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Graptomyza literata n. sp. Arista with a microscopic 

 pubescence; abdominal segments 2—4 each with three large brown 

 spots; wings subhy aline, slightly yellowish, unicolorous. Length 

 about 4 mm. 



Face brownish-yellow, with a black stripe between the root of the 

 antennae and the edge of the mouth; the sides (under the eyes) also 

 black. Antennae reddish, upper edge of third joint brownish. Thoracic 

 dorsum black, with a bronze-colored metallic reflection; humeral and 

 postalar callosities honey-yellow ; scutellum black. Abdomen pale honey- 

 yellow; the three blackish- brown spots on the second segment are 

 contiguous, forming an uninterrupted crossband, whose posterior side 

 is nearly contiguous with the incisure, and the anterior side projects in 

 three lobes, the intermediate one of which is truncate at tip; on the 

 third segment the three spots are subcontiguous ; the middle one square, 

 the lateral ones oval and placed obliquely; on the fourth segment the 

 spots are longitudinal, nearly parallel to each other, crossing the seg- 

 ment like three broad stripes; a narrow brown border runs along the 

 lateral margin from the second to the fourth segment, coming in contact 

 with the brown spots on each segment which are nearest to it. Wings 

 subhyaline, slightly yellowish, unicolorous; stigma yellow; veins likewise. 

 Legs: coxae and femora blackish brown, tip of the latter reddish (to 

 a greater extent on the first pair); tibiae reddish-tawny, black at the 

 end; hind tibiae, except the extreme base, altogether black; tarsi reddish- 

 tawny. — One specimen; female? 



Graptom,yza microdon n. sp. $Q. Arista plumose; ab- 

 domen very gibbous; wings yellowish, unicolorous; legs honey- 

 yellow, tips of tarsi and of front and hind tibiae black. — Length 

 about 10 — 12 mm. (diflFicult to measure on account of the great cur- 

 vature of the body). 



Face and rostriform epistoma pale honey-yellow; the latter sub- 

 conically produced, distinctly gibbous, slightly brownish on each side; 

 front more or less brown, yellowish immediately above the antennae; 

 the latter brownish-red, darker along the upper edge of the third seg- 

 ment. Thoracic dorsum yellowish -pubescent; ground color brownish) 

 shining, with some metallescent reflections; humeral and postalar call- 

 osities yellowish. Pleurae honey -yellow, with a shining black spot on 

 the mesopleura, connected with the black, shining pectus. Abdomen 

 black, shining, finely punctate and with more or less well marked 

 brownish -yellow crossbands as follows: first segment brownish -yellow, 

 witk a black mark on each side, near the hind margin; the anterior 

 half of the second segment is occupied by a curved crossband, reaching 



