98 Psyche [June 



Sigaloessa frontalis sp. nov. 



cf . Front wider than one eye, shining bkxck, a narrow silvery line on each side 

 of the ocellar triangle, beginning at the declivity of the occiput and continuing 

 straight forward half the length of front; anterior fourth of front yellow; compound 

 eyes not limiting the vertex laterally, it being nearly twice as wide as the front and 

 ending in a point each way; antennae yellow, third joint brown on apical half or 

 more, with upcurved short dense pale hair; arista black, short-plumose, with about 

 a dozen rays; face concave, yellow, with slight whitish reflection; peristoma with a 

 narrow shining black line almost in a horseshoe shape, between which and the eye 

 the moderately wide bucca is pure silvery, which does not extend across the facial 

 depression; proboscis and palpi yellow; a row of small hairs along the peristoma, 

 the anterior one on each side forming a minute vibrissa. The chsetotaxy of the 

 front is not well preserved, but one vertical and one fronto-orbital can be seen, 

 the latter close to the eye about the middle of the side. 



Mesonotum shining black, the sides beginning with humeri yellow as far as the 

 corners of the scutellum, which is also yellow; pleura yellow, a blackish shining 

 stripe on lower part of mesopleura, a spot on sternopleura and one behind it ; halteres 

 yellow with large black knob. Bristles of thorax not very well preserved, but the 

 following can be seen: 2 dc, 2 npl, 1 stpl, 1 post-alar, scutellar 1 pair and a small 

 hair each side. 



Legs yellow, slender. 



Abdomen blackish above, yellow below. 



Wings hyaline, venation as in lineata. 



Length, 1.5 mm.; of wing, 1.8 mm. 



A single male, collected in Peru in 1914 by H. S. Parish. 



NEW SPECIES OF TACHINID^ (DIPTERA) FROM NEW 



ENGLAND. 



By Harrison E. Smith, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Cereal 

 and Forage Insect Investigations. 



Phasia (Alophora) phasiatrata sp. nov. 



Black, densely brassy yellowish gray pollinose. Length 8.0 mm. 



Frontal vitta as \-iewed from the side, velvety browniish black; as \-iewed from in 

 front, yellowish gray pollinose. Ocellar triangle black, pollinose, the ocellar bristles 

 distinct, proclinate. Sides of front yellowish gray pollinose, widely diverging below; 

 at narrowest part less than one-third as wide as the frontal vitta. Frontal bristles 

 in a single row, descending to base of the antennae; outside of these sprinkled with 

 black hairs. Orbital bristles absent. Antennse black, poUinose, with a faint rufous 

 tinge at apex of second and base of the third anteimal joints. Third antennal joint 

 less than two times as long as the second. Arista thickened on approximately the 



