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the base; calypteres white; length, V2 mm. Alameda County, 

 Cal. A siui^le male specimen reared from an undetermined 

 lepidopterous chrysalis by Mr. Albert Koebele in September. 



Type No. 3041, U. S. National Museum antemuilis n. sp. 



Unrecognized species. — S. [Gnephalia) finitima Snow, Kansas Univer- 

 sity Quarterly, Vol. Ill, p. 184; 1895. N. Mex. 



Genus G^DIOPSIS Br. and Berg. 



(rOBdio^Jsis Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wieu, V, p. 336; 1891. 



Our species have four postsutaral and four sternopleural macrocluctiv : 



1. Fourth segment of abdomen black 12. 



Fourth segment yellow, second and third segments destitute of dis- 



cal macrochietic, legs black, macroch;et;e on sides of face very 

 small, hardly two-thirds as long as those on the facial ridges; 

 length, 11 mm. Philadelphia, Pa. (Zweif. Kais. Mus, VVien, 

 VI, p. 190; 1893.) mexicana Br. and Berg. 



2. Second and third segments of abdomen bearing only marginal 



macrochictic, femora and tibia' yellow; length, 7.5 mm. Tifton, 

 Ga., and Mobile, Ala. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 100; 



September, 1895.) Jiavipes Coq. 



Second and third segments bearing discal and marginal macro- 

 chietie, legs black; black, the face, cheeks, palpi, scutelluni, and 

 sometimes the second antennal joint and a spot on sides of each 

 of the first three segments of the abdomen, yellow; front of 

 male four-fifths, of female one and one-fifth times, as wide as 

 either eye, two pairs of orbital bristles in the female, none in 

 the male, sides of face bearing a row of macrocha>t;v as long as 

 those on the facial ridges, and in addition nnmerous bristly hairs, 

 principally located near the eyes ; cheeks over one-third as broad 

 as the eye-height'; antennw five sixths as long as the face, the 

 third joint in the male two and one-half times, in the female 

 twice, as long as the second, arista thickened on the basal two 

 thirds, the penultimate joint four or five times as long as wide; 

 facial ridges bristly on the lower three-fifths; thorax gray polli- 

 nose, marked with four black vitta', scutellnm bearing three 

 pairs of long marginal and a short apical pair of macroclnctas; 

 abdomen gray poUinose and with dark reflecting spots; middle 

 tibite each bearing three macrocha^ta' on the front side near the 

 middle, hind tibia^, outwardly ciliate, front pulvilli of male as 

 long as the last tarsal joint; wings hyaline, third vein bearing 

 two bristles near the base, bend of fourth vein not appcndicu- 

 late, calypteres white; length, 12 mm. Siskiyou Co., Cal. A 

 male and a female bred by A. Koebele from chrysalids of an 

 unknown Noctuid. Type No. 3642, U. S. Nat. Mus. .setosa n. sp. 



