NEW MUSCOID FLIES FROM THE ANDEAN MONTANYA |7I 



hairs, more them front half of segment without spines ; the segment nar- 

 rowed behind and very faintly emarginate. Ventral plates of the four 

 segments carry each a row of six spines, except that anal has only five, 

 and basal has seven with an extra pair in front of them. 



Reproductive habit, aJmost certainly leaf-larviposition of colored 

 maggots. 



Type, Dejeaniops ollachea T. 



This genus was briefly characterized in Psyche for June, 1913, pp. 

 103-105. The above is a fuller description of the genus, and the fol- 

 lowing is a more detailed description of the species. 



Dejeaniops ollachea Townsend. 



Length of body, 1 1 mm. ; of wing, 1 0.5 mm. ; of proboscis, 6 mm. ; 

 of palpi, 4.5 mm. One female, Ollachea, about 9,500 feet, February 

 2, 1910, on flowers of euphorbiaceous shrub. 



Head pale yellowish, faintly golden pollinose ; palpi deep rust-yellowish ; 

 antennae pale yellowish-brown or very pale brick-reddish, arista black. 

 Parafrontds and thoracic scutum concolorous, brownish-olive and polli- 

 nose ; thoreuc with four narrow vittae, scutellum pale yellowish-brown. 

 Abdomen soft black, with clear light yellow on sides of anterior two- 

 thirds, the two colors disposed as follows by segments : First black in 

 middle, the black widened in front and evenly narrowed to hind margin, 

 rest of segment yellow ; second with only broad median vitta black, all 

 rest yellow ; third with median vitta widening behind and posterior cor- 

 ners black, latter continuing broadly on whole hind margin of venter of 

 segment including the ventral plate ; anal wholly black above and below. 

 Legs concolorous with palpi, of a deep rust-yellow except that femora 

 are blackish or brown on all but apices. Wings evenly smoky, but not 

 deeply so ; both scales of tegulae smoky and microscopically thickly 

 black-pubescent. 



Eudejeania huascarayana, new species. 



Length of body, 1 7 mm. ; same to end of abdominal spines, 1 9 mm. ; 

 of wing, 1 7 mm. One male, eastern base of Huascaray Ridge, about 

 7,000 feet, September 22, 191 1, on foliage. 



Whole head pale dusky-golden or pale old-gold pollinose, epistoma 

 smoky-blackish, parafrontals dusky with smoky-golden pollen, frontalia 

 and lunula velvet-black, antennae black. Lunula and ocellar area faintly 

 golden pollinose, also first two antennaJ joints; even frontalia with a 



