INSECTS OF BKULAH, NEW MEXICO. 101 



IHI'TERA OF It II I. Ail. NEW MEXICO. 



BY C. W. JOHNSON. 

 Paclij i-rliina erythrophrys Will., Kan. Univ., ii.. 63. 



A male collected by Dr. Skinner has the abdominal segments, 

 second to the seventh inclusive, a bright orange-red, except for a 

 narrow lateral and posterior margin of black. Two males collected 

 by Mr. Henry L. Viereck, June 29, vary somewhat from the typical 

 form and from the one collected by Dr. Skinner in having the second, 

 third and fourth and the basal third of the fifth segment in one, and 

 the fifth and sixth in the other red Two of the three male specimens 

 in my collection from Bear Creek, Col., collected by Mr. E. J. Oslar, 

 show the same variation ; the other being typical. 



Mr. Viereck also obtained a female at Beulah, which has not been 

 heretofore described. It closely resembles the male except in the 

 color of the abdomen. The second segment has a broad basal band 

 of red and a narrower one separated by about an equal width of 

 black ; segments three to seven inclusive have a sub-basal red band 

 about one third the width of the segment; that on the seventh seg- 

 ment somewhat smaller and interrupted ; the bands do not reach 

 the lateral margin. Ovipositor dark brown. Length of $ 14 

 mm., 9 19 ram. 



Aspistes analis Kirby, Fauna Br, Amer., 311, Ta'n. v, fig. 8. 



This seems to differ from the typical form in having no lateral 

 line of red on the thorax. 



i hi I OS in skiniM'i-i n. sp.— 9 Head black; eyes glabrous; sides of the 

 face yellow and covered with a whitish pubescence, leaving a broad, shining* 

 medial stripe; front and vertex shining, the former with a spot of white pubes- 

 cence on the lower corners bordering the eye; antenna? reddish, the upper edge 

 of the third joint dark brown, arista? black and bare. Thorax black, the dorsal 

 portion shining and sparsely covered with very fine white hairs; humeri with a 

 whitish bloom; pleura? with a tuft of white hairs in front of the base of the 

 wing; scutellum with two slight bristles; halteres white. Abdomen shining 

 black, rather slender, with very fine white hairs. Legs, including coxa?, a uni- 

 form lighter yellow. Wings hyaline, with a light brownish tinge. Length 5h 

 mm. 



One specimen, Beulah, N. M., August 17. 



Cuterebra similis n. s.— Head black, with five more or less triangular 

 polliuose spots on each side contiguous with the eyes, the two occupying the ex- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. FEBRUARY. 1903. 



