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Paroedopa punctigera, sp. nov. 



Head light yellow, the upper part of the occiput, except a triangular .-.pot in 

 the middle of its upper edge, and the upper half of the front black, gray pruinose, a 

 pair of oval, velvet black spots on the front adjoining the eyes at the junction'of the 

 yellow with the black, and a round, velvet black dot between but slightly below the 

 insertion of the antennse, a slender black line extends from near the middle of each 

 side of the face obliquely across the adjoining cheek, and an elongate brown spot at 

 the upper posterior corner of each cheek ; antennae and palpi yellowish, the proboscis 

 black; body opaque, bluish gray pruinose, mesonotum marked with five or seven yel- 

 lowish vittee, the median one prolonged across the scutellum, pleura marked with two 

 yellowish vitta, abdomen tinged with yellow in the middle of the dorsum, segments 

 two to five each marked with a transverse row of four velvet black spots ; femora 

 ])lack, gray pruinose, tibiae yellowish, each marked with a black band near the mid- 

 dle and another toward the tip, tarsi yellowish, the apices brown, wings hyaline, base 

 of costal cell to slightly beyond humeral crossvein brown, stigma brown, its base 

 white, marginal cell marked with four brown spots, two before and two beyond apex 

 of first vein, a brown spot in submarginal cell contiguous to the apex of second vein 

 and a second in extreme apex of this cell extending into the first posterior cell, also a 

 small spot beyond middle of the first posterior cell, small and hind crossveins faintly 

 clouded with brown. Length, 4 to 5 mm. 



Habitat: Catalina Springs and Gailuro Mts., Ariz. (Hubbard and 

 Schwarz); and Santa Fe, New Mexico (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



One male and two female specimens. Type No. 4471, U. S. Nat. 

 Mtiseimi. 



Stictomyia punctata, sp. nov. 



Head whitish, front densel)- covered with black dots and with two oval, velvet 

 black spots contiguous to each eye, one opposite the middle of the front, the other 

 opposite the antennie ; face marked with a velvet black spot between the antennae and 

 with a transversely oval, polished black spot each side of its center, separated l)y 

 more than its width from the antennse, sides of face, except next the front, and the 

 cheeks densely covered with black dots, a black streak on occiput near upper corner 

 of each cheek; upper part of occiput, except a transverse yellow streak near the ocelli, 

 opaque black, next the eyes gray pruinose and marked with a row of black dots ; an- 

 tennse brown, the third joint nearly four times as long as its greatest width ; palpi 

 brown, proboscis black ; thorax black, gray pruinose, thickly dotted with black, the 

 mesonotum with irregular black vittiu and with an elliptical, raised, polished black 

 spot above each humerus ; scutellum black, a median vitta and the sides gray 

 pruinose dotted with black, femora gray pruinose dotted with black, tibia; black, 

 each with two yellow bands, one before, the other beyond, the middle, tarsi black, 

 the fii^st joint except its apex yellow, base of second joint of high tarsi also yellow; 

 wings pale gray, costal cell and last half of marginal bi-own, an elongated hyaline 

 spot along first vein near middle of costal cell and two hyaline spots beyond apex of 

 first vein, a grayish brown fascia extends from apex of second vein transversely to 

 fourth vein, preceded by a spot of the same color in the submarginal and another in 

 the first posterior cell ; remainder of wing containing several pure hyaline spots, of 



