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and June 3, 1876, by Mr. Edward Burgess. Also a female specimen 

 collected Ma}" 12, IIHIO, in Chambly County, Quebec, Canada, received 

 for naming- from Mr. C. W. Johnson, of Philadelphia, to whom it has 

 been returned. 



Ilahltat. — Beverly, jMassachusetts. 



Tijpe.—<CdX. No. 0210, U.S.N.M. 



Family MICROPP:ZID.E. 



CALOBATA VITTIPENNIS, new species. 



Head reddish brown, whitish pruinose, lower part of front Idack 

 and somewhat polished, followed by a velvet black fascia expanded in 

 the form of a tooth in the middle below and also above on either side 

 of the ocelli, vertex, except the ocellar triangle, steel-blue, polished; 

 one pair of postvertical bristles, two wideh' separated pairs of vertical 

 and one pair of orbital bristles; antenna reddish brown, the third 

 joint twice as long as wide, arista bare; clypeus and palpi reddish 

 i)rown, proboscis dark brown; body bluish 1)lack, grayish pruinose, 

 the humeri, propleura, and hypopygium reddish brown, two or three 

 bristles in front of each middle coxa; legs dark brown, extreme bases 

 of middle femora and two bands on their apical half yellowish, hind 

 femora yellow, a Ijroad median band and a narrower one midway 

 l)etween it and the apex brown, front tarsi except base of first joint 

 whitish, changing to yellow toward the apex; wings grayish hyaline, 

 slightly tinged w^ith yellow along the costa, tirst posterior cell brown, 

 this color encroaching on the submarginal cell at its apex and on the 

 middle and upper part of the apical half of the discal cell; apex of tirst 

 vein far before the small crossvein, last section of fourth vein one and 

 one-tifth times as long as distance between apices of second and third 

 veins, anal cell prolonged over halfway from the fifth vein to the wing 

 margin; length, 6 to \) mm. Four males and three females collected 

 April 2T to 29 by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend. 



Habitat. — Frontera, Mexico. 



Type.—OAi. No. 6261, U.S.N.M. 



Family TRYPETIDxF. 



SPILOGRAPHA FRACTUKA, new species. 



Yellow, an ocellar dot and band beyond middle of hypopygium 

 black; face strongly retreating below, mesonotum subopaque, thinh' 

 gray pruinose, bristles of thorax and the four on scutellum black, 

 short hairs of mesonotum chiefly black, abdomen polished, its hairs 

 black; wings hyaline, a black spot fills stigma and crosses marginal 

 cell, a ])lack band begins at first vein above forking of the second and 

 third and extends to apex of anal cell; a black cloud on small and 



