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Psyche 
[April 
NEW SPECIES OF SCATOPHAGIES. 
By Charles W. Johnson 
Boston Society of Natural History. 
Amaurosoma Becker. 
This genus is characterized by having three sternopleural 
bristles, the first vein without bristles; arista slightly pubescent 
and the fore femora armed with a series of closely placed bristles 
on the anterior and antero-ventral surfaces. 
The following is a table of the New England species. The 
three species described by Malloch from Alaska in 1920 (Ohio 
Jour. Sci., XX, 284), and later tabulated (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. 
Soc., XVII, 77, 1922) are omitted. 
Table of species. 
1. Thorax and abdomen black, grayish poliinose, propleura 
hairy.? 2. 
Thorax, head and abdomen yellow, propleura nude 
nuda Mall. 
2. Wings uniformly hyaline 3 . 
Wings with the anterior half brownish . . . brunneicosta sp.nov. 
3. Antenna* black, abdomen subshining with hairs partly 
black, ventral part of the genital armature black, legs yel- 
low, tarsi brownish acuticornis Loew. 
Antenna* with the first and second joints yellowish, abdomen 
dull, with white hairs on all the segments, ventral part of 
the genital armature yellow, legs entirely light yellow. . . . 
pallidipes Mall. 
Amaurosoma brunneicosta sp. nov. 
Face and cheeks yellowish white, lower half of the front 
yellow, the upper part black, orbits, vertex and occiput grayish 
poliinose, three orbital and two small frontal bristles; antennae 
