72 Psyche lApril 



than in the middle. The face is polHnose only along the orbits 

 and not at all in the middle beneath the antennae. The front legs 

 are the darkest, their knees only are broadly yellowish. 



Minettia nigrans sp. nov. 



9 . Length 4 mm. Shining black, with pale wings. Occiput shining black; 

 front one-fourth broader than long, shining black with bluish tinge, especially on 

 the broad paraorbits, the front edge above the antennae yellow, ocellar bristles 

 moderate, rather distant; face not convex, uniformly white-pruinose; cheeks white- 

 pruinose except the narrow shining oral margin ; proboscis and palpi black. Thorax 

 highly shining black, but the disc of the mesonotum dusted with gray, scutellum 

 concolorous; three postsutural dorsocentrals, four rows of acrostichals, two sterno- 

 pleurals; mesopleurse with weak setulae; scutellar bristles long, convergent. Abdo- 

 men shining black, the marginal setae about two-thirds the length of the segments. 

 Front legs entirely black, middle femora black except the knees, their tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish, hind femora black, the tibiae and tarsi blackish, hind tibiae without 

 preapical bristle. Halteres white. Wings large, clear hyaline, veins pale, the last 

 two sections of fourth vein proportioned two to five. 



One specimen from Monroe, Washington; May 20, 1908. 



Minettia cana sp. nov. 



Like hipulina but the scutellum not bordered with black, palpi 

 yellow, face uniformly gray-pruinose, and front lacking the con- 

 spicuous yellow fascia: like glauca but the abdominal segments 

 not spotted and the front differently marked. 



9 . Length 4 mm. Head and thorax black, thickly covered with blue-gray pollen. 

 Middle of front with a broad brown fascia and orbits with a triangular browTi spot 

 at the level of the antennae. Above the base of the antennae the front shows but 

 little trace of yellow ground-color, but is blue-gray pruinose like the face, vertex 

 and occiput. Ocellar bristles distant, behind them are six cruciate setulae. Antennae 

 reddish brown, the third joint ovate, with short-plumose brown arista. Palpi 

 reddish yellow; proboscis black. Three dorsocentrals, four rows of acrostichals, 

 the acrostichals and the other setulae strong, metapleurae setulose, two sterno- 

 pleurals : mesonotum not vittate, scutellum uniformly cinereous above. Abdomen 

 entirely yellomsh, the segments not margined with long setae. Legs blackish, the 

 front legs black, front femora cinereous, knees narrowly yellowish, posterior tibiae 

 with base and a broad medial ring somewhat paler, hind tibiae ^\ithout preapical 

 bristle. Halteres yellow. Wings uniformly with yellow tinge, as in hipulina; the 

 last two sections of the fourth vein equal. 



One specimen received with a lot of liqndina from Dr. Garry 

 deN. Hough, who took it at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 

 Memorial Day, about twelve years ago. 



