March 1897] 



PSYCHE. 



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?. Front clothed with grayish pollen 

 which has a brassy tiiij^e except near an- 

 tennae, ocellar area brownish with a slightly 

 fuscous tinge around it; frontal callosity 

 brown, more or less rounded diamond- 

 shaped, wider than long. Some black hairs 

 on front. Antennae pale yellowish with a 

 decided fuscous tinge, clothed with tine 

 black hairs; third joint black or blackish- 

 brown, pointed-conical, bulbous at base. 

 First antennal joint in one specimen cjiiite 

 fuscous, second joint quite yellowish. Face 

 yellowish clothed %yith gray pollen, with a 

 yellow, brownish-yellow, or brownish cal- 

 losity on each side, and a smaller black or 

 blackish-brown one on each cheek. Palpi 

 pale brownish, or brownish-yellow. Thorax 

 soft brown, with a median pair of widely 

 separated parallel brassy-yellowish vittae 

 hardly reaching scutellum, an interrupted 

 one also on lateral edge of thorax which is 

 continued around edge of scutellum, the rest 

 of latter being of the brown color of the 

 thorax. Pleurae gray pollinose. The four 

 yellowish-gray vittae of thorax leave the 

 brown in the form of three rather heavy 

 vittae. Abdomen soft rather dark brown, 

 hind corners of first segment gray pollinose; 

 hind borders of second to sixth segments 

 brassy-yellowish, broader on sixth segment, 

 prolonged anteriorly on median line in a 

 pointed vitta not reaching front border of 

 segment, this point being quite obsolete on 

 sixth segment, seventh segment (as much as 

 is visible) wholly brassy-yellowish. Legs 

 yellowish; hips, knees, ends of tibiae, and 

 all of tarsi brown or blackish, except meta- 

 tarsi, only the distal ends of which are black. 

 Knees sometimes without atiy black or 

 brown. Venter wholly silvery-gray pollinose. 

 Wings with fuscous clouds on stigmal area, 

 on cross-vein at proximal end of first sub- 

 marginal and first posterior cells, on cross- 

 veins at distal end of discal cell (or bases of 

 2d and 3d posterior cells), on t'uication of 

 third vein, and at base of Iburth posterior 

 cell. Only a faint tinge of fuscous elsewheie, 



becoming faintly yellowish on basal half of 

 wing, and with an irregular whitish area on 

 apical portion. Halteres soft brown, some- 

 times with a paler shade. 



C/trvsops facia/is, n. sp. West 

 Fork. July. 19. One 9. 



5. Length, S mm. excluding antennae. 

 Front fully one-third width of head, blackish 

 or brownish, clothed with yellowish-gray 

 pollen. Ocellar area oblong, black, polished, 

 reaching nearly to the eye on either side, 

 connected by a fuscous spot with the frontal 

 callosity in front of it; latter shining polished 

 brown, with a yellowish shade on front por- 

 tion and a blackish shade behind, elliptical, 

 about twice as wide as long. Antennae black, 

 second joint about three-fourths as long as 

 first and reddish on underside, first joint 

 yellowish below and considerably so on sides. 

 Front silvery pollinose in the narrow space 

 between frontal tubercle and antennae. Face 

 vellow. with silvery pollen at upper corners, 

 yello\v [lollen in uiiddle and down cheeks, 

 a large shining black callosity on each cheek, 

 and four shining brown callosities across mid- 

 dle of face. Palpi blackish-brown, lancets 

 yellowish. Occiput grayish-bras.sy. Under- 

 side of head with whitish hair. Thorax shin- 

 ing black, with a pair of median yellowish- 

 gray vittae separated by a brownish line, a 

 black line on the outside of these, a grayish- 

 brassy stripe on each side and two below on 

 pleurae parallel with it. Thorax thinly 

 clothed on dorsum and pleurae with yellow 

 hair, thicker lines of which follow the lateral 

 and upper pleural pollinose stripes. Scutel- 

 lum shining black, faintly grayish pollinose, 

 with yellowish hairs. Abdomen yellow, first 

 segment with two large coalesced median 

 black spots leaving only a dot of yellow on 

 middle of hind margin, second and third 

 segments each with a black marking formed 

 by the coalescing anteriorly of two sub-rec- 

 tangular spots which leave a median yellow 

 angle invading the black marking behind. 



