G4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



by the veins, which are fuscous, flattened basally, rounded conical 

 outwardly,, the dark edging forming rounded dentations. The third spot 

 is inside the line, posterior to the last, subquadrate rather large, 

 reaching vein i. Hindwings yellowish, becoming quite whitish 

 translucent basally, and on middle field cross lines quite distinct, the 

 first near the middle, the outer not far removed, and having at the middle 

 three white spots long oval, divided by the veins, and strongly edged all 

 around with blackish. Wings beneath as above, less sharply determinate 

 in markings, the yellow more whitish and more washed with fuscous. 

 Abdomen yellowish, with a narrow line, more whitish on each segment. 

 In the male the abdomen is slender, extended, the genital armour 

 protruded, and with a long tuft of hair on either side of last segment. 

 Blanco Co., Central Texas. Specimens taken in April, July, September 

 and October. The single specimen taken in April is darker than the 

 rest, and there is some variation among all in the size of the whitish 

 spots. The generic reference is from Dr. Smith's new List of Lepidop- 

 tera, and so on Dr. Fernald's authority. 



NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID.^, WITH DE- 

 SCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.— Paper V.* 



BY C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO. 



The Tachinidae herein described and mentioned are from the more 

 northern parts of the U. S.; from Colo., Kan., Dakota, Iowa and Minn. 

 to Ills., Mich., Pa., N. Y., N. H. and D. C. 



BlepJiaripeza bico/or, Mcq 



A small specimen from Dixie Landing, Va. (D. C), Sept. 21, is 

 evidently this species. It measures 9 mm. 



Blepha7-ipeza exzil, n. sp., $ . 



Eyes light brown ; frontal vitta light brown, with a reddish tinge ; 

 sides of front cinereous ; face and cheeks silvery ; facial ridges bristly 

 half way up, sides of front bristly, sides of face bristly below frontal 

 bristles ; antennce blackish, first two joints and base of third rufous, arista 

 blackish ; third antennal joint little more than twice as long as the 



* Paper I. was published in Proc. Ent. Soc, Wash., XL; papers II. and III. in 

 Trans. Am. Ent, .Soc, XVIII. and XIX.; paper IN', in Ent. News, III. 



