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C. H. TYLER TOWNSENL. 
well opened just before tij) of wing; hind cross-vein strongly sinuate, nearer 
bend of fourth vein ; wings same shape, deeply tawny yellow on costal and basal 
portions; tegulfe tawny, partly whitish. Length 8 mm.; of wing 6 min. 
I)e.scribec1 from one specimen from iNIr. Cluis. Robertson, Carlin- 
ville, 111. 
Genus Mylomintho Rr. and Bgst., Zweifl. kais. Mus. W. iv, 138. — 
'rids genus seems to be very near Anisia v. d. AVulp. It is hardly 
possible to separate it from the description alone. 
C’lytia flava n. sj). . — Flavous yellow, thorax brassy. Head wider than 
thorax and abdomen. Eyes bare, brownish, not large; front from vertex not 
quite half way to base of autennse about one-fifth the width of head, widening 
from that point forward, at base of antenme about three-sevenths width of head ; 
sides of face and cheeks bright golden yellow, front duller golden ; frontal vitta 
and antenme, including arista, more deeply colored, flavous; frontal vitta mod- 
erately wide, with a row of weak bristles on each side extending onlj' to base of 
antennffi, decussate in front; ocellar area shining black, with usual two pairs of 
bristles, a shorter inwardly directed vertical bristle on each side of the hind 
pair; some hairs outside the frontal bristles; no orbital bristles; sides of face 
moderately narrow, bare; cheeks wide, one-half the eye-hight, bare above, hairy 
and silvery on whole lower portion where invaded by occipital area, with a row 
of bristles on lower and front borders; vibris-sse not decussate, inserted well 
above the oral margin at a constriction of the facial ridges ; facial depression 
rather wide, golden with a silvery sheen, facial ridges with a few hairs above 
vibrissse; first antennal joint short, a little bristly ; .second considerably longer, 
bristly; third joint hardly more than once and a half as long as second, slightly 
widened, rounded at apex; arista thickened a little on hasal third, microscopi- 
cally almost imperceptibly pubescent, distinctly 3-jointed, second joint quite 
elongate; proboscis not very stout, hardly as long as hight of head, brown, 
labella flavous, well developed ; palpi small, pale yellowish or whitish, sub -fili- 
form, slightly thickened excejit at base, black bristly on thickened portions; 
occiput cinereous on upper half, pale silvery yellowish on lower half, gray hairy, 
with fringe of black hairs on orbital margins. Thorax and scutellum brassy- 
cinereous; humeri yellowish, pleuraj cinereous; scutellum more or less broadly 
yellowish on apical portion, with a decussate or not decussate apical pair of 
macrochffitte and a single lateral one; thorax hairy and somewhat bristly, meso- 
notum with two thread-like dark vittfe becoming obsolete at transverse suture, 
and outside them a less distinct one extending farther posteriorly but interrupted 
at the suture. Abdomen oblong, slightly vaulted, first segment not shortened; 
whole abdomen clothed with short black hairs, deep yellow or more fulvous 
posteriorly, a more or less irregularly triangular, posterior, median black spot on 
second and third segments; first two segments each with a median marginal pair 
of macrochfetfe, and a lateral marginal one; third segment with about ten mar- 
ginal, anal segment with eight or more marginal macrochfetffi ; venter yellow, 
black bristly. Legs deep tawny yellow, black hairy and bristly, especially hind 
tibiie, tarsi darker; claws and ])ulvilli elongate. Triups longer than abdomen, 
moderately narrow, nearly hyaline, pale flavous on costo-basal portion, without 
costal spine, thii-d vein usually slightly spined at base; apical cell narrowly 
