Two new species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), Azanamalinamoena and Azanafrizzelli, spp. nov., are described and figured from California. These species represent the first records of Azana for western North America. A diagnosis of the genus Azana Walker is presented and a provisional key for the New World species of the genus is given. The discovery of A.malinamoena and A.frizzelli in California and their apparently close relationship to A.nigricoxa Strobl from south-western Europe (rather than to the only other Azana species known from North America, A.sinusa Coher) implies a more complicated biogeographic history of this genus in North America, one that probably includes multiple, independent dispersal events.