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about on leaves. A very beautiful species and not unlike in general 

 coloration the European C. avuvna and Icpiiformis except that in 

 those species the males differ exceedingly from the females. 



Callomyia aldrichii n. sp. 



Female. Head black; front and face metallic blackish green, some- 

 what glaucescent; occiput opaque black and this color extends upon 

 the vertex, enveloping the large elliptical ocelli; antennae brown, 

 third joint fuscous, ending acutely, two-thirds length of arista. Tho- 

 rax and scutellum shining, metallic, with bluish-white reflction in some 

 lights and green in others- Abdomen subcupreous, in some lights a 

 little glaucous or whitish-green, shining almost everywhere; bands of 

 abdomen copper-colored, that of first segment being widely interrupt- 

 ed by a large opaque black spot extending the length of segment; on 

 the second segment the cupreous is narrowly interrupted at the 

 basal incisure and leaves upon the middle of segment a large shining 

 blackish triangle; bands of following segments uninterrupted, leaving 

 upon their posterior borders blackish areas, triangular in shape and 

 in the specimen described, subopaque on segments 4-6. Legs pale 

 yellow, hind femora near tip and last two or three joints of tarsi 

 infuscated. Halteres black. Wings hyaline. 



Length 3 mm. 



A single specimen collected by Prof. J. M. Aldrich on the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas campus. 



This species is near C. teiicra. Lw. 



I desire to thank Dr. Williston for his kind assistance in the prepa 

 ration of this paper. 



