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Miscophas americanns n. sp. 



$ . — Black; face, cheeks and thorax covered with silvery pile, 

 very dense on the clypeus and sides of the thorax; head wider 

 than the thorax, very finely and closely punctured, a distinct lon- 

 gitudinal impressed line, extending from lower ocellus almost to 

 base of clypeus; clypeus divided into three parts, the latter 

 rounded in front, the central part largest; thorax very finely 

 punctured; the tegulae slightly brownish, impunctured; meta- 

 thorax with slightly heavier punctures, with a well defined, raised, 

 central line extending from base to apex; legs sparsely covered 

 with silvery pile, more dense on the tarsi; wings hyaline, the an- 

 terior pair with a darker apical margin iridescent; marginal cell 

 rounded beneath, acuminate at tip, the second recurrent nervure 

 received by the second submarginal cell near its apex; abdomen 

 smooth and shining, very finely punctured, the apical margins 

 of the first to fourth segment above with silvery pile, more dense 

 laterally, beneath, the second and third segments with sparse, 

 sericeous pile, more obvious on the posterior margins, venter 

 with a few long, black hairs. Length .18 inch. 



One specimen. Camden County, N. J., July 29, 1890. 



This is the first species of this genus known to occur in North 

 America, and should be placed in the Larridae, after the genus 

 Pison. It can be distinguished by possessing only two submar- 

 ginal cells. 



Photopsis Cressoni n. sp. 



% . — Black; clothed with long, erect, pale hair; head finely 

 punctured; thorax distinctly punctured, much more strongly and 

 deeper on the dorsulum and scutellum; metathorax with very 

 large, deep punctures; subtruncate behind; wings fuscous, nearly 

 hyaline at base, iridescent in certain lights, first recurrent nervure 

 received by the second submarginal cell, between its base and 

 middle, subcostal nervure incurved, so that it touches the costal 

 nervure; nervures and stigma black, the latter and the costal and 

 subcostal nervures very much so; abdomen shining, finely, but 

 not closely punctured, the second segment contracted at apex, 

 beneath the second segment is deeply punctured, the third to 

 seventh ventral segments almost entirely smooth, polished. 

 Length .25 inch. 



One specimen, Camden County, N. J., Sept. 9, 1890. 



