18fi Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



Head light yellow, frontal vitta dark yellow, occiput, except the margin and a 

 notch on upper part, brown, antennae yellow, the upper edge of the third joint tinged 

 with brown, mouth parts light yellow ; mesonotum and scutellum black, opaque, 

 gray pruinose, pleura yellow, the sternopleura largely, and a spot above it, brown ; 

 mesonotum between the two rows of four dorsocentral bristles bare except in front of 

 the suture, pleura bare except a few bristles along hind edge of mesopleura and one 

 on the sternopleura ; middle of metanotum and entire abdomen dark brown ; femora 

 yellow, a preapical brownish spot on the front side of each, tibia; and tarsi brown ; 

 wings hyaline, last section of fifth vein nearly one and one half times as long as the 

 preceding section ; halteres yellow. Length, 1.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. 



A single specimen collected by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. Type 

 No. 6649, U. S. N. M. 



Parodinia, gen. nov. 



Near Odinia but with only two pairs of fronto-orbital bristles, eyes transversely 

 ellipsoidal, etc. Head subquadrate, front convex, two pairs of vertical bristles, one 

 pair of ocellars and a small, cruciate postvertical pair, front below the ocelli as wide 

 as long, bare except for the fronto-orbitals, antennae porrect, half as long as the head, 

 the third joint orbicular, over twice as long as the second, arista bare, face concave, 

 vibrissse present, on a level with the oral margin, proboscis short, robust, palpi clavate, 

 auxiliary vein distinct in its basal portion, uniting with the first vein near its apex, 

 costal vein reaches apex of fourth, not incised, third and fourth veins almost parallel, 

 hind crossvein transverse, sixth vein obliterated before reaching the wing margin, anal 

 and second basal cells present but small. 



Type, the following species : 

 Parodinia cinerea, sp. nov. 



Head yellow, the occiput, except the lower part, black, gray pruinose, mouth 

 parts and antenna yellow, third joint of the latter black, cheeks one-third as wide as 

 the eye height ; body black, opaque, densely gray pruinose, five pairs of dorsocentral 

 bristles, four supraalar, one humeral, two posthumeral, one propleural, one near hind 

 edge of mesopleura, two sternopleural and four scutellar bristles, legs yellow, tarsi 



recognized, while trinotata is regarded by Schiner as being identical with the Milichia 

 inacitlata of Meigen. This leaves spedosa as the type of Alilichia, and it was so 

 designated by Westwood in 1840 and by Rondani in 1856. In 1843 Loew wrongly 

 selected viaculata as the type of MilicJiia, and in this he has been followed by 

 Schiner, Osten Sacken, and most recent writers. The synonymy of these two genera 

 is as follows : 



Milichia Meigen, 1830; type, speciosa Meigen. 



Synon. ^rry';vV?5 Latreille, 1829 (not of Huebncr, 1816) ; no species men- 

 tioned. 

 Lobioplero Wahlberg, 1847 ; type, /iidi'its Wahlberg. 

 (hlinia Desvoidy, 1850; type, tniiotiiln Desvoidy. 



•Synon. AllifoDUTiis Rondani, 1S56; type, Od iiia tiinotata Desvoidy. 



