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pleura and another above the middle coxa on the pteropleura. Plumula 

 and tegulae white, the latter with yellowish pile, halteres yellow. 



Abdomen (Plate XVI, Fig. C) about one-fifth longer, and the second 

 and third segments broader, than the thorax, broadest at end of second 

 segment; black, moderately shining, rather strongly arched, with mod- 

 erate pile, which is black on the posterior margin of the second and on 

 the disk of the third and fourth segments, elsewhere yellowish, longer 

 on the venter, on the genitalia and at the sides of the second segment 

 where it is also denser, but in no place obscuring the ground color. An 

 mterrupted yellow fascia on the anterior half of the second segment 

 v.hich takes the form of two narrow, elongate, slightly oblique spots, a 

 little less than one-fourth the width of the segment and attenuated 

 somewhat toward either end ; interrupted by more than twice their 

 width and separated from the lateral margin by one-half more than 

 their width. The black of the segment contiguous to these spots is 

 opaque. Elsewhere the abdomen is immaculate except for a slight mar- 

 gin of yellow on some of the genital plates posterior to the fourth seg- 

 ment. Venter with yellow as follows : posterior angles and narrow 

 posterior margin of first segment, the second segment except a median 

 black spot, and a stripe on the posterior margin of the third segment. 

 .Elsewhere, including the genitalia, black, shining. 



Wings (Plate XVI, Fig. A) on the costal third brownish, clouded, 

 occupying most of the costal, subcostal and marginal cells. Veins 

 brownish throughout. Anterior cross-vein four-ninths the distance 

 from base of discal cell, the third longitudinal vein broadly but con- 

 siderably bent into the first posterior cell, the latter pediform. 



All the femora slightly thickened, hind pair very slightly curved; in- 

 cluding the coxae, reddish to blackish brown, the tips yellow. Tibiae 

 yellowish, the anterior ones slightly, the hind pair much infuscated in 

 the middle. Tarsi yellow, the last two joints brownish. Pile chiefly 

 pale yellow, longer on the femora. 



Described from two males : The type collected by the writer 

 at Raleigh, North Carolina, in mid-April, 1914, about blossom- 

 ing pear; in the author's collection. Paratype (without head) 

 collected by Mr. Franklin Sherman, Jr., at Raleigh, North 

 Carolina, in late March, 1908; in the collection of the North 

 Carolina Department of Agriculture. 



Sphaerophoria cleoae new species (Plate XVI, figs. E, F). 



$ . Length 8 mm. Vertex deep blue black, moderately shining. The 

 black encroaches to a variable extent on the Irons, particularly as a 

 median stripe narrowing toward, and not reaching more than half-way 

 to, the base of the antennae, or sometimes reaching nearly to the latter 



