82 MAIXK AGRICULTURAL, EXPERIMENT STATION. I912. 



3. My CO til era paradoxa n. sp. 

 Female. Length 3 mm. Head and antennc-e dark brown, the 

 scape and palpi yellow. Thorax reddish yellow, dorsum with 

 faint indication of 3 dark stripes, the scutellum, center of 

 metanotum and the lower margin of the pleura, brown; hairs 

 yellow ; setae blackish. Abdomen reddish yellow, each segment 

 with a broad, indistinct, subfucous transverse fascia; ovipositor 

 yellow (Fig. 63). Coxa? and legs yellow, tarsi brown; middle 

 tibiae each with 2 or 3 setge on the flexor surface. Wings gray • 

 ish hyaline, with a central spot and a diffuse preapical cloud 

 cubitus forks distinctly proximad of the proximal end of the 

 crossvein (Fig. 188). Halteres yellow. Ithaca, N. Y. 



4. Mycothcra sp. 

 Female. L.ength 3 mm. Thorax and abdomen brown, 

 humeri yellow. Cubitus forks about under the fork of the 

 media. In other respects like AI. paradoxa. Black Rock 

 Creek, Wyo., Price Co., Wis., (W.M.W.) ; Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 

 In one N. Y. specimen the thorax is yellow with 3 distinct 

 brown stripes, and the apical wing cloud faint, in another the 

 apical wing cloud is entirely wanting. 



5. Mycothcra initis n. sp. 



Male. Length 3 mm. Plead and antenna?, brown, scape and 

 ])alpi yellow. Thorax reddish brown, the center of the mesono- 

 tum, scutellum and metanotum fuscous, humeri yellowish, setse 

 black. Abdomen dark reddish brown, hind margin of each 

 tergite indistinctly yellow, venter and hypopygium yellow (Fig. 

 64). Coxre and legs yellow, tarsi brown; middle tibi.x each 

 with a single seta on flexor surface. Wing hyaline, central 

 spot pale brown, no preapical cloud (Fig. 189). Halteres yel- 

 low. Wisconsin, July. 



6. Mycothcra recta n. sp. 



^lale. Length 3 mm. Head and thorax brown, scape and 

 iKilpi yellow. Thorax reddish brown, the center of the mesono- 

 tum, the scutellum and metanotum brownish, humeri yellow, 

 set?e black. Abdomen dark reddish brown, darker posteriorly, 

 hind margins of segments and venter indistinctly yellowish, 

 hypopygium duskv yellow (Fig. 65). Cox?e and legs yellow, 

 tarsi and tips of hind femora brown ; middle tibine each with 



