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wide as either eye. a row of stout bristles outside of the frontals, 

 ocellars present, large, sides of front 3^ellowish gray, the face and 

 cheeks whitish pruinose, sides of face bearing several short bristly 

 hairs on the lower portion, antennae nearly as long as the face, the third 

 joint almost six times as long as the second; thorax gray pruinose, 

 marked with four black vitta?, apical pair of scutellar bristles nearly 

 horizontal, abdomen gra3ash pruinose and with darker reflecting spots, 

 second and third segments bearing marginal bristles; hind tibia* on the 

 outer-anterior side evenl_v ciliate with short bristles and with a much 

 longer one at the middle; wings hyaline, third vein l)earing two 

 l)ristles near the base, calypteres white; length. 9 mm. A male speci- 

 men collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison. 



TIal>iUit. — Georgia. 



Tyjx^.—Cvit. No. 0230, U.S.N.M. 



GiEDIOPSIS OCELLARIS, new species. 



Differs iromf(/r/'if//'s as follow^s: Antennae and abdomen black, lower 

 portion of sides of front, the face and fourth abdominal segment 

 densely golden yellow pruinose; sides of face bearing two irregular 

 rows of bristles, ocellar bristles wanting, a pair of marginal bristles 

 on the lirst abdominal segment; length. nun. A male specimen 

 collected June 18, 1891, by Prof. James S. Hine. 



Ilah! tat. ^Oh\o. 



7}/7A^.— Cat. No. 0229, U.S.N.M. 



PARAPHYTO SARCOPHAGINA, new species. 



Black, the antenna\ face, and cheeks reddish brown, palpi yellow; 

 vertex one- fourth as wide as either eye, sides of face bearing a few 

 short bristly hairs on the upper edge, antenna? ha'f as long as the 

 face, the third joint scarcely longer than the second, longest hairs of 

 arista slightly longer than greatest diameter of arista, vibrisste a 

 short distance above oral margin, cheeks nearly half as wide as the 

 eye height, head at vibrissa^ slightly shorter than at base of antenna, 

 proboscis slender, labella unusually slender; thorax gray pruinose 

 and marked with three black vittse, three pairs of postsutural dorso- 

 central bristles, two sternopieurals, scutellum bearing three marginal 

 pairs, the third pair cruciate; abdomen grayish pruinose and with 

 darker reflecting spots, hairs depressed, second and third segments 

 with marginal bristles, the fourth with a submarginal row of large 

 bristles and a marginal row of small ones; claws and pulvilli verj- 

 long; wings hyaline, tinged with A^ellowish toward the base, third 

 vein bearing three bristles near the base, calypteres whitish; length, 

 10 mm. A male specimen collected liy Mr. Charles Robertson. 



Ilahititt. — Carlinville, Illinois. 



7]/7A'.— Cat. No. 0231, U.S.N.M. 



