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Nebritus pellucidus Coquill. 



c^9- ,, Black, the proboscis, palpi, first antennal Joint 

 except the iipperside, femora, tibiae, base of tarsi, halteres 

 except the extreme apex, and the tip of a,bdomen, yellowish; 

 in the $ the middle of the sixth to eights abdominal Seg- 

 ments at the base are black. Front on the upper % sparse 

 black pilose and opaque yellow pollinose, excepting a median 

 line and an ocellar spot; lower fourth of the front highly 

 polished, sometimes yellowish below, bearing a Cluster of 

 black pile at the base of each antennae; first antennal Joint 

 highly pohshed, sparsely beset with black pile and bristles, 

 the third Joint bearing short bristles at the base; base yellow, 

 Pollinose except the upper edge, extending as a large 

 spot on each side polished black, a similar spot on each side 

 of the oral margin near its posterior edge; occiput yellow 

 Pollinose except in the center, where it is grey, a large 

 pollished black spot back of upper corner of each eye. 

 Thorax opaque, somewhat bluish pollinose excepting four 

 nearly equidistant yellow pollinose vittae which are beset 

 with short yellow and black pile, elsewhere the spars? pile 

 is black. Scutellum marked with two yellow vittae beset 

 with yellow pile; four marginal bristles. xA.bdomen opaque, 

 lightly yellowish gray pollinose, the short pile on the basal 

 half yellowish, that on the apical half largely black. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma yellowish. — Length: 7 — 10 mm. 



S. California, IV. und VI. 



Metaphragma Coquill. 

 Metaphragina Coquill., Journ. New York Entom. Soc, 

 IL 97. (1894). 

 ,,Head nearly twice as broad as long, eyes of man 

 separated as widely as tlie two posterior ocelli; first an- 

 tennal Joint unusually robust, nearly as long as the head, 

 nearly threetimcs af. long as the third Joint, the hittiM" only 



ötett. eutomol. Zeit. 11)12. 



