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arista, more compressed third antennal joint, and almost bare para- 

 facials. The antennae are inserted on eye middle. 



M. michiganensis Townsend is a large northern form, distinct 

 from trifasciata or disjuncta in its red face and cheeks, third anten- 

 nal joint hardly longer than second, facial profile more flattened, sil- 

 very pollen of abdominal segments general and not restricted into 

 basal fasciae. 



Tribe Neophytoini 



NEOPHYTO, gen. nov. 



The genus is like Mcgaprosopus in the formation of the facial 

 plate, epistoma, and facial ridges, but the vibrissas are distinct from 

 the peristomal bristles below them, and the parafacials have an 

 oblique well-marked row of thinly set bristles (not thickly placed as 

 in Macronychid) . Frontal bristles not strong. Peristomalia quite 

 closely approximated. Cheeks more than one-half as wide as eye 

 height, sometimes appearing almost as wide in female. Front prom- 

 inent, facial profile strongly receding and slightly convex. Antennae 

 inserted distinctly below middle of eyes. Apical cell closed in mar- 

 gin considerably before wing tip ; fourth vein bent at angle, without 

 stump but with slight wrinkle, hind crossvein in middle between 

 small and apical crossveins. Male without, female with two middle 

 fronto-orbital bristles. Type, Phyto sctosa Coquillett. 



Neophyto anomala, sp. nov. 



Syn. Phyto clesidcs Coquillett (non Walker). 



Length, 6 to 8 mm. Grayish cinereous. Facial plate narrow, 

 oval, acute below, the vibrissal angles but little more approximated 

 than the peristomalia below them, the facial profile strongly convex. 

 Face, parafacials and parafrontals silvery ; palpi, cheeks, frontalia 

 and antennae light reddish brown, third antennal joint brown. An- 

 tennae very short, third joint no longer than second, second about 

 three times as long as the very short first joint. Male front much 

 narrower than eyes, female front wider than eyes. Male cheeks 

 two-thirds eye height in width, female cheeks fully equal to eye 

 height. Mesoscutum cinereous, with three dusky vittae in male, 

 almost obsolete in female. Abdomen dusky cinereous, with anterior 

 portions of second and third segments and most of anal segment 

 silvery-cinereous. In the female especially the dusky portion is 

 more variable, appearing in some only on narrow hind margins of 

 second and third segments. Discal macrochaetae on all the segments 

 except the first. Male abdomen long-subconical, female abdomen 



