52 THOMxVS SxVY FOUNDATION 



a row of appressed black hairs at base and another in 

 middle ( sixth sternite coalesced with Hi). 



Length 6^^-8l/o mm. 



Thirteen males and three females; se^en males 

 are from LaFayette, Ind., collected by the anthor; 

 two males and two females Opelousas, La., in the 

 Hough collection; one male Tifton, Ga., also in the 

 Hough collection; one male each from Georgesville 

 and Kent, Ohio, in Professor Hine's collection; one 

 male Florida (C. W. Johnson) ; the third female is 

 in the Hough collection, collected in Wisconsin by 

 Professor Wm. M. Wheeler. 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20,491, U. S. X. M., 

 from LaFaj^ette, Ind. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20491, U. S. X. M.. 

 from Opelousas, La. 



NOTOOH^TA New Genus. 



{vuiTos, back; xcitri?, bristle) 



Eyes bare; front not ^ery prominent, narrow in 

 male; upper frontals strong, several of the upper 

 pair reclinate in a decreasing degree, the rows mod- 

 erately divergent below and reaching almost to the 

 middle of the second antennal joint; third antennal 

 joint long, arista long and with very long plumosity 

 almost to its tip ; vibrisste at oral margin, not approx- 

 imated ; hairs of paraf acials minute or wanting ; palpi 

 normal; proboscis short, fleshy; back of head nearly 

 flat. 



Thorax witli uncommonly long bristles, as fol- 

 lows: Ps dc 2 (the anterior not much more than half 

 way to the suture, usually a coarse hair close in front 

 of it) ; ant dc 2 large; ant acr 0; prsc 1 small; hum 2; 

 npl 2; inthum 1 ; prsut 1 large; pa 2; inta 2 or 1 (the 

 anterior small or absent) ; supa 3 (the middle one 

 large) ; stpl 3; scutellum with 3 or 4 marginals (only 

 the first and last large), one small apical, and some- 

 times a minute subapical. 



