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about as broad as long and protruding but a short distance be- 

 yond the margin of the scutellum, with indistinct indications of 

 veins, the costal portion provided with black hair; the distal 

 portion convex in outline; femora stout. 



Brachypteromyia femorata n. sp. (^. — Brownish yellow in color, the ab- 

 domen, save the basal portion, appearing black beneath the dense black 

 hair. Hair everywhere black and usually long; on the top of the head 

 it forms two long rows, beginning on either side of the base of the antennae 

 and convergent posteriorly. On the sides of the mesonotum it is some- 

 what tuft-like in front and behind, and forms a long, dense row on the 

 scutellum; the hair of the narrow portion of the abdomen very abundant 

 and shorter; that of the femora rather sparse. The color of the claws, 

 save the basal tooth, is black. Length 6 mm. 



One specimen, Wyoming, on Macropis melanoleucus. Col- 

 lected by Mr. R. C. Gowell, of the University of Kansas. 



The genus is, as already stated, closely allied to Oxypterum, 

 and it is possible that the difference between the elongated and 

 pointed wings of that genus and the short, functionless, rounded 

 ones of this may not be considered generic. From Lipoptena, 

 the presence of three teeth on each of the claws and the struc- 

 ture of the antennae will at once distinguish the genus. 



I wish to record here the following genera of Diptera which I 

 have recognized from North and Central America, known hitherto 

 only from South America, Europe, India, Africa and the Radak 

 Islands : Miastor Meinert, Camptocladius Wulp, Orthocladms 

 Wulp, Polymera Wiedemann, Mongovia Westwood, Lolphoteles 

 Loew, Analcocerus Loew, Catnpeprosopa Macquart, Damalis 

 Fabricius, Dicramcs Loew, Leioynyza Meigen, Willistoniella 

 Mik. The greater part of them are represented by species yet 

 undescribed. / 



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A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF DOLiCHOPODID/E. 



By William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D. 

 PARHYDROPHORUS no v. gen. 

 Face broad in both sexes, but little narrower in the male than 

 in the female, reaching to the lower corner of the eyes, with a 

 small swelling on either side of its lower third near the orbit. 

 Eyes distinctly pubescent; cheeks narrow. Antennae like those 

 of Hydrophorus: first joint without hairs its dorsal surface, sec- 

 ond joint short and transverse, third joint rounded, with a dis- 



