oe PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, VoL. 62. 
Male.—Length 7.5mm. Ocellar tubercle gray pollinose. Anten- 
nae brownish yellow, the first joint about as long as the third (see 
fig. 32), the style and bristles short. Lower part of the head with 
whitish pile. There are indications of a median colored crossband 
on the eye, probably quite apparent in life. 
Pile of mesonotum short and yellowish. On each side, over the 
humeri, a velvety brown spot; mesonotum largely gray pollinose. 
Scutellum velvety black, with three or four short black marginal 
bristles, a few black pile on the margin (the rest may be rubbed off). 
Halteres yellowish brown. 
Abdomen not flattened at the tip; some black pile below on the 
fourth segment, all the pile of the fifth and sixth black and rather 
dense; pile on the basal segments whitish. Genitalia reddish yellow, 
with reddish yellow pile, the lower claspers slightly longer than the 
upper (see fig. 33). In the specimen examined the anterior legs are 
entirely yellowish brown. 
Female.—Length 9mm. Closely resembles the male. Frons nar- 
tow, with the usual markings of the genus. (Fig. 24.) Some 
blackish pile on the oral margin below and on the proboscis. Meso- 
notum with two narrew shining black vittae, just inside the humeral 
brown spots. Scutellum as in the male, with four marginal bristles. 
Genital segment reddish yellow, the rest of the abdomen black; 
second segment with a white posterior border; first segment gray 
pollinose, as are sides and posterior margin of second and most of 
third and fourth, the rest shining blackish brown, with short erect 
black pile. Wings largely infuscated. (Fig. 23.) 
EPOMYIA BELLA, new species. 
Plate 4, figs. 21, 27, and 31. 
Female.—Length 9.5 mm. Head black, with more or less whitish 
pollen which extends across the frons above the antennae (fig. 21); 
upper part of frons and ocellar tubercle shining and bare. Face and 
occiput whitish pollinose, the bristles of the occiput short and black; 
proboscis and palpi brown, short black pilose. The antennae about 
as long as the head, yellowish, the third joint about as long as the 
first, ending bluntly, and brownish yellow in color; short black hairs 
on first two antennal joints and base of third. (Fig. 31.) 
Thorax black, gray pollinose (markings in the type obscured by 
grease, if present), with sparse yellowish, tomentumlike pile. Scutel- 
lum velvety blackish brown and bearing two short marginal bristles, 
the base narrowly gray pollinose. Pteropleura partly reddish in 
ground color, the remainder of pleura black, gray pollinose. Halteres 
yellowish. 
