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has the femora brownish and would not run to limata in Krober’s 
table of species. 
Distribution.—The distribution according to two males and five 
females examined is: 
Canada: Lillooet, British Columbia (A. W. Phair), [Canad. coll.]; 
Savary Island, British Columbia, July 12 (R.S.Sherman), [Sherman]: 
Vancouver, British Columbia, July (R. H. Chrystal), (Canad. coll.]. 
Colorado; El Paso County, July 12 (Champlain), [Harrisb. coll.]. 
California: Bear Valley, San Bernardino County, June (F. R. Cole), 
[Cole]; Fallen Leaf Lake, June 28 [Stanford Uniy.]. 
PSILOCEPHALA MELAMPODIA Loew. 
Plate 6, fig. 54; and plate 8, fig. 89. 
1869. Psilocephala melampodia Loew, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 13, p. 9. 
The criginal description is of a female. The mesonotum is black, 
with two narrow vittae and the lateral margins whitish gray polli- 
nose. The antennae are like those of munda Loew. (Fig. 89.) The 
frons is semishining black on the upper part. (Fig. 54). The legs 
are wholly black. 
Type locality.— Illinois. 
Type.—in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 
Distribution.—Three females were examined from the following 
localities: Boston, Massachusetts, June 27 (Allston), [B. S. N. H.]; 
Black Mountains, North Carolina, May [Amer Mus.]. 
PSILOCEPHALA VARIEGATA Loew. 
1869. Psilocephala variegata Loew, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 13, p. 170, male 
only. 
Ty pe locality.—‘* Canada.”’ 
Type.—tIn the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 
The following notes are made from specimens examined by the 
writer: 
Male.—The species seems unusually inclined to become greasy. 
The pile of the abdomen is not very dense, rather short, reclinate, 
white at the base, beyond the second segment yellowish, distinctly 
yellow on the hypopygium. The male genitalia are more nearly 
allied to P. munda in form than to any other species and are the 
same in the typical form as in the subspecies figured. The male 
specimen examined was 9 mm. in length. 
Female.—Length 8.5 to 10.6 mm. Almost entirely whitish gray 
pollinose. Frons very broad, flattened, whitish gray pollinose, with 
a shallow impression in the central portion, in which some minute 
yellowish tomentumlike pile is visible; a few short black pile on the 
upper portion of the frons. Bristles of the occiput mixed yellow 
