No. 2301. NEW SPECIES OF MUSCOID FLIES— TOWNSEND. 591 



median marginals on first abdominal segment; a medium marginal 

 pair on second; marginal row on third and anal; a median discal pair 

 on second and third; a discal row on anal. 



NEOERIGONE CINEREA, new species. 



Length, 9 mm. One male and two females, Chapada, Brazil 

 (H.H.Smith). 



Blackish, cinereous poUinose. Head silvery, parafrontalia tinged 

 with golden; frontalia brownish. Antennae largely rufous. Palpi 

 fulvous. Four dark thoracic vittae. Changeable blackish spots on 

 abdomen from hind margin of second segment posteriorly; viewed 

 from above there are four such spots on hind margin of second and 

 third segments, and two on front margin of third and anal segments. 

 Wings nearly clear. Tegulae white. 

 Paratype.—C&t. No. 22091, U.S.N.M. 



Type in American Museum of National History. 



Tribe LINNAEMYINI. 

 COPECK YPT A ANDINA, new species. 



Length, 6 to 7.5 mm. Many specimens of both sexes. Verrugas 

 Canyon, Peru, 5,500 feet, June 25 to July 23, 1913, on "flowers of 

 TeUnthera (C. H. T. Townsend). 



Differs from rujicauda Wulp by the sides of abdomen being rufous 

 to fulvous, quite distinctly so in female and very broadly and con- 

 spicuously so in male. Legs fulvous; only the tarsi black. 



r^/pe.— Cat. No. 22276, U.S.N.M. 



Tribe CHmiCAHUimi. 

 BEZZIMYIA, new genus. 



Genotype. — Bezzimyia husclcii, new species. 



General characters of OMricahida, differing principally as follows 

 Ptilinal suture ending in the cheek grooves, not reaching lateral oral 

 margin. Parafacialia narrow, narrowed below, with only a row of 

 fine closely placed bristlets on upper part. Facialia bristly about 

 halfway up. Male third antennal joint swollen, nearly six times the 

 very short second. Male vertex about one-fifth head width. An- 

 tennae inserted slightly below eye middle, the front rather long. 

 Arista inserted at extreme base of third antennal joint. Frontals 

 stopping at base of antennae. Frontalia very narrow. Vertical 

 bristles very short, but the outer is proclinate. Ocellars present, but 

 very small and short, as are the frontals. Cheeks about half eye 

 length. Third vein not bristled. Apical crossvein absent. Hind 

 crossvein extremely close to small crossvein, only a little out of line 

 with it. The abdomen is without true macrochaetae. Tibiae and 



