290 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



My specimen agrees perfectly with Wiedemann's description (Aus. 

 Zw., II, 621). It differs markedly, as does also Wiedemann's description, 

 from P. wiedemanni, as described by Bellardi. I therefore believe that 

 Bellardi was in error in identifying his species with Wiedemann's. P. 

 tepicana differs as follows from Bellardi's description of wiedemanni : 



Ç. — Length, 12^ mm.; proboscis, hardly 3)^ mm. Front brownish- 

 yellow pollinose, first two antennal joints light brownish yellow, third 

 wholly reddish yellow, apex not fuscous. Apical annulus elongate, narrow 

 and pointed, hardly half length of rest of third joint. Third joint is 

 swollen at base, but flattened, and the annuli are strongly contiguous. 

 Face brownish-yellow pollinose. Palpi not unusually elongate, last joint 

 about as long as third antennal joint, flattened and curved, but pointed at 

 tip. The palpi and the six lancet-like organs are clear reddish yellow. 

 There are four faint lines apparent on thorax, distinguished from the 

 fuscous-yellow pollinose surface by being more thickly pollinose.. Abdomen 

 brownish yellow, first segment black under scutellum, from which a black 

 median vitta extends back to fifth segment (subobsolete for a short distance 

 on third segment in my specimen). Third, and especially fourth and fifth 

 segments tinged with brownish, due to age of specimen no doubt. First 

 two segments with yellowish hair only ; third with black hair on anterior 

 two-thirds and yellow hair on posterior one-third ; fourth and fifth (these 

 segments are short) with black hair anteriorly, and yellow hair behind, 

 giving the hind border of abdomen a good fringe of yellow hair. Femora 

 blackish, rest of legs wholly orange-yellow, with front femora distally 

 tinged with same colour. Wings tinged with fuscous-yellow, the extreme 

 base blackish brown. All else as in Bellardi's description. 



This species will be distinguished at once by the smaller size, shorter 

 proboscis, black femora, and the median abdominal vitta and black hair 

 of third to fifth abdominal segments. 



15. Tabanus punctifer O. S. 



Mesa Verde, L. Cal. One ? , Oct., 1893 (Eisen). 



ASILID/E. 



2 1. Proctacanthus arfio To\yns. 



San José del Cabo. Four ^ s and seven ^^ s, Sept. One of the S s 

 measures 33 mm. 



22. Eccritosia amphinome Walk. 



Syn. Prodacanthus zamon Towns. (Section I, No. 22). 



San Jose' del Cabo. Twenty cf s and eleven 9 s, Sept. Four of the 



