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3. Mycothcra paradoxa 11. sp. 

 Female. Length 3 mm. Head and antennas dark brown, the 

 scape and palpi yellow. Thorax reddish yellow, dorsum with 

 faint indication of 3 dark stripes, the scutellum, center of 

 metanotum and the lower margin of the pleura, brown; hairs, 

 yellow; setae blackish. Abdomen reddish yellow, each segment 

 with a broad, indistinct, subfucous transverse fascia; ovipositor 

 yellow (Fig. 63). Coxae and legs yellow, tarsi brown; middle 

 tibiae each with 2 or 3 setse on the flexor surface. ■ Wings gray- 

 ish hyaline, with a central spot and a diffuse preapical cloud ■ 

 cubitus forks distinctly proximad of the proximal end of the 

 crossvein (Fig. 188). Halteres yellow. Ithaca, N. Y. 



4. Mycothcra sp. 

 Female. Length 3 mm. Thorax and abdomen brown, 

 hvmieri yellow. Cubitus forks about under the fork of the 

 media. In other respects like M. paradoxa. Black Rock 

 Creek, Wyo., Price Co., AVis., (W.M.W.) ; Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 

 In one N. Y. specimen the thorax is yellow with 3 distinct 

 brown stripes, and the apical wing cloud faint, in another the 

 apical wing cloud is entirely wanting. 



5. Mycothcra uiitis n. sp. 



Male. Length 3 mm. Head and antennae brown, scape and 

 palpi yellow. Thorax reddish brown, the center of the mesono- 

 tum, scutellum and metanotum fuscous, humeri yellowish, setse 

 l)lack. Abdomen dark reddish brown, hind margin of each 

 tergite indistinctly yellow, venter and hypopygium yellow (Fig. 

 64). Coxae and legs yellow, tarsi brown; middle tibiae each 

 with a single seta on flexor surface. Wing hyaline, central 

 spot pale brown, no preapical cloud (Fig. 189). Halteres yel- 

 low. Wisconsin, July. 



6. Mycothcra recta n. sp. 



Male. Length 3 mm. Head and thorax brown, scape and 

 palpi yellow. Thorax reddish brown, the center of the mesono- 

 tum, the scutellum and metanotum brownish, humeri yellow, 

 setae black. Abdomen dark reddish brown, darker posteriorly, 

 hind margins of segments and venter indistinctly yellowish, 

 hypopygium dusky yellow (Fig. 65). Coxae and legs yellow, 

 tarsi and tips of hind femora brown ; middle tibiae each with 



