100 Psyche [June 



The female differs but little from the male except that the front 

 is entirely shining black. Length 3.5 mm. 



Three specimens. Holotype and allotype from Goose Neck, 

 near Long Branch, N. J., June 12, 1902. Paratype, Riverton, 

 N. J., May 14. All are in the author's collection. 



In the "Insects of New Jersey" this was erroneously referred to 

 Heteroneura pietipes which it resembles superficially and, barring 

 the absence of the frontal "cross bristles," agrees fairly well with 

 the description of that species. It is also closely allied to 

 Heteromeringia nigrimana Loew. but the shining black cheeks and 

 white halteres seem to separate it from that species. 



Clusia czernyi sp. nov. 



Male: Upper half of the face black, orbits and lower half including the cheeks, 

 white, proboscis and palpi white, front yellow, antennas light yellow, arista and ocelli 

 black. Thorax yellow, pleura with a wide, black, shining si ripe extending from 

 the neck to the base of the abdomen, the rest of the pleura and sternum yellowish 

 white. Abdomen yellow with wide lateral stripes of black. Legs yellowish, base 

 of the femora and the coxae white, base of the posterior tibiae brownish, halteres 

 white. Wings grayish hyaline, with a middle and apical band of black, broadly 

 connected by a band filling all of that portion of the marginal and submarginal 

 cells. Length 5 mm. 



Female: Face yellow with two black stripes extending from the base of the an- 

 tennae to the oral margin, tips of the palpi black. The broad lateral stripes of the 

 abdomen are interrupted at the fifth segment. Ovipositor yellow. Length 6 mm. 

 In other respects resembling the male. 



Seventeen specimens. Holotype and allotype, Northeast Har- 

 bor, Me., July 1, 1909 (Dr. Charles S. Minot). In the collection 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History. Paratypes, Northeast 

 Harbor, Me., June 3, July 4, 19 and 23 (Dr. Minot), Eastport, 

 Me., July 15, Mt. Equinox, Vt., June 5, Chester, Mass., May 25 

 and 27, and North Mt., Pa., June 8, 1898 (C. W. Johnson); Fran- 

 conia, N. H. (Mrs. A. T. Slosson) ; Holland, N. Y., May 21 (M. C. 

 Van Duzee); Sport Island, Sacandaga River, N. Y., June 1G, 1910 

 (C. P. Alexander). 



This species has been confused with C. lateralis, from which 

 it can be readily separated by the double banding of the wings and 

 the broader and more continuous lateral abdominal stripes. Both 

 species have a similar distribution but C. lateralis usually appears 

 somewhat later in a given locality. At Chester, Mass., C. lateralis 

 was common in August but was not observed in May. 



