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fornia. (Amer. Naturalist, Vol. Y, p. 219; 1871: Melanosphora. 

 Celatoria craicii Coquillett, Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 1*30 ; Feb., 1800. 

 New genus near Neivra, Braiier and Bcrgenstaium in litt.) 



diabroticw Shimer. 



Palpi black, front in male two-fiftlis, in the female two-thirds, as 



wide as either eye, front pul villi of male as long as the last 



^^*|'* tarsal joint; black; frontal bristles descending slightly below 



the middle of the second antennal joint, cheeks one-seventh as 



^ / .^ '"' wide as the eye height, facial ridges bristly on the lowest thir<l, 



1^ 7/^ antenna^, nearly or fully as long as the face, the third joint two 



P and one-fourth times as long as the second, as wide as the latter 



is long, penultimate joint of arista shorter than broad; thorax 



/ A^ > a-t^ jL> nearly destitute of pollen except on the sides, abdomen with a 



^^'^^^-^ frJ(^'*'^ narrow fascia of white pollen on the bases of the last three 



77 yx.^^-^ segments, venter of female thickly studded with short, stont 



spines on hind part of the second and third segments; front 



Ijulvilli of the female nearly one-half as long as the last tarsal 



joint; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with smoky, calypteres of 



female white, the hind ones in the male strongly tinged with 



brown except at the bases; length, 3.5 to 5 mm. Franconia and 



White Mountains, New Hampshire, and Los Angeles County, 



Cal. Two males and three females, one male from the latter 



locality captured by the writer in March, the others taken by 



Mrs. A. T. Slosson and the late H. K. Morrison. Type No. 3555, 



U. S. National Museum spinosa n. sp. 



Genus 'gYT OSTENA Meig. /^ ^//-^ ^/> ^y to. 



Tach\noi)]ujii> Towuseiul, Traus. Amer. Ent. Soo,, Vol. XIX, p. 130; Jnne, 1892. 

 Pseitdomyotkyria Townsend, loc. cit., p. 131. 



This synonymy is by the writer. Our species have only three post- 

 sutural macrochfeta? : 



1. Third vein bearing less than six bristles at its base 2. 



^ ^_>Third vein bristly almost or quite to the small crossvein, hind cross- 



/'/'-'r^V'^^ K^"^' vein near last third of distance from the small to bend of fourth 



(hy^^-^^^r^t/n^ vein ;;black, the palpi 'and 'apex of proboscis yellow; length, 



°^ ,, i^^"'^^ 5 mm. From the type specimen. Canada; Beverly, Mass.; 



P^ Lyoi^ Hartford, Conn.; District of Columbia; North Carolina, and 



f '^ northern Illinois. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 54; 



, I. Juiie, 1895: Thryptoccra,) ^ *' dunningii Coq. 



2. Apical'celi open w dosfed m the margin of the wing. .r. .../.. /. 3. 

 Apical cell closed, its petiole at least twice as long as the small 



crossvein; black, the palpi yellow; length, 5.5 mm. From the 

 type specimen. Avalon, N. J., and southern California. (Jour- 

 nal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 55; June, 1895: Pseudomyo- 

 thyria.) tortricis Coq. 





