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A female was originally descriljetl from New Hampshire (Osten 

 Sacken). 



My material consists of one male from Ithaca, New York, 

 i\Iay 31, [Cornell], and one female from Sullivan County, Penn- 

 sylvania, 1800 ft. alt., June 6, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Renocera johnsoni new species (PI. II, fig. 27.) 



This and the following species suggests Melina (Sciomyza auct.) 

 in general structure, Init the aljsence of propleural bristles and 

 pteropleural setulae exclude them. In placing them in this 

 genus, I am influenced Ijy the absence of the distinct abdominal 

 and femoral bristles, although in the short, broad, second and 

 large, rectangular third antennal joints, and in having Init one 

 frontal bristle, they are very distinct from longipes, and, prol)ably 

 represent a distinct group or subgenus. 



d^ . Pale olive buff to wax yellow; fore tarsi entirely and apices of middle 

 and hind tarsi, black; halteres pale yellow; arista and bristles black; wings 

 brownish hyahne with cross-veins broadly clouded. Frons wax yellow, with 

 complete median and abbreviated orbital stripes fuscous. Face pale with 

 silvery reflections. Occiput without silvery spots. Thorax and scutellum 

 brownish gray; mesonotum with narrow, more or less distinct brown stripes; 

 pleura lighter with broad brown stripe above. Abdomen paler, especially 

 apically, with distinct median brown stripe and subapical fascia on third 

 and fourth segments. Opacjue with the complete median frontal stripe 

 shining. 



Structurally similar to valida and clara. Cheeks nearly equalling eye- 

 height; second antennal joint half as long as third, broader than long; third, 

 broadly rounded apically, nearly twice as long as broad; arista sparingly, 

 short plumose. Thorax robust, short, subquadrate; humeral and prescutellar 

 bristles absent and but one dorso-central. Fore femora with the extensor 

 and flexor series well developed distally; hind femora with two flexor series. 

 Hind cross-vein straight, almost at right angle with fourth vein. Length. — 

 5 mm. 



Tijpe.~9 ; Fort Kent, Maine, August 1, 1910, (C. W. Johnson), 

 [B. S. N. H.]. Paratype. — 1 9 , Bear Lake, British Columbia, 

 July 7, (R. P. Currie), [U. S. N. M.]. 

 Renocera amanda new species 



The specimen upon which this species is based was received 

 as Tetanocera rotundicornis Loew. It does not, however, agree 

 sufficiently well with the description of that imperfectly known 

 species to remove doubt as to the correctness of the determina- 

 tion. As noted under johnsoni, the present species is very dis- 



TR.A.NS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



