NO. 1935. MUSCOID FLIES FROM SOUTH AMERICA— TOWN SEND. 335 

 EUDEJEANIA NIGRA, new species. 



Length of body, 15 to 16 mm.; same to end of abdominal spines, 

 18 to 19 mm,; of wing, 15.5 to 16 mm.; of palpi, 3.75 to 4.5 mm. 

 Breadth of abdomen, 9 to 10 mm. Two females and one male, 

 Matucana, Pera, on west slope of Cordillera Occidental, valley of Rio 

 Rimac, about 7,800 feet, April 4, 1910, on flowers of Cyclanthera, sp. 



Differs from E. subalpina as follows: Head luteous, only faintly 

 fuscous on faciaJ plate if at all, the pollen entirely golden, the beard 

 or main occipital pile rather deep golden. Palpi rust-3''ellow. Entire 

 thorax and abdomen soft deep black, practically mthout pollen, only 

 the faintest traces showing on sides of venter and pleurae. Legs 

 nearly concolorous throughout, of a deep yellow witli a rust tinge, the 

 tibise a little clearer yellow, the femora slightly if at all darker. 

 Tegidse deep soft black, being same color as the body and the dense 

 spinose macrochaetse, and much darker than wings. Longitudinal 

 veins of wings distinctly yellow. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15174, U.S.N.M. Female; TD 4061. 



LASIOPALPUS SUBALPINUS, new species. 



Length of body, 11 mm. not including the apical abdominal macro- 

 chsetse; of wing 12 mm. One female, Watkins's Camp in canyon of 

 the Rio San Gaban, east slope of Cordillera Oriental in high montana 

 of southern Peru, about 11,500 feet, February 16, 1910, on flowers of 

 a shrub. 



Head fuscous, thinly clothed with silvery pollen, the cheeks pale 

 yellowish-brown. Antennae black, frontalia light brown. Palpi and 

 their cilia deep black. Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen yellomsh-red, 

 the disk of mesoscutum dull olive. Femora nearly same yellowish- 

 red as abdomen or a little lighter, tibiae still lighter, tarsi bright yellow. 

 The anterior tarsi are much widened and flattened (female) . Wings 

 deeply smoky throughout. The abdomen is emSrginate posteriorly, 

 bearing two thick bunches of spines. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15175, U.S.N.M. 



Deposits colored maggots on foliage. 



Family MASICERATID^. 



Subfamily MIASICER^TIN^E. 



Genus OPHIROSTURMIA Townsend. 



Ophirosturmia Townsend, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 4, 1911, pp. 133, 145. 



General characters of Sturmia, but hind tibiae not ciliate and head 

 rather of a Meigeniine cast. Eyes of female very indistinctly and 

 sparsely short-hairy. Front of female at vertex about one and one- 

 fourth times width of one eye, evenly widening forward and face 



