340 PROCEEDINUS OF THE NATIONAL MV8EI M. 



Family SAPllOMYZIDAE. 



SAPROMYZA SEXPUNCTATA Meigen. 

 Sapromii'a se.ipunct<ita Meickn, Sys. Hesch. Eur. Zweif. lus., 182H, V, p. 2(52. 



Three specimens (No. 70-f), agreeiug' well with the descriptions of 

 this European species. 



SAPROMYZA EUARESTA, new species. 



Head yellow, the center of the occiput, two narrowly separated vit- 

 tae on the front, two obli(pie vittae extending from the antennae to 

 tiie occiput, crossing the cheeks, also a transverse spot above the 

 middle of the anterior edge of the oral margin, dark brown; antennae 

 yellow, the third joint brown in the middle, oval, only slightly longer 

 than broad, arista brown, pubescent; palpi and middle of proboscis 

 yellowish brown. Thorax, including the pleura, yellowish, opaque, 

 thinly gray pruinose, marked with irregular brown, not pruinose, spots 

 and dots; hairs and bristles black; scutelluni brown, a yellow vitta on 

 either side of the middle, bearing four niacrochaetae; metanotum 

 brownish-yellow. xVbdomen opa(iue, yellow, segments tw.i to five or 

 six each marked with a posterior brown fascia extended forward in 

 the middle and near the sides, crossing the segments, a marginal row 

 of macrochaetae on segments two to six. Coxae and femora brown, 

 apices of femora and the whole of tlie tibiae and tarsi yellow. Wings 

 dark brown, marked with numerous whitish-hyaline spots and drops; 

 costal cell whitish-hyaline, crossed near the middle by a brown spot; 

 space between apices of auxiliary and lirst vein wholly brown ; between 

 tirst and second veins with four or five whitish spots; two in extreme 

 apices of the submarginal and first posterior cells; from four to six in 

 the discal, the* ends of this cell brown; small crossvein noticeably 

 before the middle of the discal cell: all veins bare. Halteres yellow. 

 Length, 3.5 mm. Three specimens (No. 705). 



Type.— 1^0. 4015, U.S.N.M. 



Family AGEOMYZIDAE. 



CRYPTOCHAETUM GRANDICORNE Rondani. 



Cryptochaetum graudiconw Kondani, 8jTec. Itiil. Ord. Dipt., Agrom., 1875, p. 7. 



Eighteen specimens (No. 745), agreeing well with si)ecimens from 

 Italy in the U. S. National Museum. 



Family DROSOPHILIDAE. 



DROSOPHILA OBSCURA Fallen. 

 Drosophila ohscura Fallen, Dipt. Suec, Geoinyz., 1828, p. 6. 



Three specimens (No. 746), agreeing well with the descriptions of 

 this European species. 



