May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 202 



brown, stigma and the costal cell somewhat darker; pubescence long 

 and dense over the whole wing; discal cell opening into the third pos- 

 terior cell; distal portion of the sixth and seventh veins subparallel. 

 Length 4 mm., wing 6 mm. 



Hab. — Keyport, Wash. Two males, two females. 



Rhypholophus parallelus n. sp. 



Yellow ; front and palpi somewhat darker ; antennae wholly yellow ; 

 thorax reddish yellow, slightly darker above; halteres pale yellow; 

 knobs slightly infuscated at the tip; legs yellowish; abdomen brownish 

 above, yellow below; ovipositor reddish-yellow, upper valves somewhat 

 arcuated ; wings brown, rather narrow ; stigma indistinct ; discal cell 

 opening into the third posterior cell; distal portion of the sixth and 

 seventh veins subparallel, the latter slightly arcuated; pubescence on 

 the wings rather long and dense. Length S mm., wing 6 mm. 



Hab. — Ithaca, N. Y. Two females. 



Rhypholophus cornutns n. sp. 



Yellowish-brown ; rostrum and palpi darker brown ; antennae light 

 brown, joints of the flagellum of the male with a dense soft pubescence 

 and long verticles, those of the female with the pubescence less dense; 

 thorax yellowish-brown with sparse reddish-yellow hairs ; halteres 

 yellowish ; legs brownish, femora lighter toward the base ; abdomen 

 brown, with long sparse yellow hairs ; hypopygium reddish-brown, 

 horny appendages black, those at the tip of the lobes very broad and 

 emitting three short curved branches ; ovipositor reddish-yellow, upper 

 valves slightly arcuated ; wings brown ; stigma darker brown ; pubescence 

 on wings not very long or dense ; discal cell opening into the third pos- 

 terior cell; distal portions of the sixth and seventh veins subparallel. 

 Length 5 mm., wing 6 mm. 



Hab. — Stanford University, Cal. Two males, one female. 



