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size of those of the upper half. Thorax black with three narrow 

 pruinose stripes, bearing rows of fine hairs, the outer rows curving 

 towards the brownish humeri. Scutellum yellowish, pleura black, 

 grayish pruinose. Abdomen, first, second and third segments 

 yellow, a large dorsal spot on the posterior of the third and the 

 remaining segments velvety black. Legs yellow, all of the tarsi 

 and the tips of the posterior femora and tibiae brownish, posterior 

 metatarsi broadly dilated and truncate, the tarsi short (Fig. 1). 

 Halteres yellow, the knobs brownish. Wings hyaline. Length, 

 4 mm. 



Holotype collected by Dr. J. A. Cushman, on Mt. Passaconaway, 

 N.H., 3,800 feet, September 12, 1912, in the collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. Paratype, Boston, Erie County, 

 N. Y., September 5, 1911 (M. C. VanDuzee), in the author's 

 collection. 



This species resembles A. vanduzeei but is readily separated by 

 its broader and somewhat truncated metatarsi. 



Agathomyia pulchella Johnson. 



Since 1910 this species has been collected at Chester, Mass., 

 August 7, 1912; Bretton Woods, June 28, 1913; Mt. Washington 

 carriage road below the second mile post, elevation about 2,400 

 feet, July 24, 1915, and along the Osgood Trail, near the Glen 

 House, N. H., July 20, 1915. 



Callimyia Meigen. 

 Table of Species 



1. Abdomen entirely velvety black, d^ (N. H., Mass., Ont.) . . . 



velutina sp. nov. 

 Abdomen broadly banded with yellow 2 



2. Abdomen without silvery gray spots, cf (N. M., N. H,, Me.) 



venusta Snow. 

 Abdomen with silvery gray spots 3 



3. Sides of the 1st, 2nd, and 5th segments silvery gray, 9 . . 



venusta Snow. 



Sides of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th and the entire 6th segment 



silvery gray, 9 (N. H.) proxima sp. nov. 



