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14. Fore tibiae entirely bUck . . obtcun 

 Fore tibiae moftly yellow 15 



15. Third antennal joint broadest before middle, tapering api- 



cally : larger (3.S mm.) specie* faaciola 



Third joint broadest beyond middle, not tapering: smaller 

 (1.5 mm.) species marginalis 



FModoctroo MtOM sp. nov. 



it Black; halteres brown and yellow; hind m u^iat of a b d omia i l 

 scgBcaU ydlow. Pile loof and ycOowish. 



SUninf ; abdomen opake. Proas and face sflvery, skies of latter oo 

 mcsal margin thickly beset with kMg bladi bristles, abo tinrfkr bristles 

 on first antenna! joint and on po s terior orbits. 



Robott species. Proboeds twice as kmf as bead; palpi ooe-fottrth 

 as long. First antennal joint nearly as kmg as third ; thfati as long as 

 first and second, two and one-half times as long as broad with great- 

 est width at middle. Second vein ending opposite middle of second 

 submarginal; Utter broad apicaOy doe to the forward curving of the 

 last third of the anterior branch of third vein, to that the length of the 

 cdl b hardly twice as kmg as Its greatest width. SflsaO c v. beyond 

 middle of discal cell; post c. v. obUqnc and straigbt 



9 . Destitute of the bbck bristles on the head, hattaraa entirely yel- 

 low ; second sabmarginal cdl longer and the post c v. sinnate. Length, 

 o • 9. 5^ mm. 



Holotypt — j, Tahoe, California, August ii, 1905. Type 

 No. 6080. 



Allotype^ 9 .Topotypfc. 



These specimens have been in alcohol and the pile is matted. 

 Normally, there may be considerable amount of pruinose coat- 

 ing present which is not apparent on the type specimens. 



In venation this species is similar to the typical Geron but 

 there is no attenuation in the third antennal joint 



Pseudogeron capax. 



189a. GfTon cupa* Coquillett, Can. Ent., xxiv. ia6. 



Described from specimens of both sexes from Orange 

 County,* California. 



I have examined a male (cotype) and a female from Los 

 Angeles Cotmty, California; a male labeled "Cala" and an- 

 other male bearing label "39." I have not seen the specimens 

 that are responsible for the New Jersey record. 



* Orange Coon^ is a part of the original Los Angdes County. 



