102 TACHINIDAE. 



Mclobosis Walker, List, etc. IV, 743. Florida. 

 obconica Walker, Dipt. Saund., 296. - - United States. 

 signifera Walker, List, etc. IV, 708. - - Nova Scotia. 

 speculifera Walker, 1. c. 731. North America. 

 imifasciata R. Desvoidy, Myod. 105 (Latreillia). Philadelphia. 



albincisa Wieclemann, Auss. Zw. II, 334, 98. - - St. Thomas. 

 breviventris Wiedemann 1. c. II, 297, 28. Brazil (Wied.) ; Jamaica 



(Walker, List, etc. IV, 712). 



ens delis Wiedemann, 1. c. II, 300, 35. - - West Indies. 

 cubaecula Jaennicke, Nene Exot. Dipt. 74; Tab. II, f. 6. Cuba. 

 distincta Wiedemann, Anal. Ent 45; Auss. Zw. II, 334, 99. - - We?t 



Indies. [According to Macquart, Dipt. Exot. II, 3, 59, this is a 



Masicera]. 



eleg-aiis Bigot, in R. de la Sagra etc. 810; Tab. 20, f. 7. - - Cuba. 

 hirta Drury, Ins. 109; Tab. XLV, f. 4 (Musca). Jamaica. 

 occidentalis Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 335. -- St. Thomas. [Also 



referred to Masicera by Macquart, Dipt. Exot. II, 3, 59.] 

 potens Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 312; Bigot, in R. de la Sagra etc 



810. Brazil (Wied.); Cuba (Bigot) [Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Jl, :j, 



58, refers this species to Lurygaster]. 



pusilla Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 337, 104. West Indies. 

 saltatrix Wiedemann, 1. c. 300, 36. - - West Indies. 

 trivittata Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 300, 34. - - West Indies. 

 subvaria Walker, Dipt. Saund., 299. - - West Indies. 



Observation. Tachina anonyma (Masicera?) Riley, 4 th Rep. 

 129, 5th Rep. 133 and 7i Rep. 178 has never been described. 

 It was bred from different moths, and also trom the migratory 

 Grasshopper Caloptenus sprdus. 



Masicera. 



Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt. II, 118; 1835. A 



arcliippivora Riley, 3 d Rep. 150. - - Missouri (parasitic on Danaus 

 arcliippus and other caterpillars). 



cubensis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. 3e Suppl. 46, 13; Tab. V, f. 5; 



Bigot, in R. de la Sagra etc , 813. - - Cuba. 

 expergita Walker, Tr.ins. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. V, 304. Mexico. 

 disputans Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. V, 303. - - Mexico. 

 gentica Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. V, 302. - - Mexico. 

 iiecopiua Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. 303. - - Mexico. 



Observation. Macquart, Dipt. Exot. II, 3, 59 refers Tacliira 

 distincta Wied. and T. occidentalis Wied., both from the West 

 Indies, to the genus Masicera; they will be found among the 

 Tachinae. 



Plioroccra. 



R. Desvoidy, Myod. 131; 1830. 

 Schiner, Fauna Austr. I, 488. 

 Walker, List, etc IV 779. North America (?). 



