200 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. XI, 



Eudrapetis facialis, sp. nov. 



Length 1.5 mm. Broad, black, shining, mesonotum with dense, 

 white hairs and with erect dorsocentrals on the disk, face white-pruinose, 

 legs yellowish. Posterior orbits white-pruinose, front opaque black, 

 as broad as the second antennal joint, face relatively broad, narrowest 

 in the middle, cheeks obliquely descending in back, one-ninth the eye- 

 height ; palpi yellow, proboscis blackish ; antennas black, ascending, the 

 second joint with a seta beneath, the third joint lanceolate, one-half 

 longer than wide, the arista terminal, slender, twice as long as the 

 antennae. Pleurae pollinose posteriorly and more or less along the 

 sutures; abdomen shining except along the extreme sides, its hairs 

 sparse, white, hypopygium small, globular. Legs luteous, the hind 

 metatarsi dark, anterior femora with one preapical, hind femora with 

 two, hind tibia? without extensor bristles but with one pair each of short, 

 stout preapical and apical bristles. Halteres pale yellow; calypteres 

 fringed with six fine white cilia. Wings hyaline, veins pale brown, 

 third and fourth veins converging, the second, third and fourth sections 

 of the costa proportioned 2 : 2 : 1 , anterior cross- vein at two-thirds the 

 length of the second basal cell, the outer two sections of the fourth vein 

 proportioned 1:4, the outer section of the fifth vein shorter than the 

 preceding, margin uniformly short-ciliate. 



Two specimens: Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, June, received 

 through Professor O. A. Johannsen of Cornell University; and 

 Medicine Hat, Alberta, collected by J. R. Malloch and deposited 

 in the U. S. National Museum. 



Eudrapetis nitens, sp. nov. 

 9 • Length 1.4 mm. Head and body entirely jet black, the legs 

 dark brown, the halteres white. Face linear, front narrowly V-shaped, 

 at the bottom nearly as broad as the width of an antennal joint; lower 

 third of orbits pollinose, occiput, vertex, front and oral margin polished; 

 palpi and proboscis black, the former cinereous pubescent; second 

 antennal joint bisetose below, third joint short oval, the arista slender, 

 microscopically sparsely pubescent, and two and a half times as long 

 as the antenna. Thorax entirely polished, the notal hairs moderate in 

 length and density, the central and distant two scutellar bristles alone 

 long. Hairs of hind tibiae rather long, four pronounced preapical but no 

 extensor bristles present, the apical lappet strong. Wings lightly 

 infumated, veins strong and blackish, costal sections approximately 

 1 :0.6 :0.8 :0.3, third and fourth veins converging at apex, sections 

 of fourth vein as 0.5 : 0.4 : l.S, of fifth vein, 4 : 5. 



Type: Panama, March, 1915, received from Dr. A. H. 

 Sturtevant. Paratypes from Havana, Cuba (Sturtevant, and 

 Orizaba, Mexico, (Wm. M. Mann, in Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology) differ in having the legs usually quite black, the 

 posterior occiput slightly pollinose and the mesonotal hairs 



