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bristles; pleurae dusted grayish; three sternopleural bristles; scutellum 

 pollinose, bearing three pairs of long marginal and a short apical pair of 

 macrochaetse; bristles and bristly hairs of scutellum erect; legs brownish 

 black, thinly dusted grayish; front tarsi moderately dilated; middle tibiae 

 each bearing two macrochaetse on the front side near the middle; hind 

 tibiae subciliate; calypteres tinged with yellow; wings hyaline, faintly 

 tinged with yellow at the base and along the costa; the third vein bearing 

 two or three bristles at its base; the small cross-vein distinctly before the 

 middle of the discal cell; posterior cross-vein sinuous; bend of fourth vein 

 not appendiculate; apical cell open. 



Abdomen shining metallic black; dorsally, the first segment black; the 

 remaining segments dusted yellowish-gray pollinose, the pollen appearing 

 more dense on the sides and the basal margins of the segments; first 

 segment bearing a pair of marginal macrochaetae, the second two pairs 

 of discals and one pair of marginals; the third two pairs of discals and a 

 marginal row and the fourth segment bearing .macrochaetse on its apical 

 two-thirds; hairs of abdomen depressed. 



This species is very distinct from the other species of 

 Phorocera; the general shape of the abdomen superficially 

 resembles that of typical Carcclia blanda 0. S. 



Described from one female specimen taken at Moscow, 

 Idaho. 



Type: No. 14698, U. S. National Museum. 



HYPERECTEINA Schiiier. 



The writer having experienced considerable difficulty in 

 satisfactorily determining several specimens of this genus by 

 the aid of Coquillett's "Revision of the Tachinidse North of 

 Mexico," and his later descriptions of members of this genus, 

 recently had the good fortune to examine in the U. S. National 

 Museum all of the representatives, including many of the 

 types of this genus, described from America north of Mexico. 

 As a result of this study it was possible to arrange what is 

 hoped will serve as a satisfactory key to the described repre- 

 sentatives of this genus in America north of Mexico. 



Bezzi and Stein, in their "Katalog derPalaarktischenDipter- 

 en," recognize the genus Admotitia, described by Brauer and Ber- 

 genstamm in 1889 with Degeeria arnica Meig. (aspodomyia, 

 new species) as the type of the genus. They have placed 

 Ilyperecteina Schiner in the synonymy. The genus Hyperec- 

 teina was described by Schiner in 1861 ; as it is not preoccupied, 

 just how they arrived at this conclusion is somewhat of a 

 mystery, as they include in the genus Admontia the species 

 metopina, the type species of Hyperecteina, so designated by 

 Schiner himself. In other words, they have entirely overlooked 

 the fact that Schiner described the genus Hyperecteina with 



