A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF TWO-WINGED FLIES 

 OF THE FAMILY CHLOROPIDAE INJURING MANIHOT 

 IN BRAZIL. 



By J. M. Aldrich, 

 Associate Cnrator, Division of Insects, United States National Museum. 



The species herein described was received by the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology for identification, from Prof. Carlos Moreira of the Institudo 

 Biologico de Defesa Agricola, Rio Janeiro, who states that it is a 

 bad miner of Cassava, Manihot utUissiina in Brazil. 



TELEOCOMA, new genus. 



Head broad and flat; antennae short, third joint almost circular 

 in outline ,with slender bare arista; face transversely concave, epis- 

 toma not prominent; palpi normal; proboscis short, the temiinal 

 joint folding back but short ; front wide ; eye shorter vertically than 

 longitudinally. Thorax not grooved dorsally, decidedly longer than 

 wide, the scutellum flat above, subtriangular but rounded apically, 

 with only microscopic denticles from which the bristles arise. Wing 

 with normal venation, the costa extending to fourth vein. Hind 

 tibia without any distinct spine at tip. Bristles rather strongly 

 developed, especially two notopleurals, two humerals, one supra- 

 alar, one intraalar, one posterior dorsocentral (the last three close 

 to the scutellum), one apical pair on scutellum. There are also two 

 vertical paii-s, one postvertical, and a small pair of vibrissae. 



Genotype. — Teleocoma crassipes, new species. 



TELEOCOMA CRASSIPES, new species. 



Male. — Front black above, yellow beyond middle, at vertex much 

 wider than one eye; ocellar triangle small, not reaching half way to 

 antennae; frontal bristles minute; antennae wholly reddish yellow; 

 face and bucca (below eye) white, the latter darker along lower 

 and posterior edge, and about one-tliird the eye-height; palpi yellow. 



Thorax black, the sides polished, the dorsum with a tinge of 

 bronze, covered with even, short, pale yellow hairs arising from evi- 



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