34 | DIPTERA. 
5. Echinomyia piliventris. (Tab. II. fig. 13 @, head in profile.) 
Echinomyia piliventris, van der Wulp, Tijdschr. voor Ent. Xxvi. p. 22. 13°. 
Hab. Mzxico, Presidio (Forrer).—ARGENTINE REPUBLIC '. 
A single male specimen. 
6. Echinomyia dispar, sp.n.¢ 9. (Tab. II. fig. 14, head in profile.) 
Thorax cinereous; scutellum rufous; abdomen shining black, laterally rufous; head whitish, the front 
brownish; frontal band and the basal joints of the antenne rufous, the third joint of the latter and the 
legs black; base of the wings yellowish. 
Length 11 millim. 
Head yellowish-white; front greyish-brown, with a ferruginous median band; beard and pilosity of the 
occiput pale yellow. Antenne ferruginous; third joint, except the extreme base, black; second joint on 
the upper part with several bristles; third joint about as long as the second, but broader, convex on 
the front side, straight behind; arista thickened for two thirds of its length. Proboscis shining black ; 
palpi fulvous, thick, especially towards the end. Thorax with cinereous tomentum and four longitudinal 
black lines; scutellum rufous, with greyish tomentum. Abdomen cordiform, convex, shining black, 
laterally with a more or less rufous extension. Legs black; hind tibie with many bristles ; at the under- 
side of the basal joints of the hind tarsi a thick and short, reddish pile; foot-claws black, the pulvilli 
yellow, in the male but little elongated, in the female very short; front tarsi in the female not dilated. 
Tegule whitish; wings grey, at the base and at the beginning of the costa yellowish; veins in the 
yellowish portion rufous, for the rest black; small cross-vein placed on the middle of the discal cell; 
posterior cross-vein a little curved. 
Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
A male and two female specimens. 
The following species are also recorded from Central America :— 
Echinomyia cora, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. cxl.—Mexico. 
macrocera, Bigot, loc. cit. p. cxl.—Mexico. 
notata, Bigot, loc. cit. p. exli—Mexico. 
MICROPALPUS. 
Micropalpus, Macquart, Suit. & Buffon, Dipt. 11. p. 80 (1835). 
1. Micropalpus fulgens. 
Tachina fulgens, Meig. Syst. Beschr. iv. p. 259. 34, t. 41. f. 23, 
Micropalpus fulgens, Macq. Suit. 4 Buffon, Dipt. 1. p. 88. 30; Schiner, Faun. Austr., Dipt. i. p. 428. 
Linnemyia heraclei, Rob.-Desv. Essai sur les Myod. p. 53. 3. 
Micropalpus heraclei, Macq. Suit. & Buff., Dipt. i. p. 81. 3. 
Linnemyia analis, Rob.-Desv. Essai sur les Myod. p. 54. 4. 
Micropalpus analis, Macq. Suit. & Buff., Dipt. 1. p. 82. 4. 
Linnemyia borealis, Rob.-Desv. Essai sur les Myod. p. 54. 6. 
Micropalpus borealis, Macq. Suit. & Buff., Dipt. i. p. 82. 5. 
Linnemyia estivalis, Rob.-Desv. Essai sur les Myod. p. 54. 7. 
Linnemyjia distincta, Rob.-Desv. 1. c. p. 54, 57. 
Micropalpus comptus, Rond. Prodrom. Dipt. Ital. iii. p. 70. 7. 
Hab. Nortu America!,—Mexico, Presidio, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet (forrer).— 
EUROPE. 
