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Bulletin Wisconsm Natural History Society. [Vol. 5, No. 2. 
Apiocera braunsi sp. nov. Plate 1. 
Male. Length of body 18 mm., length of wing 9.5 mm. A black 
species ornate with white pollen and pubescence. Head very small. 
Front broad, white pollinose, but with a broad mesial vitta piceous. 
This vitta is suddenly narrowed just above the antennae. The very 
sparse pile of the front corresponds in color to its basement, except 
that there is an irregular row of blackish hairs along the margin of 
the eye at the vertex. Anterior ocellus crescentic, light-colored, the 
posterior pair small, situated on the borders of the median vitta. Face 
short, fuscous, bare ; genae with a narrow white-pollinose stripe sep- 
arating the eyes from an elongate velvet-black macula. Upper part 
of the flattened occiput blackened except at the margin of the ej^es, 
where it is white pollinose like the lower portion ; upper portion of 
the occiput with numerous black bristly hairs ; the dense beard white. 
The securiform palpi testaceous, white pollinose, and provided with 
sparse black hairs above. Proboscis short, piceous, loosely provided 
with dusky pubescence below, and with a bunch of white hairs behind. 
Antennae short, black, the second joint smaller than the first, the upper 
and outer sides of the globose third joint dull fuscous ; the first two 
joints provided with black bristles above, the first joint with long white 
hairs below. 
Thorax short, mesonotum blackish, provided with brownish pollen, 
except on four equidistant broad white-pollinose vittae, the middle pair 
of white vittae are abbreviated on the last fourth of the dorsum, the 
outer pair begin on the humeri and extend back to include the 
white pollinose scutellum, pleurae entirely white pollinose. Pronotum 
white pubescent and with a collar of short black bristles, mesonotum 
loosely provided with dusky hairs, pleurae bare, prosternum with bushy 
white pubescence. All the bristles of the thorax comparatively short, 
black ; humeri with four or five bristles ; the outermost black vittae 
with black hairs and about six bristles ; about four supra-alar bristles 
present ; post-alar callus with three longer bristles ; a single pair of 
prescutellar bristles present; scutellum with six marginals. 
Abdomen long, black, subshining, especially posteriorly, white 
fasciate on the hind border of the first six segments, the white border 
excised in the middle in front on the first and second segments, and 
on the third and fourth segments it becomes attenuated at the sides, 
the fifth, sixth, and seventh segments white pollinose at the base, on 
the sixth segment the black ground color is obliterated except on the 
