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of bristles situated on disc beyond middle, a smaller pair proximad ot 

 these, and a very small pair at apex. Fore tibiae with 2 bristles, one on the 

 posterior surface near middle and another on anterior surface nearer to 

 apex ; mid tibiae with 5 bristles, 2 on anterior, 2 on posterior, and i on 

 antero-ventral surface, the upper bristles weakest; hind tibiae with 6 bris- 

 tles, I antero-ventral, i anterior, 2 anterb-dorsal, and 2 postero-dorsal. 

 Type locality. White Heath, 111., May 28 and 30, 1916. 



I found this species rather scarce amongst undergrowth in 

 a wood along the bank of the Sangamon River. 



A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF ANTHOMYIID.^ 

 (DIPTERA). 



By J. R. Malloch, Urbana, 111. 



The genus described herewith is readily separated from any 

 other in the family except Proboscimyia and Dolichoglossa by 

 the remarkably slender, elongate proboscis. 



The genus Proboscimyia was described by Bigot in 1883.* In 

 i885t he redescribed, or rather more fully described, the same 

 genus and species, altering the generic name to Proboscidomyia, 

 , the correct form, in my opinion. I retain the original form of the 

 name. In neither description is there any mention made of the 

 character of hairing of the arista, but as the genus is compared 

 with Anthomyia we may assume that it was either short-haired 

 or pubescent. 



In 1897 Stein described Dolichoglossa^ and compared it with 

 Hamw^omyia and Hylephila. No mention is made of Pro- 

 hoscim^yia, and judging from the descriptions of the two genera I 

 consider that there is but little doubt they are synonymous. 



The present genus differs from the foregoing in having the 

 arista extremely long-haired. The species differs also in having 

 the legs yellow. 



Neohylemyia gen. nov. Male. — Eyes narrowly separated ; f rons slightly 

 protruded anteriorly; antennae as in Hylemyia; arista globose at base, very 



* Bull. Ent Soc. France, p. xxx. 



t Ann. Ent. Soc. France, p. 266. 



t Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 42, p. 230. 



