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Var. a. % . The posterior tibiae black. 

 Connecticut, Illinois, Georgia, (Klug). 



5. Macrophya lineata, n. sp. 



Black : mouth, tegulse, collar, stripe on pleura, legs (in part) and a band on 

 hinder tibipe yellow. Length 0.30. Br. wings 0.60 inch. 



9 • Body short, moderately stout; antennae as in M. pnJchella; head 

 as wide as thorax ; mouth, tegulae, collar and stripe across pleura straw- 

 white ; legs black ; tips of coxae, trochanters, the anterior pair before, 

 the intermediate tibiae, except at tip, base of hinder femora, a band in 

 middle of their tibiae, and all the tibiae, except at tip, yellow; wings 

 faintly clouded, stigma and costa black; lanceolate cell closed. 



Farmington, Conn. One 9 . 



0. M. flavicoxae. 



A/fantxs flavicoTce, Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 1860, 258, 43. J. 

 Macrophya flavicoxae, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, 118. 

 Black; mouth, tegulse, collar, coxse, and a band on posterior tibi<ie yellow. 

 Length 0.32. Br. wings 0.65 inch. 



9 . Body moderately stout; antennae as long as to base of thorax, 

 compressed in middle ; head wide, polished, punctured, as in M. pul- 

 chella ; nasus incurved, labrum rounded, both, with tegulae and collar, 

 yellow; legs mostly pale yellow; a band on the four anterior femora, 

 a slender line down the tibiae above, (sometimes wanting on medial 

 pair), their tips and tips of their tarsi, apical half of posterior femora, 

 base and apex of their tibiae, base of their first tarsal joint and apex of 

 the last, black; lower half of hinder coxte waxen, hinder tibial spurs 

 very long, claws large, inner tooth near the tip ; wings faintly clouded, 

 nervures blackish ; lanceolate cell closed. 



% . All the legs mostly pale yellow; apex of posterior femora and 

 their tibiae black. 



Me., Conn., N. Y., N. J., Va., 111. 



Common. All the specimens examined but one, are females. 



7. M. incertus. 



AUantufi incertus, Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 18R0, 258, 44, % . 

 Macrophya incertus, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, 118. 

 Black; mouth, tegulse, collar and legs pale yellow, apex of posterior femora 

 and their tibise black. Length 0.30. Br. wings 0.60 inch. 



% . Body rather slender, apex of abdomen rounded; antennae and 

 punctures as in M. flovicoxx ; clypeus deeply incurved, enclosing la- 

 brum; both, with the tegulae, collar and legs pale yellow; a white spot 

 on hinder coxae near the apex ; a slender line down the anterior tibial 

 and tips of their tarsi; most of basal half of hinder coxae, apical half 

 of their femora, their tibiae, base of first tarsal joint and apex of the 



