SYNOPSIS OF NORTH A:M1:KICAN SYRPIIID.E. 211 



dorneii very short, bioad, with abuiulant pile, sliiuiug black, the secoud 

 segfineut opaque; an opaque, laterally abbreviated cross-baud on the 

 third segnieut; pile ou the sides of the first and second segments and 

 on the fourth and fifth, longer, yellow, elsewhere black. Legs wholly 

 black, with long yellowish pile. Wings with a distinct blackish shade 

 on outer ])art. 



Five specimens (Morrison, Baron). 



Criorhina lupina. (Plate IX, figs. 6, 6a, Ob.) 



Braclujmiihi htpina Williston, Can. Ent., xiv, 77, 1882. 

 Eurli'niamaUoia hipina Williston, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, xx, 330, 1882. 

 f Eurhinomallota mctaUica Bigot, Bullet, bi-mens. Soc. Ent. Fran, (diagnosis 

 only), ISti'-Z. 



Eabitat — California ! 



S ,9 . Length, 9 to 12"". Black, shining. Antennse brownish-black, 

 third joint at the base sometimes, secoud joint at the tip, and first joint 

 at the base, reddish ; first joint twice the length of the secoud, third 

 broader than long. Face thickly clothed with yellowish white [jollen 

 and pile, a broad median stripe and the cheeks shining. Front in fe- 

 male broarl, dusted on the sides, pile long and yellowish on the sides; 

 much produced downwards and forwards, conical; in the male the 

 frontal process very prominent and the eyes well separated by the swol- 

 len ocellar callosity. Posterior orbits thickly light gray pollinose and 

 pilose. Thorax shining metallic black; clothed with moderately abun- 

 dant and very long light-reddish yellow pile, on the pleura^ whitish. 

 Abdomen shining black, with long, rather sparse, light-colored pile. 

 Legs with long light-colored pile; black, the extreme tip of femora, 

 basal third of tibise and basal joints of tarsi, yellowish or luteous, the 

 tibiee otherwise more of a brown color. Wings sub-hyaline, with a 

 blackish shade on the outer part, the cross-veins in some specimens 

 lightly clouded. 



Four specimens. The proboscis in the female is as long as the thorax, 

 somewhat shorter in the male. 



Criorhina verbosa. (Plate X, fig. 2.) 



Mimca lomeiifom Swederus, Vetensk., Ak. Nya. Handl., 1787. 

 MUefiia rcrhosa (Harris) Walker, List, etc., iii, 568. 

 Braclnjpalinifi rerbosus Osten Sacken, Catalogue Dipt., 136, 1878. 



Eabitat— FrAstern States, Canada ! 



9 . Length, 1(5"'"'. Large, black, shining, thickly i)ilose. Face thickly 

 clothed on the side with yellowish-gray pollen, a median stripe from the 

 base of the antennal process, and the cheeks, shining black. Front 

 rather narrow, shining black, somewhat dusted on the sides, pile long, 

 yellowish. Anteunte: first joint only a little elongate, nearly black; 

 second joint red or brownish-red; third joint much broader than long, 

 transversely oval, brownish -black, towards the base more or less red- 

 dish. Thorax a little shining above; densely i)ilose, in front and be- 



