SeiT. 1894.] CO(JlILI.Kr r. Kl.VISION <»I- I'A.Mll.N T II l.kK\ 1 D.K. lUl 



the color of the abdomen is different ; the male uould fall in cou- 

 plet 8, and then, in conjunction with the female, would stop at 

 frontalis, which has the abdomen wholly black, or at most, with a 

 very narrow yellowish hind border to some of the segments. 



Thereva nitoris, sp. nov. 



9 -Black, the tips of femoia and b:ise of tibiiV, reddish, balance of tibi;c dark 

 piceus. Front opaque, the upper two-tliirds grayish-black poilinose, the remainder 

 liglit gray except a triangular velvet black spot next each eye at the junction of 

 these two colors; pile on upper two-thirds of front and on proboscis black, that on 

 the lowest third of front, on face, cheek, palpi and occiput, white. Kirst joint of 

 antenna; scarcely wider than the second, of the same width and length as the third; 

 style one-third as long as the third joint. Thorax opaque, grayish-black poilinose, 

 two sub-median viltie and the bioad lateral margins, light gray; the pile yellowish, 

 the bristles like the four scutellar ones, black. Abdomen polished except the first 

 segment, hind margins of the second, third and fifth, and a spot on each side of 

 the sixth, which are whitish poliinose: pile on first three segments whitish, that 

 on remainder black. Wings grayish hyaline, stigma and narrow boider to the 

 veins, brown; fourth posterior cell open. Length, 10 mm. 



Missouri. A single female from Dr. Riley's collection, now 

 in the National Museum. 



This species would fall in with the last one in the table, mela- 

 iitura, a Californian species unknown to me, described from a inale 

 specimen ; the description by Dr. Loew, while omitting many im- 

 portant characters, still indicates too many differences to permit 

 us to consider this species as being identical with the one described 

 above. 



A NEW ANTHRAX FROM CALIFORNIA. 



iiy I). \V. Cocjuii.i.K 1 1, W.Asni.Nc. rox, D. C. 



Since the publication of my recent paper on the l)Ond)ylid;\.> 

 (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, March, 1S94), I detected a new species of 

 Anthrax among some specimens submitted for names by Mr. Wm. 

 Beutenmiiller. The species is a very striking one, owing to the 

 bright, coppery color of the tomentum on the head and body. In 

 the table of species given in the paper mentioned above (1. c, page 

 97) the present species would fall in with <v7/«////<7 except that the 

 pulvilli are wanting; it further dilfers from the last named species 

 by the front tibiae being destitute of bristles, the brown of the 

 wings filling less than one-fourth instead of nearly one-half of the 

 fourth posterior cell, etc. Its description is as follows: 



