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Myobia as suboenera of Pyrrosia,' but make no mention ol" the other 

 three names. Our si)ecies have yellow legs; three postsutural and. 

 three sternopleuval macrochictic: 



Scutellum largely or wholly black; abdomen yellow, in the male 

 marked with a dorsal vitta and usually the base of the fourth 

 segment, in the female with a dorsal vitta on the first two seg- 

 ments, black; lengtli, (5 mm. Bucks and Dehiware counties, y ^^ 

 Pa. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 105; Sept., 18t)5: ^'^ ^■**'^ 



J\f}jiobia.) thecata Coq. 



Scutellum and abdomen yellow, last two or three segments of the 

 latter sometimes marked with a dorsal spot of brown or black; 

 length, 7 to 11 mm. Audover, Mass. ; Ithaca, N.Y.; Jacksonville, 

 Fla., and Onaga, Kans. (Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences Phila., 

 Vol. VI., p. 177; 1821): Dexia. Myiohia dejrile Ooquillett, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sciences Phila., p. 313; Sept., 1895.) analis Say. 



/ ^Genus LESKIOMlMA Br. and Berg. 



Leskiomima Brauer and Bergeustamiu, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, V, )). 372; 1891. 



The type species is yellow, the upper part of the occiput, dorsum of 

 thorax, tarsi, and usually a few si)ots on the abdomen, black; usually ^'• 

 three postsutural and three sternopleural macrochicta' ; length, to 8 

 mm. Wliite Mountains and Frauconia, N. H. ; New York, N. Y. ; Ches- 

 ter County, Pa. ; Virginia; North Carolina, and Lake Worth, Florida. 

 ( Ausser. Zweif. Insekteii, Vol. II, p. 251; 1830: Stomoxys. Leskiomima 

 tenera Wied., Brauer and Bergenstamm in Utt.) tenera Wied. 



■^ Genus APINOPS, new genus. 



The characters of this new genus may be gleaned from the following 

 description of the type species: Black; head at vibrissa' slightly 

 longer than at base of antenna'; front, including the vitta, gray polli- 

 nose, in the male about one half, in the female two thirds, as wide as 

 either eye; ocellar bristles directed forward, frontal bristles descend- 

 ing nearly to middle of second antennal Joint; three pairs of orbital 

 bristles in the female, wanting in the male; antenme six-sevenths as 

 long as the face, third joint one and one-half times as long as the sec- 

 ond, rounded at the tip, arista bare, thickened to the middle, the 

 penultimate joint slightly longer than broad; sides of face bare, each 

 at narroAvest part scarcely one-tenth as wide as the nunlian depres- 

 sion ; vibrissa' strong, situated on a line with front edge of oral 

 margin, two or three bristles above each; cheeks one-seventh as wide 

 as the eye height; proboscis slender, rigid, the portion beyond the 

 basal articulation one and one sixth times as long as height of head, 

 labella not developed ; pali)i minute, scarcely longer than broad, ti[)ped 

 with a short bristle; thorax grayish polliuose, mai'ked with four black 



'Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 140; 1893. 



