. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. 428 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Fig. 35—Eur ell ia apicata, wing. Urellia apicata, n. sp. Type—Female from Colorado. Brown; wings hyaline with radiating picture in the apex, stigma coloured. Scutellum with four bristles. Posterior basal cross-vein right angled; small cross-vein two-thirds along the discal cell; third vein with bristles. Length 9 mm., wing 6 mm. Head—Front yellowish brown, of uniform width and one-third as wide as the head. Lower frontals varying in size and number, four on one side and five on the other; all bristles brown a


. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. 428 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Fig. 35—Eur ell ia apicata, wing. Urellia apicata, n. sp. Type—Female from Colorado. Brown; wings hyaline with radiating picture in the apex, stigma coloured. Scutellum with four bristles. Posterior basal cross-vein right angled; small cross-vein two-thirds along the discal cell; third vein with bristles. Length 9 mm., wing 6 mm. Head—Front yellowish brown, of uniform width and one-third as wide as the head. Lower frontals varying in size and number, four on one side and five on the other; all bristles brown and more or less pale, cilia of posterior orbit also pale. Cephalon brown. Cheeks rather broad. Oral opening large, margin not projecting. Face retreating, slightly hollowed and clay- yellow. Antennae short, reaching two-thirds to the arcuate oral margin, third segment with rounded anterior corner; second seg- ment with minute spine; arista brown. Thorax—Brown; bristles brown, short hair yellowish. First pair of dorso-central bristles one-third from the transverse suture to the scutellum. The latter flat and bearing four bristles, the middle pair being a little the shorter. Halteres brown. Abdomen—Dark brown, shining; short hair, dark brown. Macrochaetae prominent, brown. Genital segment of the female broad, flat, and brown tipped with black; as long as the last two abdominal segments taken together. Legs—Light brown with bristles of the same colour. Hind tibia with row of short strong bristles, fore-femora strongly armed as usual. Wings—Hyaline with the fuscous area in the apex beyond the hind crossvein and above the fourth vein; stigma fuscous. Running posteriorly from the black spot are three rays, two crossing the second posterior cell and one covering the hind cross-vein. The dark area contains two large and three small hyaline spots; a large one just beyond the tip of- the second vein. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that


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