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Hypocerina barberi sp. no v. 



P'emale: Black, subshining. Lower row of frontal biistles straight, post-antennal 

 pair divergent. Antenna; brownish, third joint with very short whitish pilosity, 

 arista pale, only very indistinctly pubescent on third section; palpi brown, moder- 

 ately bristled. Mesonotum with short hairs and two wide placed dorso-central 

 posterior bristles on disk, scutellum with two bristles. Abdomen opaque black, 

 first segment very short, second dilated posteriorly, two and one-half times as long 

 as first and with a few lateral posterior bristles, third and succeeding segments each 

 about two-thirds as long as second. Legs brown, tibiae and tarsi paler, fore tibia? 

 with one antero-dorsal bristle at basal third, mid tibia; with one antero-dorsal and 

 one postero-dorsal bristle at basal third and one dorsal at apical fourth, hind 

 tibiae with one antero-dorsal and one postero-dorsal bristle at basal third one almost 

 dorsal bristle at below middle and a very short bristle at near apex on antero-dorsal 

 surface, mid and hind tibial spurs long, hind pair with a shorter spur on anterior 

 side, hind tarsus twice as long as tibia. Wings clear, costa short of middle, first 

 division almost twice as long as second, costal fringe very short. Halteres black. 

 Length 1.5 mm. 



Type: Cat. No. 15323 U. S. National Museum. 



Locality: Dead Run, Fairfax County, Virginia Oct. 26, 1912. 

 (Barber and Schwarz). Four females, taken from a bottle which 

 had been sunk in the ground and baited with cheese as a beetle 

 trap. 



This species bears a resemblance to the males of Puliciphora 

 Dahl, but the spinose tibia? separate it at once from that genus as 

 does also the presence of wings and halteres in the female. It also 

 resembles the smaller species in the genus Hypocera from which it 

 is separated by the presence of only two instead of three rows of 

 frontal bristles. 



Named in honor of Mr. H. S. Barber. 



Aphiochaetajflavipalpis sp. nov. 



Male: Brown, shining; frons slightly broader than long, lower post-antennal 

 bristles less than half the size of the upper pair, outer pair in first row of bristles 

 nearly in line transversely with upper post-antennals, the inner pair a little lower 

 than post-antennals, antenna; small, brown, arista longer than breadth of frons, 

 slight'y pubescent; palpi yellow, large and projecting, a very few weak bristles 

 present; pleura; brown, yellow on lower poitions, mesopleura with a number of equal 

 sized bristles, scutellum with four equal sized bristles; abdomen subopaque brown, 

 segments narrowly pale bordered posteriorly, a few short, scattered hairs on all 

 segments, those on apical segment most distinct, hypopygium large, projecting, 

 gray dusted, ventral processes large, anal protuberance of good size, clear yellow; 

 legs yellow, hind femora darkened at apices, hind tibial setula; weak, most dis- 



