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2. Front tibise strongly dilated; wings brownish black, very finely flecked with 

 white, apical band broad, slightly curved and reaching the posterior margin 



of the wing punctulata Macq. 



Front tibiae scarcely dilated; wings grajash with small, irregular flecks of white, 

 apical band narrow, angulate and not reaching the posterior margin of the 

 wing americana O. S. 



Haematopota rara sp. nov. 



Female. Face whitish pollLnose, thickly punctated with black, the upper punc- 

 tures fusing into an irregular spot near the base of the antennae; lower half of the 

 front shining black, slightly rugose and raised along the upper margin; the upper 

 portion of the front grayish pollinose, with two subquadrate, velvety black spots 

 on each side narrowly separated from the shining portion; a minute central spot 

 also present on the upper part of the front; antennae black, the first joint consid- 

 erably thickened, shiny, slightly pruinose on the inner side near the base, third 

 joint reddish, base yellow, annuli black; palpi light yellow. Thorax grayish 

 black, with three pollinose stripes ; humeri, a spot above the base of the wing, and 

 the post-alar callosities, browTi; pleurae and scutellum grayish pollinose. Abdo- 

 men grayish black, with whitish pollinose posterior margins and spots on the seg- 

 ments similar to those of H. americana. Femora and coxae black, grayish pollinose; 

 anterior tibiae black, basal fourth white; middle and posterior tibiae with three black 

 and two white bands imequal in width, the middle black band being about double 

 the width of the others; tarsi black, base of the middle and posterior tarsi white. 

 Stalks of the halteres white, knobs brown. Wings grayish black, with numerous 

 white dots, some of which form ocellar spots, with the cross veins forming the 

 center of the spots; the white apical band broad and extending from the end of 

 the second to the posterior branch of the third longitudinal vein; stigma brown. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



One specimen collected by the author at Folsom, Delaware 

 County, Pa., June 12, 1894. 



Haematopota punctulata Macquart. 



H. -punctulata Macq., Dipt. Exot., I, 1, p. 163, 1838. 

 As the description of this species is brief and not accessible to 

 many I will redescribe the species more fully : 



Female. Face whitish pollinose punctated with black, the upper punctures fusing 

 and forming an irregular transverse stripe extending from the base of the antennae; 

 lower part of the front shining black, upper portion of the front and vertex black, 

 grayish pollinose, the former with two subtriangular, velvety black spots, very 

 narrowly connected with the shining black area at the lower angle; a minute black 

 spot above at the lower end of an obsolete vertical vitta. Thorax dull black with 

 three very narrow grayish stripes; humeri and sternum grayish pollinose. Abdo- 

 men dull black, with grayish posterior margin and two obsolete spots near the 



