208 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l; 



Gnophomyia maestitia sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. 8.) 



Color black ; a yellow spot on the caudal end of the pronotum 

 wings dark colored with a darker brown cross band near the cord 

 halteres black ; antennae of the $ elongate. Male, length 5.5 mm. 

 wing, 5.8 mm. Female, length 5.5 mm. ; wing, 5.8 mm. 



Male. — Palpi black ; antennae long, extending beyond the base of the 

 wing; flagellar segments elongate, black; head black. 



Pronotal sciitellum largely light yellow, the median portion dark. 

 Mesonotal praescutum deep black ; scutum, scutellum and postnotum 

 black, the scutellum shiny and with a pearly lustre. Pleurae black; a 

 narrow, light yellow mark extending from the end of the pronotal 

 scutellum almost to the wing-root; a yellow blotch between the mid- 

 dle and hind coxx. 



Halteres black. Legs black. Wings dark colored, a broad, irregular 

 dark band in the vicinity of the cord ; cells R and M almost hyaline. 

 Venation (see Plate ix, figure 8): Cross-vein r connecting with R2; 

 i?2 very long; Rs short, straight. 



Abdominal tergites dark brownish black ; sternites a little paler. 



Female. — Yellow color of the thorax reduced, the pronotal pattern 

 confined to a small rounded spot underneath the pseudosutural fovea; 

 yellow on the mesosternum not indicated ; antennae rather shorter. 



Holotype, male, Vilcanota, Peru ; Allotype, female, Callanga, 

 Peru ; Paratypcs, r male, Vilcanota, Peru ; 3 males, 2 females, 

 Callanga, Peru ; in the Hungarian National Museum ; i male. 

 I female, paratypes, in author's collection. 



Most closely allied to nigrina Wied.'" from which it differs in 

 its slightly larger size, difference in body coloration and in 

 wing pattern ; luctuosa O. S.^^ and tristissima O. S.^^ 

 are the only other species with which it could be confused, 

 differing from the former by its long antennae, non-pubescent 

 wings, etc., and from the latter by its black halteres, short and 

 straight radial sector, etc. 



Gnophomyia pervicax sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. 7.) 



Shiny yellowish; thoracic dorsum with three brown stripes; pleurae 

 yellow with a dorsal brown band ; wings hyaline with a narrow brown 

 seam along the cord ; vein R2 short. Male, length 6 mm. ; wing, 6.4 

 mm. Female, length 4.5 mm.; wing, 6 mm. 



Fetnale. — Palpi dark brown, the basal segment a little lighter; an- 



>• Wiedemann, Aussereur-Zweifl. Ins., vol. i, p. 37 (1828). 



"Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 224 (1859). 



12 Osten Sacken, /. c. 



