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bristly almost to the arista ; antennae black, the third joint of male 

 slightly over four and in the female about four times the length 

 of second, arista thickened on the basal third and tapering abruptly, 

 the penultimate joint short. Thorax gray pollinose, marked with 

 four black vittae and bearing three dorsocentral macrochaetae ; 

 scutellum yellowish with four pairs of marginal bristles, the apical 

 ones horizontal. Sternopleura with three bristles. Abdomen thick, 

 black, sprinkled with gray pollen, the abdominal hairs depressed 

 in female, suberect in male but in nowise confused with the macro- 

 chaetae; first segment with one pair of marginals, second and third 

 segments with two or three irregular pairs discals and the usual 

 marginals, the fourth wholly covered with macrochaetae. Legs 

 black, the tibiae somewhat brownish, mid tibiae with two bristles 

 on the outer front side near the middle; hind tibiae ciliate, with 

 several large bristles near the middle. Wings hyaline, apical cell 

 narrowly open about one-half the length of the small cross vein, 

 fourth vein beyond the bend strongly arcuate, third vein bearing 

 two bristles at base. Hypopygium inconspicuous, black; inner for- 

 ceps with a conspicuous hump at base, which bears a few strikingly 

 long hairs directed forward, surpassing the forceps in length. 



Length 10 mm. 



Described from two males and four females, reared from Telea 

 polyphemus Cramer and Hemerocampa vetusta Boisduval at Wat- 

 sonville, Calif., by E. O. Essig, April 1920; and one female, San 

 Diego, California (Aldrich). 



Type.—Q,2.t. No. 25720, U.S.N.M. 



PHOROCERA REINHARDI, new species. 



Female. — Front 0.34 to 0.37 of the head width (in two) ; frontal 

 row" of bristles reaching to arista, the uppermost two or three recli- 

 nate; parafrontals and parafacials wider than the average, white 

 but not silvery, facial ridges with strong bristles reaching almost to 

 the arista; antennae black, second joint with dense spiny bristles, 

 third almost four times the second, reaching nearly to the vibrissae ; 

 palpi yellow, with long and rather abundant black hairs; bucca two- 

 fifths the eye height. Thorax gray with the usual stripes; dorso- 

 centrals 3, sternopleurals 3; scutellum yellowish at tip, with three 

 marginals and a slender but long apical pair. Abdomen thick in 

 profile, subglobose, of characteristic Patelloa shape, and with change- 

 able gray tessellations above, the apices of the segments hardly 

 more shining; second and third segments with small discals, the 

 hairs erect or nearly so ; first and second segments with one pair of 

 marginals. Third segment with a stout row, of which the median 

 ones are submarginal ; fourth segment with a discal row about equal 

 to the preceding and smaller marginals. Legs black; middle tibiae 

 with three bristles on outer front side; hind tibiae subciliate with 

 two longer bristles. Winsfs hvaline: third vein with 2-3 hairs at 



