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those at the apex ; tarsi not furnished with bristly hairs on the upper side 

 of the first joint ; wings hyaline, costal spine shorter than the small cross- 

 vein, third and fourth veins converging toward their apices, penultimate 

 section of the fourth about three-fourths as long as the last section. 



9- — A pair of praeocellar bristles, thorax densely yellowish gray prui- 

 nose and marked with three indistinct black vittse, abdomen oval, the first 

 segment shorter than the remaining four, front tibiae each bearing an ad- 

 ditional bristle, situated below the middle of the anterior side, no blunt 

 pointed bristle at the apex (middle legs wanting), hind tibiae bare on the 

 posterior inner side, bearing two bristles on the median third of the ante- 

 rior inner side, four on the posterior outer side and five on the anterior 

 outer side, otherwise as in the male, except the sexual characters. 



Length 5 mm. 



Two males and one female,, bred February 20, 1901, by Mr. 

 Carroll Fowler, from stems of Lupinus albus, received from 

 Los Angeles, Cal. Type No. 5746, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



^&ax platura Meigen {^fusciceps Zett. , = cilicrura Rond.), 

 but readily distinguished by the long bristles on the under .side 

 of the hind femora. 



A New Species of Dichopetala. 



By James A. G. ^Jiehx. 



The specimen here described as a new species was recently 

 referred by the writer to D. mexicana Brunner, but a more 

 recent examination has convinced him that its afi&nities are 

 closer to D. emarginata Brunner, but still well removed from 

 that. 



Dichopetala pulchra n. sp. 



1900. Dichopetala mexicana Rehn (not of Brunner), Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, xxvii, p. 88. 



Type : female ; Rio Cocula, Guerrero, Mexico, May 12, 

 1898. Collected by Otis W. Barrett. 



Allied to D. emarginata Brunner, with which species it 

 agrees in the form of the subgenital plate, but differing mainly 

 in the color pattern which approaches D. mexicayia. 



Size medium. Head subglobose ; the vertex produced into a spme-like 

 process, which is separated from the front by a narrow diastema ; front, 

 clypeus and labrium glabrous ; eyes small, globose. Pronotum centrally 

 constricted ; the anterior margin slightly arcuate, the posterior truncate ; 



