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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[May, 



chusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Colorado, 

 S. Dakota and Illinois. It is found mostly in early Spring and 

 late Fall. The larva feeds on putrefying animal matter. 



I have four specimens of a Cynomyia from Greenland which I 

 refer, with a doubt, to this species. They are imperfect, but 

 seem, on the whole, a little more like C. mortuorum than ameri- 

 cana ; possibly they represent a new species. The following 

 points clearly distinguish this species from C. mortuorum : The 

 face of americana is brownish yellow, that of mortuorum golden- 

 yellow, and in the latter the yellow color extends much further 

 caudad on the bucca, viz., to or beyond the caudal border of the 



CYNOMYIA 



eye. The antennae of americana are darker in color than those 

 of mortuorum. The occipital hair (nearly the whole occiput of 

 Cynomyiae is beset thickly with soft hair and not with regularly 

 arranged bristles) is white in americana, yellow in mortuorum. 

 The hypopygium and its terminal hooks are of moderate size in 

 americana, very large in mortuorum, and on this account the 

 abdomen of mortuorum seems more elongate. The normal 

 chaetotaxy is identical, except that americana has two posterior 

 achrostical macrochaetae, mortuorum but one. 



Cynomyia eloiujnta nov. sp. Length twelve to fourteen millimeters. 

 Resembles americana so much that I shall limit my description mainly to 

 pointing out the differences between the two. Front of male one-fourth 

 the width of the head, in americana one-fifth. According to the inci- 

 dence of the light the color of the frontal vitta varies from dark brown to 



