I20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



This species is dedicated to my friend, Dr. H. G. Griffith, who 

 assisted me in its capture. 

 Glirysopila modesta Loew, Centur. x, 14, Texas. 



One specimen, Elkhart, Ind. (R. J. Weith). 

 Ghrysopila rotandipennis Loew, Centur. i, 19, Georgia. 



Several specimens of this species were collected in Fairmount 

 Park, Philadelphia, July 14, 1891; Pendleton, N. C. , June 7; 

 Hertford County, North Carolina, June 9; Boykins, Va. , June 

 10, 1895. 



Symphoromyia hirta n. sp. (^. — Length 7 mm. Head black, face black- 

 ish gray, with a silvery white reflection, vertical triangle black, with long 

 black pile; palpi and proboscis black, palpi with long whitish pile, first 

 joint of the antennae black, with long black pile, second and third joints 

 and arista dark brown. Thorax and scutellum bluish gray with long, 

 black pile, dorsum of the thorax with three longitudinal black stripes, 

 which are attenuated posteriorly. Abdomen and venter bluish gray, with 

 long, brownish and yellow pile; femora and tarsi black, tibiae dark brown, 

 tips of the femora yellow ; halteres yellow. Wings hyaline, slightly 

 tinged with brown, stigma and base yellowish. 



9 . — Length 5.5 and 7 mm. Pile throughout much shorter than in the 

 male. Face, front and vertex bluish gray, lighter on the face; front and 

 vertex with minute black hairs, first joint of the antennae brownish, 

 mouth-parts reddish, tips of the palpi and proboscis dark brown; ovi- 

 positor reddish. 



Three specimens. Edge Hijl, Montgomery County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, June 2; Philadelphia, June ri. The species resembles 

 closely the 6*. crassicornis of Europe. 



In recently going over some dipterological literature I find the 

 name Leptogaster longipes given to a Jamaican species (Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. 1894, 273) is preoccupied by Walker for an 

 Asiatic species (Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, 89, 44). I therefore pro- 

 pose in its place the name of Leptogaster clavipes. 



OBITUARY. 



Alois Rogenhofer, Lepidopterist, in Vienna, on January 15, aged 

 65 years; was formerly Custos of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum. 



C. F. WiEPKEN, Ornithologist and Coleopterist, in Oldenburg, on Jan- 

 uary 29. 



Entomological News for April was mailed March 31, 1897. 



