52 THOMAS SxVY FOUNDATIOX 



a row of appressed black hairs at base and another in 

 middle (sixth sternite coalesced with it?). 



Length 6l/^-8l/o mm. 



Thirteen males and three females; se\'en males 

 are from LaFayette, Ind., collected by the author; 

 two males and two females Opelousas, La., in the 

 Hough collection; one male Tifton, Ga., also in the 

 Hough collection; one male each from Georgesville 

 and Kent, Ohio, in Professor Hine's collection; one 

 male Florida (C. W. Johnson) ; the third female is 

 in the Hough collection, collected in Wisconsin by 

 Professor Wm. M. Wheeler. 



Holotype.— Male, Xo. 20,491, U. S. X. M., 

 from LaFayette, Ind. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20491, U. S. X. M., 

 from Opelousas, La. 



NOTOCHiETA New Genus. 



{vcJoTos, back; x^itr??, hristle) 



Eyes bare; front not \ery prominent, narrow in 

 male; upper frontals strong, several of the upper 

 pair reclinate in a decreasing degree, the rows mod- 

 erately divergent below and reaching almost to the 

 middle of the second antennal joint; third antennal 

 joint long, arista long and with vei*y long plumosity 

 almost to its tip; vibrissa at oral margin, not approx- 

 imated; hairs of parafacials minute or wanting; palpi 

 normal; proboscis short, fleshy; back of head nearly 

 flat. 



Thorax with uncommonly long bristles, as fol- 

 lows: Ps dc 2 (the anterior not much more than half 

 way to the suture, usually a coarse hair close in front 

 of it) ; ant dc 2 large; ant acr 0; prsc 1 small; hum 2; 

 npl 2; inthum 1; prsut 1 large; pa 2; inta 2 or 1 (the 

 anterior small or absent) ; supa 3 (the middle one 

 large) ; stpl 3; scutellum with 3 or 4 marginals (only 

 the first and last large ) , one small apical, and some- 

 times a minute subapical. 



