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golden sheen in oblique view. Palpi soft deep black. Occipital pile 

 golden, parafacial cind parafrontal hairs black. Entire thorax, scutellum, 

 and abdomen soft deep black ; the humeri and pleurae very faintly and 

 thinly pollinose, hardly noticeable; the abdomen more shining. Two 

 stemopleural bristles, two weak postsutural, no acrostichal whatever, 

 Thoreix and abdomen with very fine black pile. Legs deep rust-yellow 

 or yellowish-red, tibiae a shade lighter, tarsi deep clear yellow wnth only 

 a faint tinge of rust at most, ^^'^ings quite evenly infuscated, a little more 

 deeply tinged near base ; tegulae deep soft smoky-black. 



Trichodejeania verruga , new species. 



Length of body, 12 to 1 *^ mm. ; of wing, 11 to 12 mm. Fifteen 

 specimens, Verrugas Canyon, about 4,500 feet, on flowers of Buddleia 

 occidentalis, two males and h e females, July 9 and 1 ; and three males 

 and five females, July 23 anc^ 24, 1913. 



Whole head and pleurae s t pale golden pollinose, mesoscutum amd 

 parafrontals old-gold pollinose, four nauTow brown vittae of usual pattern 

 on thorax, frontalia deep fulvous, first antennal joint amd lunula fulvous, 

 second joint brownish with fulvous at tip, third joint and arista dark brown. 

 Palpi yellow on basal third, rest soft light brown, with longer bristles on 

 inferior proximal edge. All pile of head deep golden, except only the 

 short black hairs of parafrontals. Scutellum and legs wholly light rust- 

 yellow. Abdomen deep rust-yellow, including pile which is like bristles 

 behind ; first segment with blackish triangle in middle, invading front edge 

 of second segment on median line ; third segment with a similar but 

 slightly larger median triangle, the sides of both these being concave; 

 and segment with a much larger triangle, whose sides are convex, the 

 narrow posterior point fading in the crease between the buttocks. Whole 

 venter light rust-yellow, the anal segment blackish except narrow edges. 

 Wings rather lightly infuscate throughout, bases very faintly yellowish ; 

 both scales of tegulae light rust-yellow, the disk of hind scale faintly fus- 

 cous, due to a very microscopic short black pubescence. 



Type, TD4 1 7 1 (fly, straplike uterus, black maggots). Among the 

 cotypes is TD4 1 69. 



Eulasiopalpus Townsend. 



This genus was characterized in Psyche for June, 1913, pp. 103- 

 105. It differs from Lasiopalpus in eyes being bare, third antennal joint 



