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middle of the discal cell; apical and posterior cross-veins nearly straight, the latter inserted in the middle 
between the small cross-vein and the curvature of the fourth vein. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
A single female specimen. 
I here give a list of the Mexican species of the group Tachinine which have been 
described or characterized by M. Bigot; those previously diagnosed by the same author 
are already noted by me under their respective genera, Jurinia and Hchinomyia. 
Jurinia (?) barbata, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 78. no. 1. 
— gonoides, Bigot, 1. c. no. 2. 
Echinomyia rubrifrons, Bigot, 1. c. p. 80. no. 2. 
cora, Bigot, 1. c. p. 81. no. 3. 
macrocera, Bigot, 1. c. p. 81. no. 4. 
Bigot, 1. c. p. 82. no. 5. 
cinerascens, Bigot, 1. c. p. 256. no. 12*. 
Micropalpus nigrifrons, Bigot, 1. c. p. 263. no. 49. 
Fabricia infumata, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. cxli; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1888, p. 85. no. 1. 
Frontina rufostylata, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. cxli; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1888, p. 83. no. I. 
chrysopygata, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 84. no. 2. 
Elachipalpus nigrifrons, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. cxli. 
Cestonia nigra, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 259. no. 31. 
Macquartia atrifrons, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 259. no. 32. 
Prosopea americana, Bigot, 1. c. p. 260. no. 34. 
The genera Fabricia, Frontina, Elachipalpus, Cestonia, Macquartia, and Prosopea are 
not mentioned in my synoptical table of the Central-American genera of Tachinine, 
pp. 5-7, nor in the supplementary table, pp. 41-44. The genus Prosopea, Rond., 
is closely allied to Prospherysa, v.d. Wulp ; Prosopea americana, Big., of which I have‘ 
examined a typical specimen, is even identical with the subsequently described Pro- 
spherysa contigua, v. d. Wulp (anted, p. 120). 
In the ‘ Denkschr. der kais. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien,’ lvi. pp. 69 e¢ seq. (1889), 
Prof. Fr. Brauer and Herr J. E. von Bergenstamm have published a long paper with 
highly interesting observations and remarks on the classification of the “ Muscide 
Calyptere.” In this work several new species, forming types of new genera, are 
described, and among them the following three Tachinid-flies from Mexico :—Phasio- 
pteryx bilimeki (1.c. p. 147), Myiopharus metopia (1. c. p. 161), and Masipoda geminata 
* Examples of this species are contained in the recently received collections, and will be mentioned with 
others in a Supplement. 
