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long, white discal spot on the basal half. Halteres pale yellowish. CoxiB and the 

 femora mostly pale yellowish; tibia? and tarsi dark brown except that the first 

 tarsal segment and the extremities of the others, except the distal one of the fifth 

 are rather broadly banded with yellowish white; claws long, slender, imidenta^e, 

 the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, roundly 

 truncate; terminal clasp segment swollen basally, tapering, obtuse apically; dorsal 

 plate long, broad, narrowly incised, the lobes broadly rounded ; ventral plate long, 

 slender, rounded. Harpes short, stout, tapering, obtuse; style rather short, stout, 

 rounded. 



Reared from grass (presumably a gall) taken August 11, 1891 at 

 Cadet, Mo. and loaned for study by the U. S. National Museum. 

 Type C. 909. 



Neolasioptera Irimera n. sp. Female. — Length 1..5 mm. Antennae dark brown, 

 sparsely haired, twenty-one segments, the fifth with a length about one half its 

 diameter, the last segment broadly oval. Palpi; first segment short, stout, irregular, 

 the second almost subglobose, broadly oval, the third nearly twice the length of the 

 second, slender. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. 

 Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum a little darker. Abdomen a nearly uniform 

 dark brown, the segments very sparsely margined posteriorly with a few whitish 

 hairs. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with costa near 

 the basal half, discal spot large. Halteres yellowish white. Legs a nearly uniform 

 reddish brown; claws unidentate, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor 

 yellowish, about haK the length of the body; terminal lobes narrowly oval, thickly 

 clothed with stout setse. 



Reared from a stem gall on sunflower taken at Fort Grant, Ariz., 

 and loaned for study by the U. S. National Museum. Type C. 907. 



Rhopalomyia gnaphnlodis n. sp. Female. — Length 2 mm. Antenna? reddish 

 brown; seventeen or eighteen subsessile segments, the fifth with a length about 

 two and one half times its diameter; terminal segment slightly produced or fused 

 with the preceding. Palpi; first segment short, subglobose, the second narrowly 

 oval. Mesonotum sliining reddish bro%vn. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum 

 darker. Abdomen sparsely haired, deep reddish, the basal segment darker. Costa 

 pale straw. Halteres yellowish. Coxse reddish brown; femora fuscous yellowish; 

 tibiae reddish, darker apically; tarsi reddish brown; distal tarsal segments missing 

 in specimen; the fuscous yellowish ovipositor stout, nearly as long as the body, the 

 lobes narrowly oval, sparsely setose. 



Reared by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Col., from a woolly, 

 polythalamous gall, diameter 1 cm., on Artemisia gnaphalodes. Type 

 C. 1382. 



(To be continued.) 



