﻿100 Journal New York Ent. Soc. [Voi. hi. 



Amobia Desv. (1830). — Both Schiner (Fauna Aust. I, 502) and 

 Braiier and Bergenstamm (Zweifl. Kais. Museums Wien, VI, 226) 

 state that this genus is equivalent to Macronychia Rond. (1859), the first 

 mentioned author alleging that the same species served as the type of 

 both. Amobia, being much the older term, must be retained for this 

 genus. Brauer and Bergenstamm incorrectly spell it Ammohia, a term 

 previously employed in the Hymenoptera by Billberg (Enumeratio In- 

 sectorum, 105, 1820). 



Amobia californica, sp. nov, 



^ — Black, the palpi yellow, lower part of face tinged with reddish yellow. 

 Front at vertex as Ijroad as either eye, frontal bristles descending slightly below base 

 of antennK, the uppermost in each row curving backward, the next outward ; others 

 inward, two pairs of orbital bristles; antennae half as long as the face, the third joint 

 not longer than the second ; arista thickened to the middle, the penultimate joint 

 slightly longer than broad ; sides of face covered with short bristly hairs, each side 

 nearly half as wide as the median depression ; vibrissa inserted half the length of 

 the second antennal joint above the oral margin, two or three bristles above each ;. 

 cheeks over one-third as broad as the eye-height ; proboscis rigid, the portion be- 

 yond the basal articulation nearly as long as height of head, labella very small, 

 palpi clavate. Thorax gray pollinose, marked with four black vittae ; three postsu- 

 tural and three sternoplural macrochaetie, scutellum bearing two long marginal pairs 

 and a short apical one. Abdomen subshining, thinly gray pollinose, lirst and second 

 segments each with a marginal pair of macrochretx, third with a marginal row, the 

 fourth with a subapical row. Wings subhyaline, third vein bearing three or four 

 bristles at the base, the others bare, costal spine minute ; calypteres white. Length 

 9 to 1 1 mm. 



Los Angeles Co., Cal. Two specimens in April. 



Gjediopsis flavipes, sp. nov. 



(J — Black, the first two antennal joints, face, palpi, apex of scutellum, femora 

 and tibife, yellow. Front at vertex slightly wider than, either eye, frontal bristles 

 descending to base of third antennal joint, three in each row curving backward; two 

 pairs of orbital bristles ; sides of front and face golden pollinose ; antennse six- 

 sevenths as long as the face, third joint nearly three times as long as the second; 

 arista thickened on the basal two-thirds, the penultimate joint nearly three times 

 as long as broad ; sides of face bearing a few short bristles, and below the mid- 

 dle with two short macrochaetaa ; ridges bristly on the lower three-fifths ; cheeks one- 

 third as broad as the eye-height ; eyes rather sparsely short but distinctly pilose ; pro- 

 boscis fleshy, the portion beyond the basal articulation scarcely half as long as height 

 of head, palpi clavate. Thorax gray pollinose, marked with four black vittas ; four 

 postsutural and four sternoplural macrochastte, the scutellum bearing three long mar- 

 ginal pairs and a short apical one. Abdomen gray pollinose, second segment with 

 a marginal pair of macrochsetce, third with a marginal row, the fourth with a discal 

 and a marginal row. Hind tibite rather evenly ciliate outwardly. Wings hyaline,. 



