OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIV, 1912. 119 



Described from 1 male collected June 19, 1905, and 1 female 

 collected July 8, 1906; both from Regina, in the Saskatchewan 

 region, Canada; both specimens collected by Mr. T. N. 

 Willing, after whom the species is named. 



Type: No. 14695, U. S. National Museum. 



i 

 Chalcomyia cyaneus, new species. 



Dark metallic blue, shining, very sparsely clothed with short grayish 

 pile; eyes and arista bare; dichoptic species. Length 7 to X mm. 



Male. Eyes moderately separated; front metallic bluish black, shining, 

 sparsely grayish pilose on the vertex, a narrow obsolete cross-band near 

 the middle; antenna; situated upon a strong conical projection, the first 

 two joints short, the first joint blackish, the second and third light brownish ; 

 the third joint orbicular; arista basal, bare, dark brown; margin of the 

 antennal process at base of antennae reddish brown; face below the an- 

 tennal process concave, very moderately tubercular near the middle, 

 produced a little below the eyes; middle of .the face, epistoma on the 

 under sides, and the cheeks shining metallic blue; a grayish white polli- 

 nose stripe runs from the eyes obliquely to the oral margin; the mesonotum, 

 scutellum, and the pleurae shining metallic blue, very sparsely gray pilose; 

 scutellum moderately large and projecting, the outer angles rounded, 

 faintly shallow grooved on the disk; abdomen oval in outline, somewhat 

 flattened, shining metallic blue, very short grayish pilose, longer on the 

 lateral margins. in front; legs rather stout, dark brownish black, shining; 

 extreme tip of femora and base of tibiae reddish brown; hind femora mod- 

 erately thickened; pile on the under sides of hind tarsi golden in some 

 reflections; wings subhyaline, faintly yellowish tinged, the third and sixth 

 longitudinal veins nearly straight, anterior cross-vein oblique, situated 

 before tjie middle of the discal cell; subcostal cell from slightly before 

 the tip of the auxiliary vein to the costa yellow; calypteres white. 



Described from two male specimens taken at Franconia, 

 New Hampshire, by Mrs. A. T. Slosson. 

 Type: No. 14696, U. S. National Museum. 



FAMILY TACHINID^. 

 Phorocera einaris, new species. 



Thorax, legs and abdomen black, dusted with pollen. Length, 11 to 14 

 mm. 



Eyes densely pilose; front in the male about two-thirds, in the female 

 about five-sixths as wide as cither eye; frontalia opaque black; parafrontals 

 densely yellowish gray pollinose; the parafacials, cheeks, and occiput 

 densely dusted gray pollinose, sometimes nearly all the pollen of the head 

 is faintly tinged with yellow; front in the male projecting about two-thirds, 

 in the female about one-half the horizontal diameter of the eye as viewed 

 from the side; frontal bristles descending to or slightly below the apex of 



