380 S. W. Williston — Nortli American Conopidm. 



wliitish pollinose ; the upper side of all the femora more or less 

 broadly black, a spot on the under side of each femur, near the 

 outer part, and two narrow rings on each tibia, black, the basal one 

 of the hind tibiae more brownish ; tip of claws black. Wings dis- 

 tinctly tinged with brownish in front, sub hyaline behind, yellow at 

 the immediate base, the anterior cross-vein lightly clouded. 



Hab. New Mexico ! 



Two specimens (G. F. Gaumer). 



Zodion leucostoma, n. sp. 



(5 $. Length, 9-11'°'". Face yellowish white, silvery; front 

 light yellow below, reddish above ; antennse light red ; occiput, 

 except the vertex and the sides below, blackish, with light colored 

 pollen. Thorax red, the pleurae more or less, and the metanotum, 

 black or blackish ; dorsum, except the sides and behind, black or 

 brown, visible as a more or less distinct narrow median stripe, and 

 a lateral stripe or large elongated spot : in the middle there is a 

 pair of gray pollinose stripes, confluent in front and reaching to 

 beyond the middle; on the sides of the doi'sum the same pollen is to 

 be seen, encroaching more or less upon the black or brown ; margin 

 of the scutellum broadly pollinose. Abdomen yellow or red, or 

 more or less blackish, but characteristically marked with light gray 

 pollen as follows : On the second segment, forming a broad band, 

 leaving the anterior corners and two more or less confluent oval spots 

 behind ; third segment with an oblique spot on each side, and the 

 narrow hind margin; the fourth segment, except an oval spot on 

 each side and the anterior corners ; fifth and sixth segment wholly. 

 Legs yellowish red, the tip of hind tibitc behind and the tip of the 

 tarsi blackish. Wings with a brownish tinge. 



Hab. Western Kansas, Montana, Arizona ! 



Three specimens, Montana, Arizona (Professor Comstock), and 

 Western Kansas, August. In the specimen from Montana the second 

 abdominal segment is marked like the third. 



Zodion fulvifrons Say. 



(5 ?. Length, G-9""". Face yellowish wliite, silvery dusted; 

 front reddish yellow, often brownish above; antenna; red, the second 

 joint, an<l the third joint at the base, often blackish. Occiput black, 

 whitish pollinose. Thorax bhick, tiiickly gray pollinose, the dorsum 

 with two abbreviated, rather distant, slender blackish stripes ; in 

 addition there is often the beginning ol two median ones in fit^nt 



