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of anteroventral bristles and a partial series on basal half of posteroventral 

 surface; hind tibia with two anterodorsal and two anteroventral bristles, the 

 anterior and posterior surfaces with some short setulose hairs on middle. 

 Outer cross-vein curved. 



Female. — Similar to the male in color and bristling of the legs. Inter- 

 frontalia without hairs on sides. Fore tibia with two posterior bristles; hind 

 femur with a few weak posteroventral bristles. 



Length, 9 mm. 



The puparium is brownish red, shining, cylindrical, the e.xtremities rounded, 

 surface with microscopic transverse striae and a less distinct irregular network 

 of short linear impressions. The metathoracic spiracles are elevated, about 

 as high as thick, glossy; each segment has a transverse series of minute wart- 

 like elevations which does not extend clear round the bod}-; being widely 

 interrupted ventrally, the apical segment having the transverse series very 

 much shorter than those on other segments and connected with three longi- 

 tudinal series, one in center and one at each extremity which extend midway 

 to posterior spiracles, the latter small, blackish, but Uttle elevated, separated 

 by over twice the width of either; anal opening small, situated some distance 

 from apex. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Type. — Hagerstown, Maryland, June 24, 1916, reared from 

 tipidid pupa, Ace. no. 14022 (H. L. Parker), [U. S. N. M.]. 



Allotype. — Halfway House, Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, 

 July 6, 1914, (C. W. Johnson). 



Paratypes, males; Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts, May 21, 

 1916; Raynham, Massachusetts, April 29, 1916, (F. X. Williams) ; 

 Lunnenburg, Massachusetts, May 21, 1916, (S. M. Dohanian). 



Phaonia pallidula Coquillett 



Phaonia pallidula Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, p. 122. 



Phaonia dulci.H Stein, Arch, fiir Naturges., abt. A. 1918, heft 9, p. 5, 1920. 



Male. — Black, subopaque. Head black, cheeks brownish, orbits, face, 

 parafacials, and cheeks den.sely silver}' white pruinescent; anteimae brownish 

 yellow, third segment infuscated except at base; palpi yellow. Thorax 

 densely gray pruinescent, with four conspicuous brown vittae. Abdomen 

 largely yellowish testaceous, bases of tergites fuscous and with g'ay prui- 

 nescence, each tergite with an elongate central black sp)ot. Leg.s yellowish 

 testaceous, fore femora except apices, and mid and hind femora each with a 

 broad band beyond middle fuscous; tarsi pale. Wings clear, veins broAvn, 

 yellow at bases, cross-veins very inconspicuously infuscated. (^alyptrae 

 white. Halteres yellow. 



Eyes spar.sely hairy, separated l)y distance across posterior ocelli; orbits 

 contiguous above middle, with bristles on anterior half and one or two short 



TRANS. A.M. EXT. SOC, XLVHI. 



