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of white pile below ; proboscis black, the basal joint rather longer 

 than the femora; front brownish yellowish. Eyes small, their 

 vertical diameter less than the width of the cheeks. Antennae 

 reddish brownish. Pile of the front short, sparse, black. Thorax 

 black, the sides and hind part of the dorsum, the scutellum, and 

 the larger part of the pleurae reddish ; dorsum with two slender, 

 indistinct stripes in front, and two spots in front of the scutellum, 

 brownish yellowish pollinose; pile black, rather abundant and long, 

 especially on the post-alar callosities and border of the scutellum. 

 Abdomen not very broad, shining black, the terminal segments 

 above, in part red ; second and following segments white pollinose, in 

 the form of a large triangle, which in front may be truncate 

 or emarginate ; pile black, rather conspicuous on the sides in front. 

 Legs stout, black, with black pile ; the tip of all the femora, the 

 base and tip and a median ring of all the tibiae, and the first four 

 joints of all the tarsi yellow, last joint of the tarsi brown. Wings 

 in front rather strongly and broadly clouded with brown, the imme- 

 diate base and a transverse spot at the origin of the third vein 

 yellow, a blackish cloud on the anterior cross-vein and brownish 

 spots in the first and second posterior cells. 



Hab. Arizona and California ! 



One specimen from Professor Comstock, and four specimens from 

 ^Ir. D. W. Coquillet. 



Myopa pilosa, n. sp. 



$ . Length, 6""™. Face yellownsh white, reddish on the sides 

 above; cheeks rather thickly white pilose below, in width rather 

 greater than the vertical diameter of the eyes ; proboscis black, 

 the basal joint very distinctly shorter than the femora ; antennae red, 

 the second joint brownish above. Front reddish yellow, the upper 

 part of the occiput similarly colored, with more or less brownish ; 

 pile of the front long and abundant, black. Thorax black, the 

 humeri, lateral margins of the dorsum, the posterior part in front of 

 the scutellum, and the scutellum wholly, red ; pleurae reddish, but 

 with ill-defined blackish spots ; dorsum with two faintly perceptible 

 whitish stripes in front, pile long and black. Abdomen rather 

 narrow, black toward the front, the hind segments becoming wholly 

 red ; the anterior segments behind on each side, the posterior ones 

 wholly lightly yellowish white pollinose; pile of the whole abdomen 

 long, erect, abundant, and black. Legs yellowish i-ed ; rather thickly 

 black |»ilose ; the femora with an incomplete ring near lip and the 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. VI. 48 March, 1885. 



