CHARLES P. ALEXANDER II 



of the scutum more yellowish gray. Pleura dark brown with an interrupted 

 silvery pollen, giving a spotted appearance and a more or less distinct pleural 

 stripe. Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxae brown, sparsely gray pruinose; 

 trochanters dull yellow, margined caudally with brownish black; femora 

 yellow, immediately before the tip with a brown annulus; tibiae brownish 

 yellow; tarsi brownish yellow, the terminal segments brown. Wings hyaline 

 with a f asciate pattern suggesting that in E. fascipennis (Say) ; basal band 

 irregular, not connected with the middle band, brownish in the anterior cells 

 of the wing, more grayish in the posterior cells, forming ocellate circles at 

 the arculus and the origin of the sector; the middle and apical bands are 

 connected with one another along veins Ri+o and M1+2; the supernumerary 

 cross vein in cell C is connected with the basal cross band; the marks at the 

 ends of veins Ri, Rs, R4+ 5 and Mi are all connected with one another at their 

 proximal ends. Venation: cell Ri deep, the veins not conspicuously diver- 

 gent at the wing-margin; cell 1st Mi comparatively small; petiole of cell M\ 

 about as long as the cell, slightly arcuate. 



Abdominal tergites brown, the caudal margins of the segments broadly 

 and conspicuously gray pruinose; sternites brownish yellow. Male hypopy- 

 gium with the lateral gonapophyses almost straight, not notably twisted at 

 their tips. 



Habitat. — Japan. Holotype, cf, Saitama, May 30, 1919, (R. 

 Takahashi). Allotopotype, 9, ISIay 31, 1919. 



Epiphragma subinsignis new species 



Antennae with the basal four or five segments of the flagellum orange- 

 yellow; mesonotal praescutum reddish anteriorly, light gray behind; halteres 

 yellow with a dark brown band at the base of the knob; legs yellow; wings 

 with an irregular yellovn'sh brown pattern; cell 1st M2 large, ample; abdominal 

 tergites narrowly margined caudally with gray. 



Male. — Length, about 11 mm.; wing, 11 mm. 



Rostrum yellow; palpi brown. Antennae with the scape dark brown, the 

 basal four or five flagellar segments orange-yellow, thence passing into brown; 

 flagellar segments shorter than in this sex of E. subfascipennis. Head with 

 a conspicuous yellowish pollen, the setiferous punctures conspicuous, dark 

 brown ; a large brownish area behind the antennal bases. 



Pronotum dark brown medially, more grayish laterally. Mesonotal prae- 

 scutum with about the anterior half light reddish, the posterior half gray; 

 median praescutal stripe split by a brown capillary line; remainder of the 

 mesonotum light gray, the scutellum yellowish gray. Pleura light gray, 

 spotted with dark brown. Halteres light yellow, a dark brow^n band across 

 the base of the knobs and the apical portions of the stem. Legs light yellow, 

 the tarsal segments a little darkened. Wings broad, hyaline, with an irregu- 

 lar, clear-cut pattern of yellowish brown, narrowly margined with dark brown; 

 this consists of a cross-band at the level of the origin of the sector, extending 

 across the wing, enclosing a hyaline spot at the spur of the sector; two smaller 

 spots nearer the base of the wing; a broad, irregular band along the cord 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



