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throughout. Faciaha with bristles on not more than lower third. 

 Facial plate not triangular, nearly even in width. Vibrissae near 

 oral margm; arista thickened on more than basal haK; third antennal 

 joint about two and a half times second, bulged on upper edge. Four 

 sternopleurals and four postsuturals ; apical erect scutellar pair 

 decussate. No discals on any of abdommal segments; the last two 

 segments rather tliickly clothed with appressed pile-Uke hairs. 

 Apical cell quite widely open, ending farther before tip; apical and 

 hind cross veins parallel with each other, but not with hind margui 

 of wing. Tegulae of normal size. 



ZIZYPHOMYIA CELER, new species. 



Length of body, 6.5 to 7.5 mm.; of wing, 4.75 to 5 mm. Two 

 males, Kenedy, Texas, September 14; and Cuero, Texas, June 9, 

 1898, on flowers of ZizypTius oUusifolius (Townsend). 



Blackish; head thickly dull silvery poUinose. Frontaha brown, 

 showing bloom in obUque lights. First two antennal joints faintly 

 rufous in one specimen. Palpi pale rufous. Thorax and scutellum 

 silvery poUinose; four narrow vittae, the outer ones mteiTupted and 

 but httle heavier than inner ones. Abdomen shining brown to dark 

 brown and black; base of second segment broadly silvery, the poUen 

 fading out about halfway to hind margin on median portion, nar- 

 rowing laterally; third segment with silvery only on median portion 

 of incisure. No pollen on venter. Tibiae brownish. Wings clear. 

 Tegulae white. 



Holotype.— No. 20046, U.S.N.M. (Cuero.) 



NEOPHRYXE, new genus. 



Genotype. — Neophryxe psycMdis, new species. 



Differs from Phryxe as follows: Female. Vertex less than one- 

 third head-width. Eyes bare. Antennae inserted on upper two- 

 thirds of eye; third joint not widened, nearly three times second. 

 Arista more dehcate, basal joints short. Face below hardly one and 

 one-third times as wide as one eye. Faoialia and clypeus narrower, 

 epistoma more bulged. Apical scutellars weaker. No true discals 

 on intermediate abdominal segments. Hind tibiae subpectinate, 

 tarsi short. Apical cell narrowly open, cubitus with strong wi'inkle. 



NEOPHRYXE PSYCHIDIS, new species. 



Length of body, 5.5 mm. ; of wing, 4.5 mm. One female, "emerged 

 from Psychid cases coll. on Azaleas from Japan at Riverton, Nev/ 

 Jersey, March 25, 1915" (H. B. Weiss). 



Black, including antennae and frontalia. Palpi fulvous. Para- 

 frontals, face, cheeks, and orbits silvery; occiput ashy. Thorax 

 and scutellum thinly silvery; five vittae, three narrow ones in mid- 

 dle, two wider ones outside. Last tlireo abdominal segments very 

 broadly silvery on base; especially the intermediate ones, a median 



