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finely pubescent ; with two yellow stripes, acuminate in front, 

 and connected with the yellow post-alar callosities behind. 

 Scutellum wholly yellow. Pleurae yellow, the mesosternum black. 

 Abdomen black or dark-brown, with a red band across each of the 

 three anterior segments, Legs yellow, the tarsi infuscated toward 

 the tip. Wings hyaline. Length 5 mm. 



One specimen. 1500 feet. 



Ctphomiia. 

 Wiedemann, Zool. Mag., i., 3, 55, 1819. 



1. Gyphomyia lasiophthalma, n. sp. 



^ . Eyes markedly pilose. The small vertical triangle black ; 

 frontal triangle and face shining metallic black, densely clothed 

 with white pile, intermixed with black hairs. Antennae black, the 

 base of the third joint red. The narrow inferior occipital orbits 

 white pubescent. Mesonotum shining violet-black, with three 

 stripes of white pubescence, and with long, erect, black pile. Scu- 

 tellum like the mesonotum, with long black pile and white pubes- 

 cence ; spines as long as the scutellum, somewhat divergent, reddish 

 at the distal end, and clothed with black pile. Pleurae with white 

 pile. Tegulse yellow. Abdomen shining metallic blue, with erect 

 black pile, and four sharply marked, white pubescent spots. 

 Legs black ; the knees and base of hind metatarsi reddish ; four 

 anterior metatarsi, except their tip, light yellow. Wings nearly 

 hyaline. 



$ . Antennas a little longer, the third joint about equal to half 

 the width of the head. Front and face shining blue-black, clothed 

 with close-lying, nearly white pile, the face nearly bare in the 

 middle. Occipital orbits a little broader than in the male, white 

 pubescent. Pile of mesonotum and scutellum dusky, that on the 

 spines white ; the spines are wholly of the colour of the mesonotum, 

 and are shorter than in the male. Abdomen, as usual, with six spots. 

 Length 7 mm. 



Two specimens. 1500 feet. The species is allied to C. 

 marginata, Loew, one of the few known species with 

 long-pilose eyes. The front of the female is narrow and 

 without elevations of any kind. 



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