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C. H. TYI.ER TOWNSEND. 
.llilt og;raiiiina oiiierascens n. sp. 9 (?)— Differs from M. jlmncornis as 
follows; Smaller, wholly golden-cinereous. Front narrower, fi-ontal bristles 
sparse, less numerous; three orbital bristles; front, face and cheeks light golden, 
sides of face finely hairy; frontal vitta a little deeper golden, blackish toward 
antennse; antennte dull blackish, second joint reddish at tip, third joint only a 
little longer than second ; arista black, thickened only at base, bulbous, rather 
indistinctly jointed ; facial dei)ression narrower, sides of face slightly wider, 
scarcely any bristles on facial ridges above vibrissse ; proboscis black, brown at 
base; pal])i stouter, club-shaped, light brown, iji one specimen dark brown, 
lighter at base. Thorax, scutellum and abdomen almost entirely cinereous, the 
abdomen with more of a golden reflection, hind borders of the segments usually 
darker; a weak lateral macrochreta on margin of first abdominal segment; sec- 
ond segment with a lateral maginal one and a median marginal pair; third with 
about eight, and anal segment with about six marginal macrochietse. Claws and 
pulyilli only slightly elongate. Wings smaller, halteres flavous. Length 4.5 to 
nearly 5 mm. ; of wing — 3§ mm. 
Described from three specimens received from Mr. Cliarles Rob- 
ertson, Carlinville, 111. 
.Hiisieera iiig^ritsi n. sp. % . — Black, shining, somewhat cinereous. Thorax 
and abdomen about same width, head a little wider. £’i/c.'? brown, bare; front 
about one-third the width of head, considerably produced before, face much 
wider; front and f;ice silvery pollinose, cheeks toward oral margin narrowly 
reddish or brownish ; frontal vitta blackish, about one-third width of front, 
pronged behind enclosing ocelli; frontal bristles descending about to base of 
third antennal joint; a pair of bristles at each vertical angle, the inner long 
one directed backward, the outer short one directed outward ; next two on each 
side directed backward, the posterior one also outward, remainder directed in- 
ward. more or less decussate; no orbital bristles; a row of bristly hairs outside 
the frontal bristles; ocellar area with a pair of rather strong bristles in front 
directed forward and a little outward, and a very short pair behind at the vertex ; 
sides of face moderately narrow, bare; cheeks replaced beneath the eyes by an 
extension of the occipital area, bordered below by some strong bristles; vibrissse 
decus.sate, inserted almo.st on the oral margin ; face strongly oblicjue, receding, 
facial depression rather wide, considerably hollowed, a little elongate; facial 
ridges with a few bristles above the vibrissse, surmounted by several fine hairs; 
antennse shorter than the face, blackish ; first joint short, second a little longer, 
bristly before; third about four times the length of the second, a little widened, 
truncate at apex, the posterior corner rounded ; arista black, minutely pubescent, 
thickened more than half its length, apparently only 2-jointed, the basal joint 
very short; ))roboscis black or brownish, short, thick, fleshy, not so long as bight 
of head, labella well developed; palpi blackish, rather thick, curved, club- 
shajied, short hairy with several longer hairs on lower surface before tip ; occijmt 
black, more or less cinereous, black hairy with fringe of bristly hairs on orbital 
margins. Thorax and scutellum black, somewhat cinereous, black hairy and 
bristly; thorax with a median ])air of narrow, posteriorly divergent, blackish 
vittse in front, becoming obsolete about the suture; two lateral pairs of stout 
macrochietffi on scutellum. the hind pair reaching nearly to base of third ab- 
dominal segment, apical pair directed almost straight ujnvard and curved inward, 
strongly decussate ; humeri and pleurae cinereous or slightly silvery. Abdomen 
