392 NEW EASTERN ANTHOMYIIDAE 



wide as the length, of the third antennal joint. Mesonotum and scutellum 

 subshining seal brown, with scarcely a trace of stripes; pleura, metanotum and a 

 basal triangle on the scutellum grayish-white poUinose w^ith a brassy tinge. 

 Abdomen grayish-white polhnose with a brassy tinge, with three pairs of 

 large seal brown triangles and an elongate median spot on the fourth segment. 

 Setae of the legs as in the male, except that the seta on the flexor surface of 

 the fore tibia and one of the setae of the extensor surface of the hind tibia 

 may be wanting. Ithaca, New York, June. 



Type (male) and paratypes in the Cornell University Collec- 

 tion. Paratypes (two males and one female) in the collection 

 of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



Mydaeinae 



The subgenera Mydaea, Spilogaster, and Spilaria of the genus 

 Mydaea are represented in the New York fauna. 



Mydaea (Spilaria) pectinata n. sp. 



Male. Length 9 mm. Head black with grayish bloom, eyes separated on 

 the front by the rather narrow silvery-gray orbits and a still narrower black 

 frontal stripe which expands over the front at the base of the antennae; front 

 buccate; genae black, silvery pruinose, at the base of the antennae in profile 

 nearly twice as wide as the width of the third antennal joint; buccae in profile 

 nearly as wide as the length of the third antennal joint; antennae black, 

 elongate but not attaining the oral margin; third joint three times the second 

 in length; arista long plumose; second joint with two or three strong, and 

 several smaller setae; eyes quite hairy; palpi black. Thorax black, grayish 

 pruinose; mesonotum with four black stripes, the two median narrower; 

 two inner dorso-centrals in front of the scutellum; dorso-centrals 2 -{-4; "pra" 

 fine, about a third as long as the seta which follows it; sterno-pleurals l-|-2, 

 below the posterior pair sometimes with one additional, but more slender, 

 bristle. Abdomen ovate, black, with a coarse or flaky yellowish-gray bloom; 

 second and third segments (if but four are counted) each with a pair of large, 

 rather narrowly divided, rounded, brownish-black spots; long fine discal 

 setae on the third and fourth segments, the marginal setae of each segment 

 rather depressed; hypopygium inconspicuous (figs. 12, 13). Legs yellow, the 

 fore femur except the tip, the basal two-thirds of the middle femur, the imme- 

 diate base and a spot on the extensor side at the tip of each hind femur, and 

 aU the tarsi, black. Fore femur with a close row of long fine setae on the outer 

 flexor side and another on the extensor side, the latter scarc^ely differentiated 

 from the long setulae which cover this member; middle fe^iiur covered with 

 long setulae, especially long near the base on the anterior side, with a row of 

 long slender setae extending for two-thirds the length from the base on the 

 posterior flexor side, a tuft of six to eight long stout setae or spines at the base, 

 and a few stout ones apically on the posterior extensor side; hind femur with a 



