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borders, situated slightly below a line drawn through center of eyes, some- 

 what closer to each other than to eyes ; eyes brown, extending beyond sides 

 of pronot'um. 



Pronotum green, densely punctate, very slightly pubescent, ascending 

 nearly straight above head, convex just before suprahumerals, feebly arcu- 

 ate in middle, dorsum somewhat flattened, semicircular impression very 

 faint; median carina percurrent; humeral horns long and acute, with 

 brown and black markings underneath, extending outward and backward; 

 front' of pronotum having long, transverse smooth irregularly-shaped areas 

 dorsomesad of eyes, these areas yellow and shining ; posterior process long, 

 slender, sharp, much decurved, reaching to tip of abdomen in females 

 and beyond in males, with brown markings. 



Wings smoky, lightly punctate at base, veins brownish. Under surface 

 of body yellow; last ventral segment of female very deeply and roundly 

 notched, base of notch not as broad as constans Walk. Ovipositor ex- 

 tending beyond abdomen in a long narrow process. Plates of male broad 

 at' base and tapering to a sharp point, very long, extending beyond pygo- 

 f ers, tipped with black. Legs yellow, with white hairs ; tarsi and claws 

 somewhat ferruginous. 



Described from five ferriales and six males in the collection of the senior 

 author, collected by him at Charleston, Mo., June 19, 1916. Type, allotype 

 and three paratypes deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 



References necessary for study in this group : 

 Fairmaire — Rev. Memb., pp. 284, 289, 1846. 



Fitch — Ceresa brevicornis, 3d Rep. Ins. N. Y., pp. 177, 335, 451, 1856. 

 Funkhouser — Ceresa occidentalis, Ent. News, Vol. XXVI, p. 100, 191 5. 

 Marlatt — Buffalo Tree-Hopper, Bur. Ent. Cir. 23, Sd Ser., 1897. 

 Say — Long's Exped. App., p. 299, 1824. 



Stal — Ceresa albido-sparsa, Eug. Resa Omk. Jord. Hem., pp. 86, 283, 1856. 



Walker — Ceresa hrevis. List of Hom. B. M., pp. 528, 563, 185 1. 



Van Duzee — List of Hem. taken by W. J. Palmer about Quinze Lake, P. 



Que. in 1907. Can. Ent, Vol. LX, p. 112, 1908. Studies in N. A. Mem. 



Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., 1908, Vol. IX, pp. 35, 2>^. Florida Hemiptera 



Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., Vol. IX, p. 205, 1909. 



A NEW GENUS OF ANTHOMYIID^ (DIPTERA). 



By J; R. Malloch, Urbana, 111. 



The genus herewith described belongs to the subfamily An- 

 thomyiinee though in some respects it resembles Phaoniinse. It 

 differs from all other genera of the family known to me in having 

 a single long bristle near the upper margin of the pteropleura just 



