264 Journal New York. Entomological Society. [Voi. vii. 



Aciura lutea, sp. nov. 



Yellow, body polished, scutellum bearing only two bristles, ovipositor very 

 convex, almost as long as the last three abdominal segments ; wings brown and hya- 

 line, two subquadrate hyaline spots in costal cell between humeral crossvein and apex 

 of auxiliary vein, a subtriangular one just beyond end of first vein not extending 

 below the second vein, and one a short distance beyond it which almost reaches the 

 third vein, a rounded one just beyond the second third of first basal cell and a similar 

 one in discal cell along the fourth vein just beyond the small crossvein, the middle 

 of the second and third posterior cells, occupying about half the area of these cells, a 

 small spot just before the apex of the fifth vein, a rounded one in front edge of the 

 axillary cell, hyaline ; broad hind margin of this cell grayish hyaline ; third vein 

 bristly at its base, small crossvein near the third fourth of the discal cell ; length, 

 5 mm. 



Habitat: Pareah, Utah. 



A single female, received from A. L. Siler. Type No. 4405, U. 

 S. Nat. Museum. 



Carphotriche ciilta differs in too many respects from the type species 

 to be retained in the same genus, and I have, therefore, made it the 

 type of a new genus, as follows : 



Paracantha, gen. nov. 



Upper half of front bearing a row of three whitish setae nearly midway between 

 the regular frontal row and the median line of the front, face in profile strongly con- 

 cave, the oral margin considerably produced forward, scutellum not swollen, bearing 

 four macrochactoe and three pairs of nearly erect yellow setse a short distance inside 

 of the margins ; fourth vein not curved forward at its apex, small crossvein near the 

 second third of the discal cell. 



Eiirosta coiispiircata Doane is a synonym o'i reticulata Snow. 



Trypeta aurifera Thomson, and Ensina humilis Loew, are 

 synonyms oS. Acinia picciola Bigot; the latter belongs to Tephritis. 



Euaresta aqualis Loew also belongs to Tephritis. 



Tephritis nora Doane is a synonym oi platyptera Loew. 



T. affinis Snow is a synonym oi finalis Loew ; and T. obscuripennis 

 Snow is a synonym of Trypeta genalis Thomson, which belongs to 

 Tephritis. 



Eutreta aurantiaca Doane, and E. tricolor Doane, also belong to 

 Tephritis. 

 Tephritis tenebrosa, sp. nov. 



Head and its members yellow, the occiput grayish black, the two pairs of bristles 

 in front of the inner vertical ones, and those fringing the occiput, white, the other 

 bristles black ; body black, opaque gray pruinose, the hairs white, bristles of thorax 

 and scutellum black, those of the abdomen white, scutellum bearing four bristles, last 

 three abdominal segments each marked with a dorsal pair of blackish spots ; legs 



