174 NEW NORTH AMERICAN ANTHOMYIIDAE (DirTERA) 



Fore tibia much longer than fore tarsus, armed willi about six short bristles 

 from base to apex on antero-dorsal surface, and two or three longer bristles 

 on posterior surface; mid tibia with two or three antero-dorsal, three or four 

 jjostero-dorsal, two or three posterior and one or two ventral bristles; hind 

 femur with an almost complete series of bristles on antero-ventral surface, 

 and three or four on middle of postero-vcntral surface; hind tibia with four 

 or five antcro-ventral, about nine antero-dorsal and from five to seven postero- 

 dorsal bristles, the posterior surface with a number of setulose hairs on basal 

 half. Costal thorn very small; outer cross- vein very much curved; third 

 vein ending just in front of ai)cx of wing, foiu'th considerably beyond it. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the frons a little over one-third 

 as wide as head, the interfrontalia with two pairs of cruciate bristles, the 

 palpi broadened, the fore tibia with one of the antero-dorsal bristles much 

 stronger than the others, and th(> hind tibia without posterior setulose hairs. 



Length, 7 to 9 mm. 



Type.— 9; New Bedford, Massachusetts, Alay 10, 1896, 

 (Hough). Allotype. — cf ; Hampton, New Hampshire, April 26, 

 1910, (S. A. Shaw). Paratypes. — Two males, Sherborn, Massa- 

 chusetts, April 30, 1912, May 26, 1913; one male, Danvcrs, 

 Massachusetts, May 19, 1914; one female, Melrose Highlands, 

 Massachusetts, May 3, 1912, (H. E. Smith); one male, Clemen- 

 ton, New Jersey, April 21, 1902, (C. W. Johnson). 



The type and one male paratype are in the collection of the 

 Illinois Natural History Survey, the allotype, a male and a female 

 paratype are in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, and one male paratype is in the collection of The Amer- 

 ican Entomological Society. 



ANTHOMYIELLA gen n. 



This genus differs from Anlhoinyla in having the propleura hare 

 ccphalad of the spiracle, and in having a very long strong bristle 

 on dorsal surface of fore tibia distad of middle, the latter possessed 

 by no allied genus known to me. 



Genotype. — Anthomyia pratincola Panzer. 

 Anthiomyiella pratincola (Panzer) 



This European s})ecies is very widely distril)uted thi-oughout 

 North AuKM'ica, occurring conunonly on various flowers such as 

 golden rod. 1 ha\-e taken it conunonly on Chry^opsh and Solidago 

 in the sand regions of Illinois. 



There is one specimen in the collection before me from Swarth- 

 more, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1905, [A. E. S.]. 



