WILLISTON. DIPTERA BRASILIANA. Dal 
hyaline; the distal portion from the tip of the first vein obliquely 
across to the back of the fourth vein brown; posterior cross-vein less 
deeply clouded; termination of the first vein before the anterior 
cross-vein; ultimate section of the fourth vein about twice the 
length of the penultimate section. Length 5 mm. 
Six specimens, Chapada. A number of other specimens from the 
Same locality differ as follows: Color light yellow; front with two 
dark brown stripes, not enlarged into a spot below. Face with a 
small V-shaped brown spot below. Mesonotum with six, narrow, 
light brownish stripes, the four in the middle more approximated; 
just outside them, and between them and the lateral stripe, an in- 
complete stripe back of the suture. Spots on the scutellum smal- 
er. Legs yellow, front femora on the outer and distal part, hind 
femora to the immediate tip, and the distal joints of all the tarsi 
brown or brownish, color of the wings much less intense, being 
brown only on the outer part of the costa. 
Sapromyza exul Williston, Dipt. St, Vincent. 
A single specimen from Rio de Janeiro. 
Sapromyza bipunctata Say, Compl, Wr. 367-Mexico, 
A specimen from Rio de Janerio may be of this species. The 
head is yellow, including the antenne. The arista is bare. The 
abdomen is of a uniform brownish color, perhaps the effect of des- 
Sication. The wings have a broad brown costal border, extending 
around the tip to beyond the fourth vein; a small projection from it 
extends across the middle of last section of the third vein. There 
Is a narrow, dark brown cloud on each cross-vein. 
Sapromyza lupulinoides, n. sp. 
Male. Front yellowish; on the lowermost part a narrow trans- 
verse band light yellow, above which there is a black band of a lit- 
tle greater width, the upper margin of which is not sharply defined; 
a small black spot on either side of the root of the antenna. An- 
tenn yellow; third joint about three times as long as wide; arista 
short plumose, or rather, long pubescent. Face light greyish yel- 
low, with a blackish spot in the middle below. Thorax black, but 
whitish pollinose, giving a slaty color; scutellum dark brown, the 
immediate base grey. Abdomen uniformly reddish yellow or light 
ferruginous in color. Legs black, the front tarsi at the base yel- 
lowish. the four posterior tibiz and tarsi yellow, save that the tip 
of the tibie is blackish. Wings uniformly yellowish. Length 4 
millim, 
