1916] Va7i Duzee — The Genus Asyndetus 91 



Described from six males and five females taken at Galveston, 

 Texas, May, by F. H. Snow; and Bill \Yilliams Fork, Arizona, 

 August. Type in the Kansas University collection. 



One of the males from Arizona is steel-blue and the bristles of 

 the fore tibiae are scarcely visable. 



This species is very much like snytormoides Wheeler, but is 

 smaller, the third joint of the antennae are more rounded below 

 and smaller, and the fore feet are less hairy. 



Asyndetus nigripes sp. nov. 



Male: Length, 3.2 mm. Face and front green; face with thin 

 white pollen and narrower than the front ; palpi brown ; proboscis 

 black; antennae (Fig. 3) black, third joint more brownish, rather 

 large, about twice as long as wide, pointed, somewhat conical in 

 outline; arista dorsal; lateral and inferior orbital cilia pale end- 

 ing in a few longer hairs on each side of the oral opening. Thorax 

 dark green, shining, with but little pollen; base of abdomen green, 

 the last three segments more coppery, there are several bristles 

 extending somewhat upward and backward in the described speci- 

 men (their position may not be natural). Coxae and legs black; 

 femora with green reflections; puhilli scarcely enlarged, white; all 

 tarsi about the length of their tibiae. Tegulae, their cilia and the 

 halteres pale yellow. Wings grayish hyaline; veins black; costa 

 stout as far as the tip of the third ^■ein where it ends; third vein 

 nearly parallel with the second vein, ending far before the tip of 

 the wing; the delicate fourth vein with only a slight bend, ending 

 just back of the apex of the wing; cross- vein close to the root of the 

 wing. 



Female: Agrees with the male in general characters, but the 

 third antennal joint is small, scarcely as long as wide, rounded at 

 tip. 



Described from one male and one female taken at Sjjringdale, 

 Los Angeles Co., Cal., April 29, on a rose bush; and a female from 

 San Diego, Cal., May 1. 



Asyndetus latus sp. nov. 

 Male: Length, 3.5 mm. Face and front thickly covered with 

 silvery pollen so as to conceal the ground color, very wide and with 

 parallel sides; palpi and proboscis black, the former with stiff 



