1915] Aldrich — Neiv American Species of Asleia and Sigalosssa 95 



Types of new species are in the author's collection except where 

 otherwise indicated. 



A specimen of Sigaloessa flaveola Coq. is in the author's collection, 

 taken at Lawrence, Kans. The only other described species, 

 bicolor Loew, has not been seen. 



Asteia is here recorded from North America for the first time. 



Asteia beata sp. aov. 



9 . Yellow, the front brown and mesonotum sinning black; abdomen with five 

 rows of conspicuous black dots. 



Front wider than one eye, brown above, gradually yellowish below; two pairs of 

 small verticals, one frontal on each side close to eye and above middle of front, recli- 

 nate; ocellars minute; antennte short, thick, yellow, a rather long erect hair on second 

 joint; arista with about 7 alternating rays, jointed zigzag between them; face wide, 

 short, mostly taken up with a silver crossband, which is very narrowly margined 

 with black above and be- 

 low; vibrissse small but 

 distinct; proboscis and 

 palpi yellow, the epis- 

 toma with a sharp rim 

 extending down to enclose 

 these when retracted; 

 lower part of occiput 

 yellow. 



Mesonotum shining Fig- 1- Asteia beata sp. nov., wing, 



black, narrowly yellowish 



behind. 2 psdc, 1 npl, 2 yellow stpl,' 1 pair scutellars, and apparently no other 

 thoracic bristles; pleurae yellow from the npl suture down, with a black spot on 

 sternopleiu-a and another behind it; scutellum pure yellow, somewhat swollen, 

 with one pair of divergent, ascending bristles; metanotum yellow above, blackish 

 below; halteres yellow, the knob elongated, black on outer side. 



Abdomen yellow, soft and shriveled, with conspicuous deep black dots on the hind 

 edges of the segments as follows: a median row of three, a lateral row of five, and 

 a sublateral row (below the lateral) of four, each row beginning with the first seg- 

 ment. 



Legs yellow, slender. 



Wings hyaline, venation as figured. 



Length, 2.-i mm.; of wing, 2.8 mm. 



A single female, Chester, Mass., August 6, 1914, collected by 

 C. W. Johnson, to whom it has been returned. A label bears the 

 note, "Eyes green." 



Asteia albovaria sp. nov. 



cT. Shining brownish-black, abdomen largely yellow, legs yellow; a band on 

 face, upi)er part of pleurae, and scutellum, pure white. 



Front about as wide as one eye, shining blackish to the anterior edge; antennae 

 brown, the lower edge of the third joint yellow; arista zigzag, with about 6 rays; 



