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94. Face with a U-shaped brown mark flanked by an oblique stripe; pleurae not 

 vittate; femora striped with gray in front, tibiae ^vith a basal ring. D.C. 



Minettia magna Coquillett. 



Face yellow; pleurse vittate above; legs yellow. Kans. 



Minettia crevecoeuri Coquillett. 



Caliope nigerrima sp. nov. 



cf. Length 3 mm. Entirely black, the hal teres, calypteres and wings alone 

 yellowish. Front shining, with slight coppery hue, slightly broader than long, the 

 ocellar bristles approximate : face in profile convex only near the antennae, broadly 

 angulate at the middle; center and sides of the face white-pruinose; lower occiput 

 white-pruinose. Third antennal joint elongate-oval, twice as long as wide, the 

 black arista microscopically pubescent. Palpi linear, black-hairy. Mesonotum 

 shining greenish black, thinly coated with olivaceous pollen; four dorsocentrals, 

 acrostichals very sparse, apical scutellars divergent, two sternopleurals. Abdomen 

 shining, slightly metallic. Wings hyaline, with yellowish tinge, veins yellow, last 

 two sections of the fourth vein nearly one to two. 



A single specimen taken by Professor Aldrich at Pacific Grove, 

 California, May 6, 1906. 



The profile of the face indicates that this species is related to 

 quadrisetosa and elisoe, but the uniformly black color and the sub- 

 bare arista are different. 



Caliope elisae Meigen. 



Meigen's original description calls for a species with white 

 arista and red antennae. Zetterstedt states that the arista is white 

 and the tip of the antenna is brown. Schiner savs that the infusca- 

 tion of the antenna is variable and that the arista is light brown; 

 while Rondani and Becker give the arista as brown. 



This species was included in the North American fauna on 

 Walker's authority. I have a series of specimens from Mount 

 Constitution, on Orcas Island, Washington, that agree with the 

 descriptions of elisoe, and may or may not be the same as the 

 European species. In the absence of typical specimens of elisoe it 

 would be premature either to describe them as new or to vouch 

 their identity. They have the face but little bulbous beneath the 

 antennae and below the swelling it is excised in profile. This 

 character is quite different from the evenly convex face of cylindri- 

 cornis, with which species elisoe is repeatedly compared. The 

 third antennal joint is dusky, four times as long as deep, its upper 

 and lower edges parallel, so that before the tip it is not smaller 



