UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 

 TECHNICAL BULLETINS 



COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ENTOMOLOGY 



Vol. I, No. 2. pp. 153-198 October. 1906 



CATALOGUE OF THE EPHYDRIDAE, WITH BIBLI- 

 OGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION OF 

 NEW SPECIES. 



By BURLE J. .T0NE8. 



The present paper represents part of the scientific results 

 of the study of the mosquito problem near Burlingame. One 

 of the flies described herein was the most conspicuous inhabitant 

 of many of the mosquito-infested pools. Three species of this 

 family have been hitherto credited to California ; ten others are 

 now identified in the University collection, of which four are 

 new. 



NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIA EPHYDRIDAE. 



Notophila varia, n. sp., S and 2 ■ — I'he lighter speci- 

 mens of this species are similar to N. bellula Williston, from 

 which they can be distinguished by the brown vitta of the 

 pronotum, the smaller size, and usually the lighter color of 

 the antennge. The brown spots on the upper part of the 

 mesopleura3 seem also to be lacking here. 



Varying from black to dull brown; front yellowish brown, 

 with sometimes a trace of a broad, darker-brown stripe from 

 the orbits on either side at the vertex to the lower edge of 

 the front. The narrow orbits gray. Antennae yellow, rarely 

 reddish yellow, the upper part of the second and third joints 

 and sometimes the tip of the third joint brownish or blackish. 



