58 PSYCHE [June 



A NOTE ON CALOTARSA, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW 

 SPECIES OF CALLIMYIA. 



BY CHARLES W. JOHNSON, BOSTON, MASS. 



Platypeza (Calotarsa) pallipes Loew. 



The great variation in the two sexes of Platypeza has undoubtedly led to con- 

 fusion that will take some time to straighten out. The relationship of a few have 

 been suggested by Mr. Hugo Kahl in Professor Aldrich's catalogue, but that of P. 

 veluiina Loew and P. cinerea Snow does not seem to be quite clear. It was 

 while trying to correlate the males and females that my attention was called to 

 Platypeza pallipes Loew all females, taken at the same time and place as Calotarsa 

 ornatipes Town, all males. The latter is not as rare as is generally supposed; I 

 have recorded eighteen specimens, eleven of which are now before me together with 

 nine specimens of P. pallipes. On September 3, 1897, while on North Mt., Pa. 

 (above Stull) I captured almost in the same swing of the net C. ornatipes and P. 

 pallipes. On September 5, 1903, Mr. Owen Bryant while on board the schooner 

 "Sunshine" five miles east of the Isles of Shoals also collected a number of both. 

 On September 24 and 28, 1903, six specimens of P. pallipes were taken on the 

 windows of the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, and on October 

 1 a dead specimen of C. ornatipes. That the two represent but one species is evi- 

 dent, as to Calotarsa I prefer to treat it as a subgenus. The bibliography and 

 spionymy will stand as follows: 



Platypeza pallipes Loew, Centur., VI, p. 81, 1865. 9 . 



Calotarsa ornatipes Town., Can. Entom., XXVI, pp. 52, 102, 1894. c?. 



Platypeza ornatipes Banks, /. c. p. 88; Williston, /. c. p. 116; Snow, Kansas 

 Univ. Quart., Ill, pp. 143, 207, pi. XII, fig. 2, 1894, 1895; Johnson, Ent. News, 

 VII, p. 254, 1897; Greene, Ent. News, XIX, p. 241, 1908. 



Platypeza (Calotarsa) ornatipes Johnson, Psyche, XI, p. 19, 1904. 



Calotarsa ornatipes A\drlch, Ent. News, XVII, p. 123, pi. IV, fig. 2, 1906. 



Callimyia pulchella n. sp. 



(J' Face brownish, cheeks, occiput and frontal triangle black, with a slight 

 grayish pollen; antenna? brownish black, third joint acutely conical, shorter than the 

 arista. Thorax velvety black; scutellum orange yellow, base and basal angles 

 narrowly margined with black, the four bristles long. Abdomen velvety black, with 



