April, I92I Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomolagical Society 53 



A NEW GENUS OF ANTHOMYIID.E (DIPTERA). 



By J. R. Malloch, Urbana, 111. 



Kingia gen. n. 



Generic Caracters. — Female. Eyes bare, separated by 

 one third of the head-width ; anterior supraorbital bristle 

 directed forward ; interf rontalia with a pair of cruciate 

 bristles ; arista nearly bare ; parafacial wide ; f rons produced 

 at base of antennae ; mouth-margin produced rather acutely, 

 extending beyond vertical line of base of antennae. Pro- 

 pleura with setulose hairs in front of spiracle as in An- 

 thomyia. Lower calyptra subequal to upper. Fore tarsi 

 with one or more of the terminal segments dilated; hind 

 tibia ' with at least three anterodorsal and posterodorsal 

 bristles. 

 Genotype, Hylemyia qmntilis Malloch. 



I have before me a male which is congeneric with the above 

 and which may be conspecific with it, but of this I am not abso- 

 lutely certain. It has the following characters : Narrowest part 

 of f rons wider than distance across posterior ocelli ; all orbital 

 bristles incurved ; interf rontalia wnth a pair of fine cruciate 

 bristles. Fore tarsus not dilated, basal segment with a conspicu- 

 ous blunt bristle at base on posteroventral surface ; hind tibia with 

 tw'o series of stiff erect short hairs, one posterior and the other 

 posteroventral ; hind tarsus with a conspicuous blunt bristle near 

 base on ventral surface, which is directed straight downward. 

 Otherwise as female. 



The presence of hairs on the propleura separates this genus 

 from all Anthomyiinae except Anthomyia Meigen and Erenio- 

 myioides Malloch. From the former it may be separated by the 

 shape of the head, and dilated fore tarsi in the female, and the 

 peculiar basal bristles on fore and hind tarsi in the male. From 

 Ercmomyiodes it may be separated by the bare hypopleura and 

 pteropleura. 



The type was from Godbout, Quebec, and the male referred to 

 is from Lakehurst, N. J. (C. W. Johnson). 



I have named this genus in honor of my old friend and col- 

 league. Prof. J. J. F. X. King, of Glasgow, Scotland. 



