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from Provincetown, Mass., has two tufts on each side, tlie anterior one being more 
prominent and giving the appearance of a transverse band, although no black hairs 
are present on the dorsal portion. Legs yellow, coxae, bases of the femora, knees 
and tips of the tarsi dark lirown. Wings with the anterior basal third, dark brown, 
varying somewhat in extent and intensity. The specimens from Groton, Mass., are 
noticeably darker near the veins, the posterior portion of the wing hyaline, with a 
slight grayish tinge. Length, 5-7 mm. 
$ . Front grayish above the antennae, and with short silvery white hairs, 
upper part and vertex grayish pollinose with black hairs. The abtlomcn has two 
distinct bands of black hairs, the hairs procumbent, the brown area of the wings 
less profused and hardly e.xtending beyond the middle of the first basal cell, in other 
respects resembling the cJ'. 
The records for this species are at pre.sent confined to two states. In New 
Jersey it was first taken by the writer at Jamesburg, Jidy 4, 1893, on i\Iay 30, 1897, a 
single specimen was collected at Clementon, and on June 13 of the same year a num- 
ber were taken at Atco. Since then (June 8, 1902) it has been collected by Mr. 
E. Daecke at Iona and I)v Dr. P. P. Calvert, at Albion, June 1. The first specimens 
from Massachusetts to come under my observation were two, badly rubbed, from 
West Chop, IMartha’s Vineyard, collected by Mr. Albert P. IMorse July 4, 1893. On 
June 2-1-27, 1904, I collected a number of specimens at Provincetown, and at Groton, 
July S, 1905. There is a rubbed specimen in the Loew collection of this species 
marked “sp. nova inad.” 
This interesting species I have always found under similar conditions, i. e., 
hovering over or alighting on the gray white sand of an old roadway, the color of the 
sand and fly being very similar. It resembles B. meiopium (). S. from California, 
but lacks the brown strip of hairs extending from the shoulders to the base of the 
wings and also the black femora of that species. T^es (c? 9 ) from Provincetown 
are in the New England collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. 
Bomuylius srBV.VRius n. sp. 
B. lancijer Johnson. In Smith’s Cat’I. N. J. Ins. p. 649, 1890 (not of Osten 
Saeken). 
C?. Face reddish brown, shining, sparsely covered with long black hairs; 
frontal triangle covered with a brownish pollen and bearing long black hair; inferior 
orbits and cheeks white, with long silvery, white hairs; antennae brownish black, 
the third joint very narrowly lanceolate; proboscis 6 mm. in length. Thorax black, 
opaque, covered with a long erect dull yellowish pile, which is mi.xed with black on 
