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pule l)rowni8h, darker brown along outer half of eosta and at apex, 

 thickly covered with whitish hyaline dots except the apex, marg-inal 

 cell lieyond apex of tirst vein containing two pairs of whitish spots, 

 and a small dot in its extreme apex; length 3 mm, A female 

 specimen. 



Ilohltat. — Texas. 



7y7><^— Cat. No. 5502, U.S.N.M. 



SCIOMYZA ALBOVARIA, new species. 



Head yellow, upper part of occiput and three vitt* on the front black, 

 gray pruinose. the median vitta reaching slightly below center of front 

 and bordered each side with orange brown, the lateral ones each form- 

 ing a tooth below the lowest of the two frontal bristles, ])elow which 

 it is very narrowly extended to lowei- end of the front, a ])lack or 

 brown spot on each side of base of antenn{\?, one on lower part of face, 

 two on each cheek and one near middle of each occipital orbit; antennte 

 orange yellow, the arista brown, rather long plumose, its base and the 

 mouth parts yellow, apices of palpi brown; thorax brown, grayish 

 pruinose, mesonotum marked with four brown vitta?, a broad brown 

 vitta on upper part of pleura and usually one on the sternopleura; 

 mesopU'ura l)are. a few short hairs above the front coxa?, pteropleura 

 ])earing one or two bristles and a few hairs, sternopleura covered with 

 short hairs; scutellum yellowish, a central ))rown spot; alidomen pol- 

 ished, brown, apices of the segments and male genitalia yellowish, 

 opaque, gray pruinose; legs of male yellow, bases of middle and hind 

 coxa^ and both ends of all femora and tibite brown, tarsi toward their 

 apices brownish, the last joint yellowish-white; in the female the front 

 femora and joints 2 to 4 of front tarsi blackish, 5 brown, 1 whitish; 

 wings whitish hvalin(\ costal cell purer white, costal margin beyond 

 apex of tirst vein continued around apex of Aving, and a l)order to most 

 of the veins except the tirst three, brown, veins brown, the humeral 

 crossvein. auxiliary and tirst vein, except middle of the latter, usually 

 the tirst section of the third, and the second vein from near its base to 

 apex of the hrst, whitish; halteres yellow; length, 3 to 5 mm. Two 

 males and three females. 



Jhihitat. — New York (Nathan Banks); White Mountains, New 

 Hampshire, and North Carolina (H. K. Morrison). 



Tyjh. —C^t. No. 5503, U.S.N.M. 



NEUROCTENA FUMIDA, new species. 



Head and its members yellow, the front, except its upper angles and 

 an ocellar spot, dark velvety orange, shading below into light j-ellow; 

 antennal arista pubescent, apically brown; thorax, scutellum, and legs 

 reddish yellow, tarsi black; abdomen black, base of first segment and 

 apex of abdomen l)eyond hind margin of fifth reddish yellow; halteres 



