Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. II JUNE. 1914 No. 6 



NEW MUSCOID FLIES, MAINLY HYSTRICIID>E AND 

 PYRRHOSIIN.^ FROM THE ANDEAN MONTANYA 



By CHARLES H. T. TOWNSEND 

 Director of Entomological Stations, Lima, Peru 



(Continued from (jage 46) 



Differs from Fabriciopsis practically only in eyes being thickly hairy, 

 first aristal joint elongate, and differences in frontal and cheek widths. 

 Cheeks of female nearly two-thirds eye-height, those of male fully one- 

 half eye-height. Male front at vertex equal to eye-width, that of female 

 only slightly wider. Two strong marginal pairs of scutelleur bristles ; the 

 third pair, situated between the two strong ones on each side, very weak. 

 Claws of male very long, those of female much shorter. 



Reproductive habit, larviposition of colored maggots, but probably not 

 on foliage. 



Type, Neqjurinia ahscondens, new species. 



Neojurinia abscondens, new species. 



Length of body, 12 to 14 mm. ; of wing, 1 to 12 nun. Two. 

 females and two males, Santa Eulalia, Peru, about 4,000 feet, July 5, 

 1913, on flowers of Buddleia ocddentalis. 



Face and cheeks wholly silvery with a golden shade ; parafrontals 

 blackish beneath the pollen. All head pile grayish, even frontal except 

 orbital area of short black hairs. Frontalia and antennae brown, palpi 

 light yellow. Thorax blackish, thinly grajash dusted, with live narrow 

 vittae. Pleurae brassy pollinose. Scutellum concolorous with abdomen 

 as a rule, but sometimes of a deeper shade, nearly approaching color of 

 rfiorax. Abdomen deep brownish-red throughout, both above and 

 below. Legs blackish, the tibiae reddish approaching shade of abdomen, 

 underside of femora brassy like pleurae. Wings faintly infuscate through- 



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