150 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ M^NSTRUUS 



Chlorobrachycoma splendida, new species. 



Length, 8.5 mm. One female, Oroya, Peru, May 8, 1914 

 (C. H. T. Townsend). 



Bright green. Cheeks, parafacialia and parafrontalia silvery, 

 mottled with blackish-green reflections. Antennae, clypeus and 

 palpi deep black. Thorax, scutellum and abdomen bright green 

 with some violet reflections, and with more or less silvery 

 pollen showing in some lights. Legs blackish. Tegulse whit- 

 ish. Wings nearly clear, only faintly smoky. 



Sarconesiopsis, new genus. 



Genotype, Sarconesiopsis caerulea, new species. 



Clypeus shallow, not narrowed above, about twice as long 

 as wide. Epistoma elongate, full width of clypeus. Facialia 

 short-ciliate over half way above vibrissse. Eyes bare. Arista 

 plumose a little over half way. Parafacialia hairy except on 

 lower fourth. Mesoscutum conspicuously trivittate. Apical 

 cell open before tip. Wrinkle at cubitus. Squamae bare. No 

 median marginals on first two abdominal segments, marginal 

 row on third, marginal and discal bristles on anal segment. 

 Three postsuturals and two sternopleurals. Belongs in the 

 Muscini. 



Sarconesiopsis caerulea, new species. 



Length, 8.5 to 9.5 mm. Two females, Oroya, Peru, May 7, 

 1914 (C. H. T. Townsend) ; five females and one male, Quito, 

 Ecuador (F. Campos). 



Head blackish, pale golden pollinose with blackish reflec- 

 tions. Palpi rufous, tinged with brown. Frontalia brown. 

 Mesoscutum blackish, thinly silvery, with three heavy black 

 vittae. Scutellum metallic green. Abdomen metallic green, 

 with bluish reflections. Legs blackish. Tegulae fuscous. 

 Wings faintly smoky. 



(To be continued.) 

 Date of publication. October 30, 1918. 



