NO 1225. .SOME XEW DIPTERA—COQUILLETT. (>15 



the submargiinil, etc.: length, 7 nun. A female specimen ciiptured by 

 the writer. 



Ilahitat. — Los Angeles County, California. 



Typt.—Oat. No. 5500. U.S.N.M. 



Family SCIOMYZID/E. 



TETANOCERA SETOSA, new species. 



Head yellow, the face, cheeks, occiput, and narrow lateral margins 

 of the front, white pruinose, an elongated brown spot l)elow lower 

 end of each eye, a brown ocellar dot, front opaque, a median line and 

 streak at each lower corner, brown, antenna? 3^ellow, the third joint 

 orange yellow, slighth^ shorter than the very broad second joint, the 

 latter bearing two strong spines near apex of upper side, the third joint 

 considerably concave on the outer upper portion, arista black, long 

 plumose, palpi yellow, proboscis brownish; body brown, thinly whit- 

 ish pruinose, mesonotum marked with four brown vittte. the median 

 pair very narrow, a broad brown vitta on upper part of pleura and 

 two on the scutellum; mesopleura covered with short hairs and with 

 two bristles along the hind edge, pteropleura bearing one or two 

 bristles, otherwise bare, sternopleura covered with short hairs and 

 bearing a single bristle; halteres and legs yellow, apices of tibige 

 brown; wings pale brownish, darker brown in the marginal cell, cov- 

 ered with pale yellowish and whitish dots and spots, the largest 

 located in the marginal cell; length, 6 to 7 mm. Nine specimens, of 

 both sexes. 



Habitat. — New Bedford (Dr. Garry de N. Hough) and Barnstable 

 (August 5. E. Burgess), Massachusetts and Georgia (H. K. Morrison). 



Type.— (Zvii. No. 5501. U.S.N.M. 



SCIOMYZA GUTTATA, new species. 



Head yellow, upper part of occiput and three vitta? on upper half 

 of front black, gray pruinose, a brown dot at base of each ])ristle, 

 front opaque, two pairs of orbital bristles, a velvet black spot on each 

 side of base of antenna?, the latter yellow, along the upper edge brown, 

 arista brown, short plumose, mouth parts yellowish; bodv black, 

 thickly dotted with brown, a brown vitta on upper part of pleura and 

 one on the sternopleura, a brown spot in center of scutellum; poste- 

 rior upper corner of mesopleura and upper portion of sternopleura 

 bearing many short hairs, pteropleura bearing one or two bristles and 

 a few hairs; legs brown, the front coxte, a ring beyond middle of 

 each middle and hind femur, the middle tibia? except their apices, 

 middle of each hind tibiji? and the middle and hind tarsi except their 

 apices, yellow; knobs of halteres brown, the stems yellow; wings 



