108 D. W. COQUILLETT. 



Apliiebaiitiis f'licatus n. sp. '^ .—Black, knob of halteres, tibiie and 

 base of tarsi yellowish. Pile of head and body, also bristles and scales of thorax 

 and scutelluru, and scales of abdomen, white or yellowish ; front and face desti- 

 tute of scales, face unusually short, slightly retreating below, proboscis project- 

 ing the length of its labellse beyond the epistoma ; styliforni portion of third 

 antennal joint twice as long as the thickened basal part; scutellum opaque, 

 rounded behind, whole surface pilose and scaly; wings hyaline, the costal, first 

 and second basal, anal except at apex, also bases of marginal, first submarginal 

 and of axillary cells, smoky brown ; hind femora with several long hairs below ; 

 eyes of male contiguous. Length 4 mm. 



Southern California. Three males, in April. 



TIILIPNOGA^iTER Kondani. 



Two species, which I refer to this genus, possess the following 

 characters in common : Eyes contiguous in the male, widely sepa- 

 rated in the female ; three ocelli present. Antennae as long as the 

 head, first joint slender, not thicker than the second, the latter a 

 trifle longer than wide, the third slightly longer than the first two, 

 hare ; terminal style very small, ti[)ped with a minute bristle. Front 

 flat, face projecting on same plane as the front. Proboscis projecting 

 beyond tip of antennae, labellre narrow, palpi not reaching oral mar- 

 gin. Scutellum convex. One marginal, two submarginal and four 

 posterior cells, the first posterior cell closed at or near the margin 

 of the wing, the other posterior cells open, as is also the anal ; first 

 basal cell slightly longer than the second, last section of the fourth 

 vein straight, no cross-vein connecting the anterior branch of the 

 third vein with the second or third veins; furcation of second and 

 third veins occurs before the ba.se of the discal cell ; marginal cell 

 not greatly expanded at its apex, second vein meeting the costa at 

 an acute angle. All tibiae and the posterior femora j)rovided with 

 bristles, pulvilli distinct, no empodium. 



Tlilipsogaster syiidexiims n. sp. % 9. — Opaque black, the front, face, 

 cheeks, first two antennal joints, pali)i, femora, tibite, base of tarsi, halteres, 

 entire abdomen of female, but only the apex in the male, yellow. Pile and to- 

 mentum of front, face and antennse yellow in the female, that on ocellar triangle, 

 antennfe and face largely black in the n)alc. ; a dense cluster of snow white to- 

 mentum on each side of auteniiiB ; pile and tomentum of occijmt, thorax, pleura, 

 coxfe, scutellum, abdomen and venter yellowish white, bristles of legs black. 

 Wings hyaline, costal cell yellowish. Length 5-6 mm. 



Southern California. One male and three females. 



ThlipsoS"'***'** »t<»r n. sp. %. — Opaque black, the tihia>, apex of femora 

 and base of tarsi, yellow; knob of halteres dark brown. Pile and tomentum 



