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the antennae has several stout hairs above, but I hardly think 

 that these differences justify the erection of a new genus. The 

 form of the hypopygium is typical of Xenrigona, and the third 

 and fourth veins are converging, the acrostichal bristles in two 

 rows, the body color partly yellow, and the flattened space can 

 be traced quite readily. 



Paraclius ovatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Figs. 5, 6). 



$ . Length 3 mm. Face covered with silvery white pollen ; the 

 front and occiput dull green with white pollen, which is thicker on the 

 former; antennje reddish-yellow, third joint mostly brownish and 

 somewhat pointed; arista brown, pubescent; cilia of the inferior orbit 

 white. 



Dorsum of the thorax metallic green, only thinly dusted with graj'- 

 ish pollen ; pleurse more blackish with white pollen ; a large black bristle 

 above the fore cox.^. 



Abdomen metallic green with some coppery reflections, white pol- 

 linose on the sides below; hypopygium black (Fig. 5), somewhat shin- 

 ing, its lamellae large, oval, yellowish-white with a narrow black border 

 on the lower and apical edge (Fig. 6), ciliate with black hairs. 



Coxae yellow, the middle pair dai kened on the outer surface ; fore 

 and middle coxae with black hairs and bristles ; hind coxae with a bris- 

 tle on the outer surface ; legs yellow ; the tarsi slightly darkened, mid- 

 dle femora with a preapical bristle ; hind femora with two preapical 

 bristles, one near the upper and one near the lower edge; fore tibiae 

 with a row of small and two large bristles ; middle and hind tibiae with 

 a glabrous strip above between two rows of large bristles ; hind tarsi 

 longer than their tibiae and with the first joint shorter than the second. 



Tegulae and halteres pale yellow, the former with Ijlack cilia. 



Wings grayish hj'aline ; posterior cross-vein about its length from 

 the wing margin measured on the fifth vein. 



Described from two males from Decatur County, Georgia. 

 Taken by Mr. M. D. Leonard. July 16 and 19, 1912. 



Paraclius angulatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 7"). 



^ . Length 4 mm., length of wing 3 mm. Face wholly covered with 

 snow-white pollen, narrowed in the center, being about as wide, a little 

 above the middle, as the width of the third antennal joint; palpi, pro- 

 boscis and antennae black, the latter of moderate size, the third joint 

 somewhat pointed, about as long as broad ; arista with scarcely per- 

 ceptible pubescence ; cilia of the upper orbit black, of the lateral and 

 inferior orbit white; front covered with grayish pollen. 



Thorax, abdomen and coxre dark metallic green, almost blackish- 

 green; pleurae and coxa; dull with whitish pollen; the spot of white 



