58 Psyche [April 



Round Mountain, Blanco Co., Texas. Allied to S. hamifera 

 Loew, and previously looked iipon as a variation, but having so 

 many distinguishing characters that it seems worthy of a specific 

 name. 



Xylota nebulosa sp. nov. 



Male. Face yellow, front brownish, covered with a yellowish 

 pubescence, cheeks brown, vertical triangle and occiput black, shin- 

 ing, antennffi and aristse black, the third joint round. Thorax 

 bronze black, the humeri whitish pollinose, pleura and scutelluin 

 black, somewhat shining. A])domen black, the first segment shin- 

 ing, the second with two large yellow spots narrowly divided by 

 dorsal line, expanding posteriorly into a large triangle, base mar- 

 gined with black which does not reach the lateral margin, third 

 segment opaque, the side shining, fourth segment metallic green, 

 covered with a yellow tomentum that is longer towards the pos- 

 terior margin, fifth segment shining black. Venter brownish black, 

 the second segment entirely yellow. Femora and coxse black, tibite 

 and tarsi yellow, the last two joints of the front and middle, and 

 the last three joints of the hind tarsi, blackish, middle of the tibia 

 brown, Halteres yellow. The outer half of the wing clouded with 

 dark brown, base hyaline. Length 9 mm. 



One specimen, Texas. 



This resembles somewhat the figure and description of X. paux- 

 illa Will., but the rounded, not elongated, third antennal joint, 

 the less coarctate abdomen and the more heavily clouded wings, 

 readily distinguish this species. 



Epiplatea dohaniani sp. nov. 



Male. Front brown, opaque, sparsely covered with short black 

 hairs, the entire orbital margins whitish, face yellow, cheeks brown 

 and about two-thirds the height of the eye, occiput brown, covered 

 with short black hairs and whitish pruinose, sharply defined at 

 the cheeks, antennae yellow, arista dark ])rown, base yellow. Thorax 

 dark brown with sliort l)lack bair, macrochpeta? as in the genotvne 



