April, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



MACHERIS. 



FEMALES. 



Head rather coarsely and closely punctured; enclosure distinct, coarsely 

 reticulated; segments 4-5 usually black ....... stygia, 



Head rather finely and sparsely punctured; metathorax short, enclosure 

 poorly defined, with longitudinal lines; robust. 



illinoensis sp. nov. 

 MALES. 



Resembles the male of 5". cressonii ; the pubescence shorter, more cin- 

 ereous, thinner, especially on clypeus; antennae, tegulae, ner- 

 vures and reddish color of abdomen, when present, darker; 

 mesonotum anteriorly, pleura and metathorax more coarsely 

 reticulated ..................... stygia. 



Two New Species of the Family Pipunculidae. 



BY C. W. JOHNSON. 

 Pipnnculus pallipes, n. sp. 



(3\ Face and front black ; antennae brown, aristae black. Thorax and 

 scutellum bronze-black, shining ; humeri dull yellow ; pleura and meta- 

 notum black, covered with a grayish pubescence. Abdomen ovate, 

 shining bronze-black, with the sides of the second, third and fourth 

 segments yellow, which on the second segment is nearly double in 

 extent to that on the two following segments ; first segment gray, 

 opaque ; ventral surface of the second, third and fourth segments entirely 

 yellow. Legs and halteres light yellow, the two last joints of the tarsi 

 brown. Wings long, hyaline, stigma brown. Length 3^ mm., length 

 of wing 4 mm. 



Wild wood, N. ]., August 27, 1901. 



This resembles P. lateralis Macq. , by the light yellow, not an- 

 nulated legs and greater extent of yellow on the sides of the 

 abdomen. The latter character distinguishes this species from 

 all described American species. 



I might here state that Pipnnculus hougJii Johnson in the 

 Catalogue of Insects of New Jersey, p. 665, is only a nnmina 

 in/da, an accident happening to the specimen before it was de- 

 scribed. L,ater Dr. C. Kertesz (Wiener Entom. Zeitung, 

 XIX, 244, Nov., 1900) has applied the same name to P. latet- 

 alis Walker 1856, non Macquart 1834. 



Nephrocerus daeckei, n. sp. 



O 7 *. Face and front black, covered with a silvery white pubescence ; 



