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Bibiocephala kelloggi, new species. 



Male, eyes narrowly separated. General color blackish brown, 

 pruinose, reflecting yellowish, brown or silvery. Branch of 

 Ro joining R near its tip. Head, occiput, front and epistoma 

 grayish black, with long black pilosity all over ; eyes divided 

 about midway, and much long black pilosity; antennae dark 

 brown, base of segment 3 paler. Thoracic dorsum blackish, a 

 thin cephalic yellowish line to the suture, an oblong spot behind 

 the tubercular pits yellowish, much long black villosity scat- 

 tered all over. Scutellum dark brown ; mid basal portion 

 yellow-black, pilose all over. Pleura gray-black, silvery 

 pruinose, the front half with long black thin hairs, hind half 

 bare. Abdomen, blackish, or according to reflection, golden 

 yellow brown. Coxae, trochanters, and femoral base brown, 

 the rest dark; tibial spurs on mid and hind legs, fore femora 

 and tarsi 1 incrassate. Wings of normal pattern, but branch 

 of Rn ending near the tip of R. 



Monotype, male, Cranbrook, British Columbia, July 13, 1921, 

 in the city (C. Garrett). 



Just how this specimen got here is a puzzle, contrary to the 

 usual family habits. The region is more or less flat, there are 

 no swift streams, no rocky streams, and the altitude is 2,950 

 feet. Possibly it may have arrived on the train from the Crow's 

 Nest direction. It is named after Dr. V. L. Kellogg, 



A MERISTIC VARIATION 



(Diptera) 



In examining a number of Leria serrata taken in Cranbrook, 

 British Columbia, on June 6, 1921, I was much surprised to 

 iind a female with two complete scutella, each with the usual 

 two pairs of bristles. The second scutellum is slightly smaller 

 than is usual and both have struggled for the center of the 

 thorax, the smaller one being a little on one side. There is but 

 one postorbital bristle on one side where two are usual ; other- 

 wise the insect seems normal. 



C. B. D. Garrktt. 



