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to the apical fifth and irregularly oval spots between the fifth vein and the 

 posterior margin, one on each side of the branch, these being yellowish. 

 Halteres yellowish. Legs mostly a brilliant orange yellow, the femora and 

 tibiae black-banded apically ; claws long, stout, curved at the distal fourth, 

 simple, the pulvilli rudimentary. Genitalia : basal clasp segment moderately 

 long, stout ; terminal clasp segment long, stout, smooth, except for a swollen 

 setose area at the external angles on the basal fourth ; dorsal and ventral 

 plates apparently missing. Harpes fused to form a chitinized, spinose tube 

 surrounding the style. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Antennae extending to the third abdominal seg- 

 ment, sparsely haired, pale yellowish or yellowish orange, distally red; 14 

 segments, the fifth with a stem % the length of the cylindric basal enlarge- 

 ment, which latter has a length three times its diameter, bears low circumfili 

 near the basal fourth and apically, and a scattering, broad whorl of moderately 

 long setaa near the distal third; terminal segment slightly reduced, with a 

 length three times its diameter and apically a stout, tapering process about 

 half the length of the basal enlargement. Ovipositor short, tapering, the 

 terminal lobes narrowly lanceolate, with a length three times the width and 

 sparsely setose. Other characters practically as in the male. Type Cecid 02386. 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE DIPTEROUS GROUPS AGRO- 



MYZIN^, MILICHIINiE, OCHTHIPHILIN^ 



AND GEOMYZIN^.i 



By a. L. Melander, 



Pullman, Washington. 



There need be no apology offered for the issuance of the following 

 paper. Our species have been neglected; many of the commonest 

 forms remain unidentified; there is no adequate tabulation of the spe- 

 cies or even of the genera, and the determination, therefore, of a 

 species necessitates laborious searching among scattered descriptions; 

 furthermore, a surprising number of European species occur also in 

 America. Although based almost entirely on my own collection, and 

 therefore necessarily far from a complete treatment, this contribution 

 brings to light so many species new to America as to justify its ap- 



1 Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory of the State College of 

 Washington. 



