater, more woolly pilosity, and the conically produced face 

 leave me in doubt as to its relationship to Eriophora Ph. (Ver. zool. bot. 

 Gesell. in Wien. 1865, p. 735, pi. xxvi., fig. 36). 



A third species from Maine, rather larger than the last, differs in the 

 two basal segments only of the abdomen being yellow pilose, and the 

 tibise and tarsi mostly a deep red. 



Hadromyia gen. nov. Antennae situated below the middle of the 



