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through the dorsocentrals and may extend onto the scutellum; all 
mesonotal bristles are relatively long; mesopleuron may be darkened 
in upper half; mesopleuron with 2 strong bristles in the middle of 
the posterior margin and 1 or more setae near the bristles; sterno- 
pleuron with 1 strong bristle, a weaker bristle or hair anterior to it, 
and a group of setae anterior to the bristles and extending in about 
2 irregular rows down the middle to the longer hairs between the 
coxae. 
Legs yellow; hind femora sometimes showing a row of about 6 
bristles anterodorsally in the proximal half and usually about as 
many stronger ones arranged irregularly in the anterodorsal part of 
the distal half; hind basitarsus of male longer than the following 
segment. 
Wings with faint yellowish brown tinge; crossveins darkened with 
brown. 
Abdomen yellowish brown with grayish pollinosity. 
Lrenetu.—5.5-6.5 mm. 
Typrs.—The type series consists of 7 males and 2 females collected 
by Dr. Maurice T. James, ‘Pismo Beach, California, Lupine and on 
sand, July 2, 1954.’’ The holotype (male) and allotype have been 
deposited in the State College of Washington; 1 paratype of each 
sex has been deposited in the U.S. National Museum, and the re- 
maining paratypes have been deposited with the holotype and allotype. 
Genus Neoleria Mailoch 
Helomyza Fallén, Meigen, 1830, p. 47 (part).—Zetterstedt, 1838, p. 764 (part) ; 
1847, p. 2430 (part). 
Blephariptera Macquart, 1835, p. 412 (part). 
Blepharoptera Macquart, Loew, 1859, p. 57 (part). 
Leria Robineau-Desvoidy, Pandellé, 1901, p. 344 (part).—Aldrich and Darlington, 
1908, p. 77 (part). 
Neoleria Malloch, 1919, p. 83.—Czerny, 1924, p. 116; 1927a, p. 28.—Collin, 
1943, p. 243. 
Postleria Garrett, 1921, p. 124. 
Specimens of this genus are likely to be confused only with the 
Ficures 56-73.—Structures of the male terminalia of Neoleria, Spanoparea, Morpholerta, 
Acantholeria, Schroederella, Anypotacta, and Scoliocentra. Pile and setulae are omitted 
in figs. 56-65. All structures are shown in lateral view, except those of figs. 67 and 
69, which are in ventral view. Figs. 56-65, epandria and associated structures, X 25: 
56, Neoleria prominens (Becker); 57, N. fuscolinea (Garrett); 58, N. tibialis (Zetterstedt); 
59, Spanoparea walkeri Garrett; 60, S. laffooni, new species; 61, Morpholeria tristis (Loew); 
62, Acantholeria abnormalis Garrett; 63, 4. armipes (Loew); 64, 4. cineraria (Loew); 
65, 4. moscowa Garrett. Figs. 66,67, Schroederella iners (Meigen), X 50: 66, left surstylus; 
67, distal edge. Figs. 68, 69, S. fuscopicea, new species, X 50: 68, left surstylus; 69, 
distal edge of surstylus. Figs. 70-73, left surstyli: 70, Anypotacta aldrichi Garrett; 71, 
A. czernyi Garrett, new species; 72, Scoliocentra fraterna Loew; 73, S. tincta (Walker). 
