INSECUTOR INSCITI^ M^NSTRUUS 91 



Length of male 8.5 mm. (average of four) ; of female, 

 8.7 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 23940, U. S. Nat. Mus., labeled "Mass." 

 and "out in small side black box, May 5, 1895." It had been 

 placed by Townsend in his series of limacodis. Paratype 

 males: one "on Tortricidia flexuosa, N. Y." (H. G. Dyar) ; 

 one White Mountains, New Hampshire (Morrison), labeled 

 "Macquartia sp." by Brauer and Bergenstamm; one, Canton, 

 North Carolina (Sherman). One female supposed to belong 

 here is from Lyme, Connecticut. 



Pseudeuantha rubripes, new species. 



Male. Head and thorax black, abdomen and legs except 

 tarsi reddish-yellow, abdomen, however, with a wedge-shaped 

 black dorsal stripe which runs to a point on the fourth seg- 

 ment. 



Head shaped as in pristis; antennae reddish nearly to the 

 middle of the third joint, arista very slightly pubescent near 

 base ; palpi yellow. Front in the single specimen 0.14 as wide 

 as head; frontal stripe at narrowest slightly wider than para- 

 frontal. Thorax with changeable cinererous pollen above, the 

 sides more uniform ; pleurae with only pale hairs, the bristles 

 black ; stenopleurals two, stout. Tarsi black, claws and pul- 

 villi decidedly shorter than in pristis. Genital segments not 

 quite so large as in pristis, but the fifth sternite with large 

 lobes as in that species. Second and third abdominal tergites 

 with a single pair of stout discals, the first and second under- 

 neath with long pale hairs near the median line, as in other 

 species. Wings hyaline, the fourth vein with a short append- 

 age at the bend in the described specimen. 



Length 9.6 mm. 



Type.—Mz\e, No. 23941, U. S. Nat. Mus.; from Miami, 

 Florida, October 29 (Mrs. C. H. T. Townsend, collector). 



Pseudeuantha johnsoni Townsend. 



Townsend, Canad. Ent., xxiv, 1892, 81, female (as male) (Mac- 

 quartia) . — Pennsylvania. 



Coquillett, Revis. Tachin., 1897, p. 64 {Macquartia; misidentified, 

 the specimen later described by Townsend as Xarvthocera 



