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gate punctures ; hair of head dull white, strongly mixed with black in 

 supraclypeal region, and nearly all black on front and vertex, though 

 pale on occiput and cheeks ; scape short ; antennae black, the last joint 

 slightly reddish ; hair of thorax soot-color, conspicuously plumose ; 

 mesothorax strongly punctured, dull, the anterior middle shining; 

 area of metathorax dull, but lower part of truncation shining, with a 

 deep median pit; wings strongly infuscated, nervures piceous ; b. n. 

 falling a very little short of t. m. ; third s. m. rather short ; legs black, 

 the hind femora, hind tibiae behind, and middle femora more or less 

 ferruginous ; spurs light ferruginous ; hair of anterior and middle 

 femora and tibiae mainly grayish, but of hind tibiae longer and black 

 or blackish, of all the tarsi black on outer side and red on inner ; scopa 

 of hind legs long and loose, plumose; abdomen very finely punctured, 

 the hind margins of the first two segments broadly suffused with red- 

 dish ; abdomen with black hair, very short and thin above, long be- 

 neath, and dorsally with much pale hair on basal declivity of first 

 segment, a very inconspicuous narrow band of pale tomentum at base 

 of second, and obscure median narrow bands on third and fourth; 

 apex with fuliginous hair ; apical plate transversely striated (as in 

 Thygater) . 



Habitat. — Kandy, Ceylon, February 10, 2 9 {E. Comber). 

 British Museum. A very surprising discovery. 

 Antliophoi'a porterae Ckll. 



9 . Campus of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 

 at flowers of cherry, April 18 {J. R. Watson). 

 Antliopliora porter?e var. watsoui n. var. 



cf . Hair of thorax above pale, with a yellowish tint, and 

 without any intermixture of black. I had at first taken this 

 for a distinct species, but in size, form of legs, pubescence, 

 face-markings, etc., it agrees exactly v^'xth poriem. The last 

 joint of the middle tarsus has long black hair on each side. 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico, at flowers of Phacelia corr^igata 

 A. Nelson [J. R. Watsofi). 

 Antliopliora lesqvierellae (Ckll.). 



cf . Campus of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 

 at flowers of Astragahis {J. R. Watson). 

 Tetralonia lycii (Ckll.). 



cJ". Albuquerque, New Mexico, at flowers of Astragalus^ 

 April 10 {J. R. Watson). 



Tetralonia pliaceliae n. sp.— 9 . Length about 13 mm., general 

 build and appearance of T. antics, hind spur not hooked. Hair of 



