REVISION" OP GENUS CUPHOCERA REINHARD 55 



profile, its ridges flat and practically bare; vibrissae about on level 

 with oral margin well above the lower edge of head; parafacial 

 nearl}^ half as wide as face, bearing two large bristles on lower part 

 and with coarse black hairs above extending to the lowermost fron- 

 tals; antennae red at base; arista moderately thickened and taper- 

 ing toward tip, penultimate segment long; cheek gray pollinose, 

 clothed with black hairs, about three-fourths the eye height ; probos- 

 cis slender and somewhat exceeding the height of head ; palpi absent ; 

 beard dense, pale gray or white. Thoracic chaetotaxy as in hirsuta. 



Abdomen wholly black, with rather thin changeable gray pollen 

 on last three segments ; second segment with a pair of median marg- 

 inal bristles; third bearing a marginal row; fourth with numerous 

 bristles on apical half; no discals on intermediate segments; geni- 

 talia with the usual large lateral lobe; inner forceps moderately 

 long, united, with a narrow slightly raised median line behind, taper- 

 ing from the base to an acute tip; outer forceps slender beyond a 

 rather prominent shoulder near the base behind ; fifth sternite cleft, 

 the lobes clothed with black hairs. 



Legs black, the tibiae obscurely yellow ; middle tibia with four or 

 five strong bristles on the outer front side ; hind tibia bearing a row 

 of uneven bristles on the outer posterior edge; claws and pul villi 

 moderately elongate. 



Wings gray-hyaline; venation normal, third vein setulose about 

 half the distance to small cross vein ; costal spine small. 



Length, 12 mm. 



Female. — Unlvnown. 



r^/^e.— Male, U.S.N.M. no. 50560. 



Remarks. — Described from one specimen in the United States 

 National Museum from East Verde River, Ariz., 4,500 feet, without 

 collector's label. 



(6) CUPHOCERA GEMINATA, new species 



Male. — Front at vertex 0.44 of the head width (one specimen), 

 widening gradually to antennae; parafrontals yellow with gray 

 pollen extending to vertex; median stripe reddish yellow, narrower 

 than one paraf rontal on entire length ; ocellar bristles present, rather 

 weak; verticals two pairs, large; frontal bristles seven or eight in 

 the row, the upper two largest, reclinate and divaricate, the lower one 

 about on level with middle of second antennal segment ; a secondary 

 row of three frontal bristles outside the lower part of main row; 

 face and cheeks yellow in ground color, grayish-white pollinose; 

 antennae red, third segment largely dark, strongly convex in front 

 and a little longer than the second ; arista short, thickened and evenly 

 tapering to tip, the penultimate segment about one-fourth the length 

 of third ; parafacial black haired and with two strong bristles close 



