1915] Johnson — New Species of Pseudotephriiis 49 



A NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDOTEPHRITIS. 



By Charles W. Johnson, 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



Pseudotephritis metzi sp. nov. 



Female: Front yellowish pollinose, thickly dispersed with fine black punctures 

 each bearing a small hair, vertex grayish with two orbital and two ocellar bristles, 

 a large round spot on the occiput back of the ocelli with two bristles, and two small 

 dots on each side also bearing bristles, occipital orbits with a row of seven bristle 

 bearing dots, the two lower ones slightly removed from the others; face yellowish 

 pollinose with numerous fine hairs; palpi and antennae yellow, the third joint brown. 

 Thorax grayish pollinose thickly punctured with black, each puncture bearing 

 a minute hair, dorsum with eight large spots arranged alternately in four rows. 

 In front of the scutellum is a short black line with two bristle bearing dots on 

 each side, above the wing and on the pleura are large irregular spots; scutellum 

 with two large shining discal spots, and four marginal bristle bearing dots, under 

 side of the scutellum with two large black spots with a yellowish band below; 

 metanotum grayish above, shining black below. Abdomen grayish pollinose, 

 finely punctated with black and with short fine black hairs; first segment subshiniiig, 

 third with two large black quadrate spots on the anterior margin and two oblong 

 spots on the posterior margin, the latter narrowly separated by a dorsal line; fourth 

 with similar markings but closer together and occupying the middle third of the 

 segment, first segment of the ovipositor broad, truncated at the end, slightly 

 pollinose and shining. Legs: femora except the tips and a sub-basal and subapical 

 band on the tibiae, brownish black, the remainder yellowish. Halteres white. 

 Wings hyaline, with blackish markings arranged as follows — a slight clouding at 

 the humeral cross-vein and across the base of the basal cells; a large spot or band 

 commences near the end of the first costal cell extending across the second, the 

 marginal, base of thcsubmarginal and middle of the first basal cell; another large 

 spot starts near the middle of the discal and extends across the third posterior cell 

 to near the end of the sixth longitudinal vein. There is also a small spot at the 

 base of the third posterior cell, a small spot at the end of the auxilliary vein, a 

 large spot at the end of second costal cell extending irregularly to and slightly 

 beyond the anterior cross-vein, a large spot halfway between the ends of the first and 

 second longitudinal veins, a spot on the posterior cross-vein and an apical band 

 extending from the tip of the marginal to the tip of the second posterior cells. 

 Length 7 mm. Wing 6 mm. 



One specimen. Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. Col- 

 lected by Mr. C. W. Metz. 



The species resembles P. vau Say., in the arrangement of the 

 costal spots but the spots are not connected with those of tlie 

 posterior margin by large yellowish cloudings. The apical spot 

 is larger than in P. vau. 



