122 PR()(JEEDIN<;S OF THE NATIOXAI. MUSEUM. voi,. xxv. 



female one and one-fourth times as wide as either e^^e, one pair of 

 orl)ita1 bristles in the female, frontals descending nearly to middle 

 of second antennal joint, sides of face covered with rather short ])ristl_v 

 hairs on the upper half, antennte from two-thirds to three-fourths as 

 long as the face, the third joint in the male nearly twice, in the female 

 one and one-half times as long as the second, longest hairs of arista 

 nearly three times as long as its greatest diameter, cheeks one-seventh 

 as wide as the eye height, proboscis very short and robust, labella very 

 large; body densely yellowish gra}' pruinose, mesonotum with four 

 indistinct darker vitta^, three pairs of postsutural dorsocentrals, two 

 sternopleurals. hairs of middle of dorsum of abdomen depressed, first 

 segment without dorsal bristles, the following two with a marginal 

 row of rather short ones; hind tibia not ciliate, pulvilli of male 

 elongate; wings and veins yellowish, third vein bearing two bristles 

 near the base, fourth vein broadl}- arcuate at the bend, ending just 

 above the wingtip, hind crossvein nearly midwa}^ l^etween the small 

 and bend of fourth; calypteres yellow; length, 9 mm. A specimen of 

 each sex collected May 6, 1900, by Prof. James S. Hine, 



llahitat. — Vinton, Ohio. 



7}//>.-Cat. No. 6287, U.S.N.M. 



Family ANTHOMYID.E. 



PHAONIA PALLIDULA, new species. 



Male. — Head ])lack, face and frontal orbits whitish pruinose, ej^es 

 as widely separated as the posterior ocelli, frontal vitta obliterated 

 for a short distance, antenna three-fourths as long as the face, dark 

 brown, the first two joints and base of the third yellow, third joint 

 nearly twice as long as the second, longest hairs of arista three times 

 as long as greatest diameter of arista, hairs of eyes rather sparse, 

 cheeks about one-tifth as broad as the eve-height, proboscis dark 

 brown, slender and rigid, labella small and very narrow, palpi yellow, 

 narrow; thorax l)lack, bluish gra}" pruinose, marked with four indis- 

 tinct blackish vittte, three pairs of postsutural dorsocentral bristles, 

 one or two pairs of acrostichals, none in front of the suture; sterno- 

 pleurals one and two; scutellum yellow, grayish pruinose, base of upper 

 side broadly blackish; abdomen yellowish, varied with pale brownish, 

 the last two segments largely of this color, wholly gray pruinose, 

 viewed from behind discloses an interrupted bhickish dorsal vitta, 

 last two segments bearing a discal and a marginal row of bristles; ven- 

 ter yellow, an interrupted black vitta in the middle; legs 3 ellow, front 

 femora largel}' black, an interrupted pale brown band toward apices of 

 the other femora, tarsi browni; middle femora bearing a row of rather 

 long bristles on basal two-thirds of under side, the hind ones with 

 two rows of rather long ones extending nearly whole length of 



