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spine ; third long and slender ; arista with long hairs above. 

 Mouth small ; clypeus exserted. Cheeks with distinct bristle. 

 Mesonotum strongly convex ; setulae distinctly seriated. Scu- 

 telluni normal. Wings with costa attaining fourth vein. 

 Gcnotxpc. — CcropsUopa nasufa n. sp. 



Ceropsilopa nasuta n. sp. 



Black; second antenna! joint, apical half of fore femora, entire fore 

 and middle tibiae, apical three-fourths of hind tibiae and all tarsi, 

 tawny. Halteres white. Wings and veins yellow. Shining to polished, 

 with violet reflections on face and abdomen. No sculpturing on face. 

 Face strongly keeled on lower part, in profile most prominent at 

 middle. Antennae as long as face, first joint nearly as long as second, 

 second with very short spine, third four times as long as second with 

 very long arista. Length. — 3.75 mm. 



Type. — 9 ; Port of Spain, Trinidad (Ujhelyi). [Hungarian 

 Nat. Museum.] Paratype. — i 9 ; topotypical. 



Hydrellia tibialis n. sp. 



Black; halteres white. Wings hyaline. Shining; frons opaque; face 

 and lunule white; mesonotum subopaque with brownish dust; pleura 

 and pectus opaque. Alesonotum with one pair of dorso-centrals situ- 

 ated near suture. Middle tibiae of male enlarged and thickened, as 

 broad as femora. Length. — i.g mm. 



Type. — S ; Moscow, Idaho, October 9, 1907 (J. M. Aldrich). 

 [A. N. S. P., No. 6141.] Paratype. — i 9 ; topotypical. 



Scatophila variabilis n. sp. 



Black; halteres white. Wings faintly brownish becoming diluted in- 

 feriorly, with clear spots as follows : a large one in submarginal above 

 post. c. V. and one at apex of the cell, two in first posterior beyond post, 

 c. v., a large one each side of post. c. v., and one below apex of fifth 

 vein. Opaque, at most slightly shining, generally brownish- or grayish- 

 dusted. Frons greenish anteriorly. Face and cheeks densely white. Me- 

 sonotum with gray or greenish stripes as follows : two medianly, abbre- 

 viated posteriorly, one laterad of dorso-centrals, abbreviated anterior- 

 ly, and one on each lateral margin. Scutellum grayish with white api- 

 cal spot. Face with two or three bristles each side which are curved 

 dorso-laterally. Length. — 2 mm. 



Type. — S ; Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, California, 

 April II, 1909 (E. T. Cresson, Jr.). [A. N. S. P., No. 6140.] 

 Paratypes. — 2"/ 5 , 30 9 ; topotypical. 



There is a possibility of this being conspecific with the Euro- 

 pean despecta Haliday, but I am unable to compare specimens. 



