INSECUTOR INSCITI.^ MENSTRUUS 155 



Huascaromusca, new genus. 



Genotype, Huascaromusca cruciata, new species. 



Strong hypopleural bristles. Head small. Clypeiis elongate 

 and narrowed. Frontals strong. Female with a cruciate pair 

 of macrochsetse on median line of frontalia just in front of 

 ocellar triangle. A strong proclinate pair of ocellars. Female 

 with two strong erect proclinate orbitals, and one strong rec- 

 linate. Mesoscutal macrochaetas long, erect, curved posteriorly. 

 Wings very long and broad. Abdomen short and wide, sub- 

 rounded behind in female. Otherwise as in Mesembrinella. 



Huascaromusca cruciata, new species. 



Length, 9 mm. One female, Huascaray Ridge, Jaen Prov- 

 ince, Peru, about 7,000 feet, September 22, 1911 (C. H. T. 

 Townsend). 



Brownish-black. Frontalia, antennse and palpi deep rufous. 

 Face and cheeks rufous, with thin silvery coating. Thorax, 

 scutellum and abdomen submetallic violet. Legs blackish. 

 Tegulae smoky. Wings faintly tinged with smoky on base 

 and costa. 



Chlorobrachycoma, new genus. 



Genotype, Chlorobrachycoma splendida, new species. 



Clypeus shallow, rather wide, dished. Epistoma slightly 

 narrowed, long, warped forward well below vibrissse. Palpi 

 long, widened apically. Arista long, short-plumose less than 

 half way. Eyes bare. Frontals stopping even with base of 

 antennae. Frontalia wide and short. Female with one pro- 

 clinate orbital, the anterior one, while in place of posterior one 

 is a bunch of bristles and hairs ; also one reclinate orbital. 

 Ocellars present. Parafacialia hairy above and with row of 

 microchsetse near orbit below. Tegulae small, bare. No median 

 marginals on first two segments, sparse marginal row on third, 

 marginals and discals on anal segment. Apical cell open before 

 tip. Has sarcophagid habitus, but belongs in the Muscini. 



