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fornia. (Amer. Naturalist, Vol. V, p. 219; 1871: Melanesphora. 
Celatoria crawtt Coquillett, Insect Life, Vol. I, p. 255; Feb., 1890. 
New genus near Newera, Brauer and Bergenstamm in litt.) 
diabrotice Shimer. 
Palpi black, front in male two-fifths, in the female two-thirds, as 
wide as either eye, front pulvilli of male as long as the last 
tarsal joint; black; frontal bristles descending slightly below 
the middle of the second antennal joint, cheeks one-seventh as 
wide as the eye height, facial ridges bristly on the lowest third, 
antenne nearly or fully as long as the face, the third joint two 
and one-fourth times as long as the second, as wide as the latter 
is long, penultimate joint of arista shorter than broad; thorax 
nearly Sua of pollen except on the sides, abdomen with a 
narrow fascia of white pollen on the bases of the last three 
segments, venter of female thickly studded with short, stout 
spines on hind part of the second and third segments; front 
pulvilli of the female nearly one-half as long as the last tarsal 
joint; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with smoky, calypteres of 
female white, the hind ones in the male strongly tinged with 
brown except at the bases; length, 3.5to5mm. [Franconia and 
White Mountains, New Hampshire, and Los Angeles County, 
Cal. Two males and three females, one male from the latter 
locality captured by the writer in March, the others taken by 
Mrs. A. Lf. Slosson and the late H. K. Morrison. Type No. 3555, 
U.S. National sMiusenm.. 2192 satan ee se eee spinosa N. Sp. 
Genus HYPOSTENA Meig. 
Hypostena Meigen, System. Besch. Eur. Zweif. Insekten, Vol. VII, p 239; 1838. 
Tachinophyto Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIX, p. 130; June, 1892. 
Pseudomyothyria Townsend, loc. cit., p. 151. 
This synonymy is by the writer. Our species have only three post- 
sutural macrochiete : 
1. Third vein bearing less than six bristles at its base...........-. 2. 
Third vein bristly almost or quite to the small crossvein, hind cross- 
vein near last third of distance from the small to bend of fourth 
vein; black, the palpi and apex of proboscis yellow; length, 
5 mm. From the type specimen. Canada; Beverly, Mass.; 
Hartford, Conn.; District of Columbia; North Carolina, and 
northern Illinois. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc., Vol. III, p. 54; 
sune, 18952 “Thrgyptocerd.) -=- tage sae ee dunningti Coq. 
2. Apical cell open or closed in the margin of the wing........-.--- Oe 
Apical cell closed, its petiole at least twice as long as the small 
crossvein; black, the palpi yellow; length, 5.5 mm. from the 
type specimen. Avalon, N.J., and southern California. (Jour- 
nal N. Y. Ent. Soe., Vol. II, p. 55; June, 1895: Pseudomyo- 
CRYPTO.) ee heen tie abet ete che oe een eee .....- lortricis Coq. 
