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15. Thorax light yellow 16. 



Thorax brownish or brownish-yellow 17. 



16. Antennae and palpi, except basal joint, brown .... COCkerelli O q. 

 Antennas wholly yellow parallelus n. sp. 



17. Antennas of male long, reaching beyond the root of the wings . . 18. 

 Antenna of male not reaching beyond root of wings, manicatus Doane. 



18. Antennae of male longer than the whole body . . . loiigicornus n. sp. 

 Antennae not longer than the whole body 19. 



19. Thorax with three brown stripes affinis Lund. 



Thorax without stripes monticoia O. S. 



Rhypholophus arcuatus n. sp. 



Brown; head grayish brown, front darker; rostrum, palpi and anten- 

 nae brown, the latter somewhat lighter toward the base; thorax brown 

 with a grayish bloom, with rather long yellow hairs ; scutellum and 

 metanotum hoary ; halteres pale, knobs slightly darker ; legs light 

 brown, tarsi darker; abdomen brown with rather dense light yellow 

 hair; ovipositor long, ferrugineous, upper valves strongly arcuated; 

 wings brown, pubescence rather dense of medium length ; stigma slightly 

 darker; veins darker brown; auxiliary cross vein about half way be- 

 tween the origin of the praefurca and the tip of the auxiliary vein; 

 discal cell closed, seventh vein arcuated in such a way that the axil- 

 lary cell is broader in the middle than at the tip. Length 6 mm., wing 

 8 mm. 



Hab. — Ithaca, N. Y. Two females. 



Rhypholophus divexus n sp. 



Brown; palpi and first joint of antennae dark brown, other segments 

 of antennae very light brown; thorax wholly light yellowish-brown; 

 legs brown ; femora, except at the base, much darker ; abdomen brown ; 

 with dense rather long brownish-yellow hairs ; ovipositor ferrugineous, 

 upper valves strongly arcuated ; wings brown ; stigma darker brown, 

 distinct; pubescence rather long and dense; discal cell opening into the 

 second posterior cell ; sixth and seventh veins diverging. Length 4 mm., 

 wing 6 mm. 



Hab. — Keyport, Wash. One female. 



Rhypholophus loiigicornus n. sp. 



Brown; palpi and antennae brown, elongate the latter in the male 

 as long as the whole body; joints of the flagellum somewhat fusiform 

 with a dense whirl of long fine light-brown hairs ; thorax brownish 

 yellow, slightly darker above ; halteres yellowish brown, tips of knobs 

 darker brown ; legs light brown ; abdomen brown with rather dense 

 long light-yellowish hairs ; hypopygium yellow, lobes somewhat elon- 

 gate, claws reddish-brown darker at the tips^ ovipositor ferrugineous, 

 long, slender, upper valves conspicuously arcuated; wings rather broad, 



