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ent. Parafacialia bare. Cheeks fully one-third eye length. One 

 preacrostichal; two postacrostichals; three sternopleurals, postin- 

 traalars, postsiiturals and lateral scutellars; minute short hair-like 

 apical scutellar pair. Third vein bristled only at base; others bare. 

 Apical cell narrowly open well before tip. Hind crossvein a little 

 nearer cubitus. Tarsi long. Median marginal pair on first two 

 segments; median discal pair on intermediate segments; marginal 

 row on last two segments; irregular discal row on anal segment. 



MEIGENIELLOIDES CINEREA, new species. 



Length, 7 mm. One female, Manzanares Creek, Pecos National 

 Forest, New Mexico, 7,500 feet, August 30, 1916 (C. H. T. Townsend). 



Slate-brownish, thickly cinereous pollinose over whole body. 

 Palpi, basal half of antennae, and legs fulvous-yellowish; tarsi 

 blackish. Four pale slate-colored thoracic vittae; a very faint 

 median abdominal vitta of same color seen from directly above. 

 Wings faintly yellowish along veins and costa. Tegulae glassy 

 tawny-whitish. 



Type.— C&t. No. 22226, U.S.N.M. 



PROROGLUTEA, new genus. 



Genotype. — Proroglutea piligera, new species. 



Clypeus moderately sunken. Epistoma short, warped. Facialia 

 bare. Proboscis short. Palpi stout, widened and flattened. Third 

 antennal joint hardly three times second. Arista long and thin, 

 bare. Eyes bare. Tliree frontals below base of antennae. Ocel- 

 lars weak or vestigial. Parafacialia bare. Three sterno-pleurals, 

 postintraalars, preacrostichals, postacrostichals, and lateral scutel- 

 lars; four postsuturals; no apical scutellars. Third vein bristled 

 only at base; others bare. Apical cell open a little before tip. Hind 

 crossvein nearer to cubitus. Male abdomen stout-oval, pointed 

 behind; ventrally the anal segment bears thick hair, meeting over 

 the hypopygial slit. Median marginal pair on first two segments; 

 median discal pair on intermediate segments; marginal row on last 

 two segments; anal with short bristles on disk. 



PROROGLUTEA PILIGERA, new species. 



Length, 9.5 mm. Two males, San Carlos, Costa Rica (Schild and 

 Burgdorf ) . 



Brown, rather thickly brassy to pale golden pollinose. Palpi 

 ulvous. Antennae blackish. Frontalia brown. Rest of head pale 

 golden pollinose, as is thorax; four vittae and base of scutellum 

 blackish. Abdomen golden pollinose on bases of last three segments, 

 shading to silvery except on extreme base. Wings fuscous costally 

 and along veins. Tegulae tawny. 



Type.— C&t. No. 22252, U.S.N.M. 



