128 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Pleura black, grayish. Propleura one bristle; mesopleura 

 bare except five or six hairs below the disk ; pteropleura bare ; 

 sternopleura one bristle, in front of which are a few scattered 

 hairs to the middle of the top edge, then down the center to 

 between the coxae, where there are many bristles. 



Abdomen dark brown or approaching black, with very few 

 hairs and long or median apical bristles on most segments. 

 Hypopygium polished or shiny and type of Amoehaleria 

 claspers. 



Legs dark brown, femora blacker; wings hyaline; spines 

 few, usually very short. 



Described from seven specimens, two males, five females, 

 taken in April, May and October at Cranbrook, British Co- 

 lumbia. 



Type male, allotype female. 



Pseudoleria, new genus (from the Greek pseudos, "false" 



Leria). 



Foremost fronto-orbital usually present, small and hair-like, 

 about one-fifth the length of the hind one, but often absent. 

 No prosternal bristles ; one humeral ; four dorso-central. Head 

 deeper than long, eyes small, arista rather long. Mesopleura 

 bare, except one or two hairs below the disk, pteropleura with 

 four to twelve longish hairs and sometimes a bristle. 



Genotype, P. pectinata Loew. 



Pseudoleria pectinerata, new species. 



Type female. Foremost fronto-orbital missing or hair-like ; 

 no prosternal bristle, one humeral, four dorso-centrals. 



Length about 5 mm. Head brownish, antennas to ocelli red- 

 yellow ; face and cheeks pale brown. One long strong vi- 

 brissa, below which are two rows of short even sized hairs to 

 the lower corner. Antennae dark red-brown, arista rather 

 long, microscopically pubescent. 



Thorax pale brown with or without a thin median red-brown 

 stripe almost full length ; dorso-centrals rising from round 

 spots of the same color. Dorsum with regular but short thick 

 hairs. 



