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the entire dorsal surface, the thorax except a small black patch on the 

 proepimera, another on the middle of the metathorax, the abdomen except 

 those small black areas on the middle of the first and last segments and 

 the anterior half of the second. It partially obscures the elytral punctua 

 tion but not the thoracic. Thorax nearly uniformly punctate, lateral vittae 

 indistinct, apex of median sometimes exposed, apical fossa more or less 

 indistinct. Scutellum coated. Pygidium $ subquadrate, rounded each 

 side of apex, of 9 subtriangular, about one-fourth longer than wide. 

 Metasternum very coarsely sparsely foveate-punctate, remainder of ventral 

 surface rather coarsely sparsely punctate, very sparse on second, third 

 and fourth abdominal. Ventral concavity $ very shallow, scarcely differ 

 ent from 9- 



Length 7.0-9.5 mm; width 2.5-3.8 mm. 



Edinburg, Texas (Coll. Chittenden) ; Brownsville, Texas, 

 July (H. F. Wickham) ; "Tex." 

 Type. No. 796? U. S. National Museum. 



No other species known to the writer as inhabiting the United 

 States is provided with such a dense felt-like covering. 



NEW DIPTERA FROM INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. 

 By D. W. CoqyiLLETT. 



Mr. George Compere, a native of this country and for several 

 years an inspector of fruit pests at Los Angeles, California, but 

 at present the government entomologist of West Australia, re 

 cently transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, for naming, an interest 

 ing series of bred insects from that country and India, the Diptera 

 of which were assigned to the writer for study and report. An 

 extended search through the literature of these and the neighbor 

 ing regions has failed to reveal any descriptions applicable to five 

 of the species, and in the belief that they are as yet undescribed, 

 they are duly characterized herewith : 



Family TACHINID^. 

 Tachina psychidivora, n. sp. 



Black, the face, cheeks, palpi, scutellum, and front angles of the second 

 and third segments of the abdomen, yellow. Vertex nearly as wide as 

 either eye, sides of front yellowish gray pruinose, the face and cheeks 

 white, no orbital bristles, frontals descending on sides of face halfway to 

 the vibrissaB, the latter situated distinctly above the front edge of the oral 

 margin, ridges bristly halfway to the lowest frontal bristle, cheeks more 

 than one-fourth as wide as the eye height; antennae three-fourths as long 

 as the face, the third joint broad, nearlv three times as long as the sec- 



