1922] Curraji: Hammer schmidtia and Brachypoda 249 



very narrowly or obscurely brownish on their posterior half. Legs 

 yellow; hind femora, sub-base and preapical band on hind tibise and 

 the hind basitarsi and last segment, brownish or darkened. Wings 

 hyaline. 



"Male, rather robust, small, yellowish, eyes strongly contiguous; 

 vertex yellowish gray, with pale, very short pile; vertical triangle 

 narrow and acute, reaching forward to about the middle of the eyes; 

 frontal triangle yellow, bare. Antennae orange-yellow; third joint 

 ovate, longer than broad; arista darkened distally and with very fine 

 microscopic pubescence along its entire length. Face moderately 

 produced, light yellow, dusted with white and with fine white hairs, 

 the lower half produced and truncate, its upper angle slightly acute. 

 Mesonotum dark ocher yellow, dusted with brownish gray, at the sides 

 and behind, broadly ferruginous and more shining; two narrow and 

 approximated stripes medianly on the anterior two-thirds, two broad, 

 anteriorly and posteriorly abbreviated stripes outwardly, hairs rather 

 short and dense, yellow. Pleurae brown and black, thickly dusted 

 with gray; mesopleurae with somewhat longer hairs than those on 

 mesonotum. Scutellum convex, broadly rounded, much broader than 

 long, shining ocher yellow, rather evenly punctured, with light yellow 

 hairs and a few bristle-like ones on the posterior margin. Abdomen 

 much broader than thorax, broadest at posterior margin of second 

 segment; color light yellow, more or less stained with dark by body 

 contents; second segment more or less translucent. Coxae yellow. 

 Anterior and middle pairs of legs yellow, with white pile. Hind pair 

 somewhat darker, the femora distally tinged with brown and with 

 minute black spines along ventral surface; tibite tinged with brown 

 on distal half; first tarsal joint grayish brown, paler distally and 

 ventrally. Wings hyaline, faintly smoky, without trace of maculation, 

 slightly darkened distally along anterior margin; stigma yellow. Halteres 

 pale yellow. " (Shannon). 



The species has been sufficiently discussed under the 

 preceding species. It has been reported from Fairfax County, 

 Virginia, (type locality), Massachusetts and New Hampshire 

 (Johnson), and I have two female specimens from Orillia, 

 Ontario, taken by myself, May 5th and 21st, 1921. The 

 description of the female given here is made from local speci- 

 mens, while the description of the male is that of Shannon. 



Brachyopa perplexa Curran. 



Closely related to B. notata, but arista not as pubescent and 

 epistoma more produced; larger than B. media and with black abdominal 

 markings, and the median longitudinal black line practically complete. 



Length, 6.5 to S.5 mm. Male Face and front pale yellow, thickly 

 covered with white pollen, the cheeks and frontal triangle, except 

 narrowly next to the eyes, shining; a brownish or ferruginous stripe 

 from the eyes to the oral margin; occiput below shining ferruginous, 



