No. 2301. NEW SPECIES OF MUSCOID FLIES— T0WN8END. 583 



bristled only at base; others bare. Apical cell open considerably 

 before tip. Hind crossvein nearer to cubitus. Male claws short. 

 Hind tibiae pectinate, with longer bristle. Well-separated median 

 marginal pair on first two segments; marginal row on third; marginal 

 and two discal rows of weaker bristles on anal segment. 



EOCARCELU CEYLANICA, new species. 



Length, 8.5 mm. One male, Peradeniya, Ceylon, May 29, 1914 

 (A. Rutherford). 



Antennae blackish, articulation tinged with rufous. Palpi pale 

 fulvous. Frontalia dark brown. Sides of front and face thinly 

 silvery. Thorax and scutellum pale brassy poUinose; four thoracic 

 vittae, the inner very narrow. Abdomen thickly brassy-silvery pol- 

 hnose, leaving first segment and hind borders of last three blacldsh, 

 also an indistinct median vitta. Legs blackish. Wings clear. 

 Tegulae whitish. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22260, U.S.N.M. 



Tribe STTJEMirNI. 

 NEOWINTHEMIA, new genus. 



Genotype.— Neowinthemia abdomindlis, new species. 



Alhed to Winthemia. Facialia bare. Epistoma moderately short, 

 scarcely warped, well narrowed from clypeus. Palpi heavy, bowed. 

 Third antennal joint little over one and one-half times second. Eyes 

 thickly pilose. Ocellars present. Parafacialia setose in three rows, 

 narrowed considerably below. Cheeks about one-sixth eye length 

 in male. Two sternopleurals ; three postintraalars, preacrostichals, 

 postacrostichals, and lateral scutellars; four postsuturals ; short de- 

 cussate apical scutellar pair. Male hind tibiae thickly cUiate, with- 

 out longer bristle. Male claws long. No median marginals on first 

 two segments, marginal row on last two, anal segment thickly 

 bristly. 



NEOWINTHEMU ABDOMINALIS, new species. 



Length, 9.75 mm. One male, Dixie Landing, Virginia, July 21, 

 1914, on foliage (C. H. T. Townsend). 



Palpi deep rufous. Antennae blackish. Frontalia brown. Head 

 silvery poUinose, with golden tinge especially on sides of front. 

 Humeri and pleura thinly poUinose, mesoscutum shining brownish 

 with faint poUen and scarcely visible vittae, scuteUum testaceous. 

 Abdomen blackish on first segment; the rest of tergum heavily 

 silvery-cream poUinose, except a narrow black median vitta, which 

 expands on second segment; sides of abdomen broadly rufous as seen 

 from below. Legs blackish. Wings clear. Tegulae tawny. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22254, U.S.N.M. 



