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Brazil agree more closely with Loew^s description. In 

 the West Indian specimens there is also a distinct 

 frontal stripe, only slightly indicated in the South 

 American ones. 



2. Sapromyza angustipennis, n. sp. (PI. XIII., fig. 134, 



wing.) 



o , $ . Front broader above than below, its width at the 

 anterior end equal to about one-half the length ; opaque reddish- 

 brown with yellowish spots ; on either side with four small yellow 

 tubercles, from the upper three of which the stout frontal bristles 

 arise. Antennae brownish-yellow ; third joint a little longer than 

 wide. Face thickly greyish-pollinose, with two small, oval black 

 spots. Cheeks, proboscis, palpi, and the greater part of the occiput 

 light-yellow. Mesonotum and scutellum opaque reddish-brown, 

 the former with the beginning of stripes and two or three minute 

 spots on each side in front grey. Pleurge more yellowish-brown. 

 Abdomen long ovate ; first three segments light-yellow ; the next 

 three yellow with a narrow median stripe and an ill-defined spot, 

 each side black. Legs light-yellow ; hind tibise with a stout pre- 

 apical bristle. Wings elongate, deep brown in front, nearly 

 hyaline on the posterior part ; in the outer part there are two or 

 three small round hyaline spots, near which the brown is of a 

 deeper colour. Length 3J-4 mm. 



Six specimens. This species, in its front and elongated 

 wings, is somewhat aberrant from most Sapromyzds, 



3. Sapromyza puella, n. sp. 



(^ , 5 . Front only a little longer than wide ; reddish-yellow, 

 brownish above and on the sides. Antennas black, the first two 

 joints somewhat reddish ; third joint oval, more than twice as long 

 as wide ; arista plumose on the upper side of the proximal part. 

 Face, cheeks and lower part of the occiput light-yellow. Thorax 

 deep-brown or black, almost opaque, with two narrow greyish 

 stripes. Scutellum black. Abdomen black, the terminal segments 

 more or less reddish. Legs light-yellow, the tarsi brownish ; hind 

 tibiae without a preapical bristle. Wings yellowish ; ultimate 

 section of the fourth vein rather more than twice the length of 

 the penultimate section. Length 2^-3 mm. 



Twenty specimens. St. Vincent. 



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