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Rhingia nasica. (Plate V, fig. 3, 3a.) 



RhUufut nasica Say, J. Acad., Phil., iii, 94; Compl. Wr., ii, 81; Wiedemann^ 

 Aiiss. Z\v. lus., ii, 115, 1. 



Habitat. — Atlantic States, Indiana, Kentucky! 



^,9. Length, 8°"". Frontal triangle small, blackish; front in female 

 black, lightly whitish dusted, pile short, black. Antennae yeUowish- 

 red, third joint cordate in outline, a little larger in the female. Face 

 led, more or less brownish on the cheeks. Thorax shining black, with 

 two broad, whitish pollinose, dorsal stripes ; pile black, very short in 

 the female. Scutellum in the female wholly translucent, amber-colored, 

 with very short pile, except a row of black bristles on the border ; in 

 the male largely blackish at the base, the pile longer, black, and with 

 a row of black hairs on its border. Abdomen black, with two pairs of 

 large yellow or reddish spots on the second and third segments ; the 

 first segment in large part obscure yellow. The black of the second 

 and third segments opaque, fourth segment wholly shining greenish- 

 black ; pile orange or yellow ; the female with less, nearly bare, except 

 on the second segment. Venter light yellow on basal portion. Legs in 

 large part brownish-yellow ; femora black, a ring on the tibise,and the 

 posterior metatarsi brown. Wings with a strong yellowish or brownish 

 tinge. 



Numerous specimens ; New England, Indiana (Coquillett), Kentucky. 



EUGENIAMYIA.* 



Eugeniamyia Willistou, Canada Entomologist, xiv, 80, 1882; Proc. Am. Phil. 

 Soc, XX, 309. 

 $ . Rather large, dark ferruginous red species, nearly bare, with 

 short hairs. Head narrower than the thorax. Eyes bare, contiguous. 

 Antennfe situated below the middle of the eyes in profile, short, third 

 joint short and quadrate; arista basal, plumose. Posterior orbits swol- 

 len. Face much produced downwards and forwards, somewhat conical, 

 truncate, with an obtuse, i)rominent tubercle in the middle. Thorax 

 longer than broad ; in front and above the root of the wings, the post- 

 alar callosities, and on the border of the scutellum, with strong bristles. 

 Abdomen elongate, nearly twice the length of the thorax, of nearly 

 equal width throughout, narrower than the thorax. Femora all swollen, 

 and with short bristles below, hind femora more swollen and elongate, 

 and the spurs stouter, tibiie with a circlet of short spines at the tip, the 

 hind pair with short spines scattered irregularly over their outer surface. 

 \Yings as in Brachyopa.the first posterior (;ell long ])etiolate. Type of 

 genus E.ferruginea Fallen, Europe and North America. 



* Evyeveia, goodness of its kind, and /ivia, fly. 



