180 
Psyche 
[June 
spurious vein and bordering the first posterior cell nar- 
rowly on its anterior margin. Spur or stigma present. 
In P. townsendi the infuscation does not reach into first 
basal and first posterior cells. 
Type, a female. College Station, Texas, April 4, 1920 
(H. J. Reinhard). 
Polybiomyia reinhardi n. sp. 
This species is allied to P. bellardi Shannon. The pos- 
terior margin of the abdominal segments are reddish 
brown, not yellow, and the yellowish coloration of bellardi 
is consistently replaced by reddish brown. Moreover, the 
wings are infuscated heavily along their entire length to 
end of costa, the black of the face below antennae reaches 
the margins of the eye laterally, etc. 
Length about 19 mm. if the entire length from tip of 
curved abdomen to end of antenna be included. Female. 
Upper occiput and vertex swollen, tumid, light reddish 
brown becoming dark brownish red about ocelli and on the 
sides of the front above. Front brownish yellow on the 
sides, below with a rounded lobe of black protruding on 
either side from the middle; middle of front broadly shin- 
ing black with short silvery pubescence. Face yellow, with 
a broad wedge-shaped black vertical stripe, extended at 
right angles just below antennae in a bifurcate band to eye 
margins; a lateral oblique black stripe runs from oral 
margin to eye margin. Vertical median stripe with silvery 
pubescence medianly and laterally and oblique stripe with 
a narrow posterior border pubescent. Cheeks and the 
broad wide lower occiput reddish brown. Entire rim of 
oral margin black. Antennifer and antennae reddish brown, 
the second joint nearly equal in length to the first; third 
joint half as long as second; style pale, conspicuously 
silvery pubescent, two-fifths as long as the third joint. 
Face and lower lateral front unique in bearing many small 
pimple-like bumps or papillae bearing short setae. Entire 
face and head shining as if varnished. 
Thorax shining black with three obscurely indicated pol- 
linose vittae, one broad median one and a very narrow one 
on either side. Humeri and a spot before the base of the 
