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arms ending in a rather prominent flattened process. Legs normal, the 

 hind tibial sensory area distinct. Venation as in apicalis. Halteres with 

 conspicuously elongated knobs. Length, 2.5 mm. 



Type locality: White Heath, 111., collected by sweeping herbage 

 on bank of the Sangamon River, May 30, 1915 (J. R. Malloch). 



This species was noticeable in the net by its very rapid motions, 

 running swiftly up the sides, much more like a phorid than a chlo- 

 ropid, the latter being usually very slow and deliberate in action. 



Botanobia (Oscinis) proxima Malloch. 



This species is, I am convinced, a synonym of minor Adams. I 

 have taken it in numbers in Illinois, and have reared it from vol- 

 unteer wheat at Urbana. 



Genus PSEUDOCHLOROPS Mallock. 



This genus was founded upon leg characters which readily sepa- 

 rate the genotype from any species of the genus Chlorops and 

 point to its much closer affinity with Chloropisca. An examina- 

 tion of a larger number of species of the latter genus than was 

 possible at the time I erected the genus leads me to believe that 

 although the scutellum in the genotype of Pseudochlorops is not so 

 conspicuously flattened as that in most species of Chloropsia, its 

 possession of a flattened area bounded by a weak "rim," renders 

 it so unessentially different in structure from Chloropisca that it 

 should not be considered as entitled to distinct generic rank. 



Professor Aldrich informs me that the specimens named Chlorops 

 ii ti /color Loew in the U. S. National Museum are misidentified, be- 

 ing C. integra Becker. This species therefore goes in Chloropisca 

 and Pseudochlorops falls as a synonym of that genus. 



A NEW NOCTURNAL SPECIES OF TACHINIDAE. 



BY W. R. WALTON, 



Bureau of Entomology, Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations. 



Neophyto nocturnalis n. sp. 



General color obscure grayish, head obtusely conical, antennae very 

 short, wings narrow, slightly infuscated especially bordering veins. 

 Length 6-9 mm. Front in female one and one-third, in male, one-half eye 

 width; cinereous, vitta nearly black; two pairs of orbitals in female, 

 absent in male. Several pairs of smaller bristles, back of the ocellar pair. 

 Frontals (fig. 1) not descending below base of second antennal joint in 

 female, but ending distinctly above same in male. No frontal bristles 

 directed distinctly backward. Antenna black, third joint in either sex 

 subequal with second, tip of antennae descending but little below lower 



