INSKCUTOR INSCITIvE; menstruus 101 



Ground color of head and abdomen pale rufous. Face sil- 

 very, same bloom apparent on frontalia. Parafrontals ashy- 

 golden. Antennae black, base rufous. Palpi light fulvous. 

 Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen obscure ashy-golden ; two 

 narrow median thoracic vittse, two heavier interrupted outer 

 ones ; scutellum pale testaceous on border. First abdominal 

 segment blackish above except on sides ; rest of tergum evenly 

 pollinose, with a dot for each hair ; venter wholly light rufous. 

 Legs blackish, but femora and tibiae with a distinct rufous 

 tinge. Wings clear. Tegulse yellowish-white, the borders more 

 yellowish. 



Holotype, No. 19567, U. S. Nat. Mus. This specimen bears 

 label "Hypostena opaca Coq." in Coquillett's hand, but so far 

 as I can find no description of it was published by him. 



Metavoria, new genus. 



Genotype, Metavoria orientalis Townsend, new species. 



Differs from Metaplagia as follows : Clypeus much shorter, 

 broadened below ; epistoma broader, well prolonged below the 

 vibrissal angles, the vibrissse set well above oral margin. Third 

 antennal joint of male about two and one-half times the rather 

 elongate second joint, that of female hardly or about twice 

 second. Arista not thickened to tip, tapered on apical third, 

 second joint not elongate. Palpi well developed. Eyes descend- 

 ing nearly to vibrissas in male, not so low in female. Male 

 front at vertex not over one-third head-width, that of female 

 wider. Hind and apical crossveins not nearly in line, the 

 former about in middle between cubitus and small crossvein, 

 cubitus a little nearer to hind than to front margin of wing, 

 hind crossvein nearly in middle between the two margins. 



Metavoria orientalis, new species. 



Length of body, 8 to 8.5 mm. ; of wing, 5 to 5.5 mm. Two 

 females, Arlington, Virginia, taken in flytrap, June 7, 1914 

 (Bureau of Entomology; R. H. Hutchison, coll.), and Kansas 

 City, Missouri, June 19 ; one male. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 

 (H. A. Morgan, labeled "Expt. 18, sub. 5"). 



Black, silvery pollinose. Head wholly silvery, including oc- 

 ciput and in one female the frontalia ; palpi and first two anten- 



