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of the wing; the distance from the posterior cross-vein to the angle is not 

 more than a fourth or a fifth of the length of the vein between the cross- 

 veins; angle with a stump of a vein. 



9. — In the female the face is less retreating, the sides are broader, the 

 fovea narrower, the vibrissae are situated a little distance above the oral 

 margin, the eyes are more sparsely pilose, and the front tarsi are flattened. 

 The two orbital bristles are present, as in the male. The antennae reach 

 a little below the middle of the face; the third joint is four or five times 

 the length of the second joint, of nearly equal width throughout, and 

 obtusely pointed at the tip. In some specimens the third antennal joint 

 shows a slight projection near the proximal end in front, as though corre- 

 sponding to a rudiment of the elongated process of the male. The first 

 two joints of the arista are shorter than in the'male, and of nearly equal 

 length. 



Dichocera lyrata n. sp. c? $ . — Black; the sides of the front and face, and 

 the narrow inferior orbits gray pollinose, but variable in different reflec- 

 tions, the shining black ground color showing through. Frontal stripe 

 broad, reddish or brownish; cheeks black, not shining, in some reflections 

 showing a brownish pruinosity; clothed with black hairs; near the front 

 part with a vertical row of bristles not far from the facial margin. An- 

 tennae wholly light reddish yellow. Palpi reddish yellow; occiput gray 

 pollinose, clothed with abundant light gray hair. Mesonotum gray polli- 

 nose, but variable in different reflections, leaving four distinct, shining 

 black stripes. Scutellum gray pollinose, variable, the apex slightly red- 

 dish; its margins with four long bristles. Abdomen shining black, the 

 anterior part of each segment broadly gray pollinose, but very variable 

 in different reflections; distal part of the fourth segment, sometimes nearly 

 all of it and the hypopygium, yellowish red. Tegulae nearly white. Wings 

 grayish hyaline. Legs wholly black, the middle and hind tibiae with stout, 

 irregular bristles on the outer side. Length 9-10 mm. 



Nineteen specimens (4 S , 15?), Idaho, Prof. J. M. Aldrich, 

 June and November. 



OBITUARY. 



Felix Lynch Arribalzaga, the Argentine dipterologist, died on April 

 10, 1894. 



Ed. G. Honrath, on April 19, 1894, in Gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin. 

 Born in Coblenz, Aug. 11, 1837, and was a well-known Lepidopterist. 



Entomological News for December, 1894, was mailed December i, 1894. 



