Color. Head entirely dark, frons 
uniformly matt black, orbit weakly, 
shining, grayish black; antenna black; 
mesonotum deep black, moderately 
shining, scutellum and side of thorax 
black; legs black but all femora 
narrowly yellowish; squama and margin 
whitish, fringe essentially similar, 
at most faintly ochreous; abdomen 
black. 
Male genitalia. Aedeagus (figs. 1317, 
1318) with paired distal tubules, 
mesophallus conspicuously short and 
broad; sperm pump with large moderately 
pigmented blade, which is broader than 
high, stalk short, base shortly 
pigmented . 
Host /early stages. Unknown. 
Holotype m., Georgia, Rabun Co., Pine 
Mountain, 1,400 ft, 14.V.57 (W. R. M. 
Mann), in CNC. 
Remarks. The single ors, dark color, 
and pale squamal fringe associate this 
species with P. pulchella , n. sp., and 
it is possible that both are feeders 
on Ranunculaceae . 
Phytomyza nepetae Hendel (new to 
U.S.A.) 
(Figs. 1353, 1354) 
Phytomyza nepetae Hendel, 1922: 70. 
Syntypes from Germany in ZMHU. 
The group of small, closely related 
black species known in Europe as leaf 
miners on Boraginaceae and Lamiaceae 
was revised in detail by Nowakowski 
(1959). Nine species are known in 
Europe. One leaf miner on Nepeta 
(Lamiaceae), P. nepetae , has previously 
been recorded in North America, with 
records from Ontario and Quebec 
(Spencer, 1969a: 258), and this species 
has now been identified from Washington 
State. The aedeagus is shown in 
figures 1353, 1354. Probably P . 
nepetae was introduced into Canada and 
the Western United States by early 
settlers. Another species feeding on 
Boraginaceae, P. ovalis Griffiths, is 
recorded here from Colorado. 
New record. 
Washington, Yakima Co., Wapato, 
"sweeping Nepeta cataria , " 13 m. , 
4 f., 26. VI. 52 (K. E. Frick, Lot 
51 - 16) , in CAS . 
Phytomyza notopleuralis Spencer 
(new to U.S.A. ) 
(Fig. 1248) 
Phytomyza notopleuralis Spencer, 
1969a: 259. Holotype male from 
Ontario in CNC. 
P. notopleuralis has been known only 
from the Ottawa area. 
During his examination of Chroma tomyia 
regalensis (Steyskal, 1972b), Griffiths 
(1980: 6) found that one of the two 
specimens treated as paratypes had 
been misidentif ied and represents this 
species. This specimen is from 
Michigan, Keweenaw County, 9. VII. 57 
(R. W. Hodges), in USNM. 
The aedeagus is shown in figure 1248, 
with the distiphallus slender, divided, 
at right angles to a large, horseshoe- 
shaped sclerite lying beyond the apex 
of the basal sclerites. 
• 
Phytomyza ovalis Griffiths (new to 
U.S.A. ) 
(Figs. 1357, 1358) 
Phytomyza ovalis Griffiths, 1975: 133. 
Holotype male from Yukon Territory 
in CNC. 
P^. ovalis belongs to a complex of four 
species feeding as leaf miners on 
Boraginaceae and known in North 
America from Alberta and British 
Columbia to Alaska. Related species 
on Boraginaceae are known in Europe. 
A single male has been seen in this 
complex from Colorado, Jackson County, 
Rabbit Ear Pass, 7. VII. 61 (j. G. 
Chillcott), in CNC, which is tentative- 
ly identified as P. ovalis . Although 
this specimen differs in minor detail 
from P. ovalis , as described and 
illustrated by Griffiths (1975), it is 
clearly undesirable to describe another 
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