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NEOPHYLLOMYZA new genus. 



Postverticals converging; paired cruciate bristles present along the 

 middle of the front; fronto-orbital bristles extending quite to the 

 antennae, the upper ones diverging, the lower converging. Face exca- 

 vated, cheeks narrow, the vibrissal angle prominent, oral vibrissse 

 large; eyes vertically lengthened. Antennae large, of the male greatly 

 enlarged, the arista slender, short-pubescent, the hairs dense or loose. 

 Proboscis long, slender, geniculate; palpi enlarged, compressed, por- 

 rect, bristly along the edge at the end. 



One large dorsocentral, one humeral, two notopleural, one pre- 

 sutural, two supra-alar, acrostichal and other setulse numerous and 

 uniformly distributed; apical scutellar bristles long and converging; 

 one sternopleural, no mesopleural bristles. Legs rather strong, setu- 

 lose; pulvilli minute; no preapical tibial bristles. Costa attains the 

 fourth vein, twice broken, towards the base ciliate with fine, small 

 bristles and with a stronger humeral bristle before the first break; 

 second, third and fourth veins parallel; crossveins approximate; fifth 

 vein evanescent ; second basal and anal cells rudimentary or incomplete. 



Type: Ncophyllomyza quadricornis, new species following. 



Table of Species of Neophyllomyza. 



Submarginal cell narrowed at its extremity, its costal margin about one half that 

 of the first posterior cell ; penultimate section of the fourth vein less 

 than one third as long as the ultimate section ; knees, more or less 

 of the tibiae and all of the tarsi yellow; frontal orbits subshining ; 

 mesonotum shining; proboscis shorter than the head. i.S mm. (West 

 Ind.) magnipalpus Williston. 



Submarginal cell as broad as the first posterior cell at the extremity ; at least 

 the tibiae black ; proboscis longer than the head 2. 



2. Mesonotum polished black ; orbits narrowly shining ; penultimate section of 

 the fourth vein one third as long as the ultimate section ; anal cell 

 rudimentary; tarsi yellow; halteres shining black. 2.25 mm. (Id.*) 



nitens n. sp. 



Mesonotum sericeous black ; front entirely sericeous ; penultimate section 



of the fourth vein less than one fourth as long as the ultimate section ; 



anal cell wanting; tarsi black or blackish; halteres blackish. 1.5 mm. 



(Id.,* Wash.,* N. Mex.,* La.*) quadricornis n. sp. 



Neophyllomyza quadricornis new species. 



Male. — Length 1.5 mm. Black, subshining. Front sericeous, the orbits, 

 ocellar triangle and the stripes for the cruciate bristles not differentiated; two 



