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Female (allotype). — Front 0.31; six and nine frontal bristles; third 

 segment of antenna three times second; facial ridge bristly on the 

 lowest one-third. Midtibia with one small bristle above the one 

 strong median anterolateral bristle. Pollen of the abdomen with a 

 tawny tinge. 



The two male paratypes differ but slightly from the type; front 

 0.2G and 0.27 ; frontal bristles seven to nine in number ; in one, facial 

 ridge bristly only one-third; third segment of antenna four and 

 one-half times the second. 



Length 7 mm. 



Type locality. — Exeter, Calif. 



Type.—Mzle, U.S.N.M. No. 54133. 



Host. — Desmia funeralis Hiibner 4. 



Remarks. — Material examined consisted of four specimens reared 

 from Desmia. funeralis pupa ; type and one male paratype, October 4, 

 1936; allotype and one male paratype, October 23, 1936. 



7. ZENILLIA VIRILIS Aldrich and Webber 



Exorista Wanda of Coquillett (nee Osten Sacken), U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent.,. 



Tech. Bull. 7, p. 92, p. 13 (partim), 1897.— Howard and Fiske, U. S. Dept. 



Agr., Bur. Ent., Bull. 91, pp. 90, 140-142, 1911. 

 Eusisuropa blanda of Smith (nee Osten Sacken), Catalogue of New Jersey 



insects, p. 779, 1909. 

 Zenillia blanda virilis Aldrich and Werber, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, 



art. 17, pp. 37-40, 1924.— Johnson, List of New England Diptera p. 197, 1925. 

 Zenillia virilis Aldrich and Webber, Sellers, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 23, 



pp. 5G9-576, 1930. — Schaffner and Griswold, U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Publ. 



188, p. 113, 1934. 



Coquillett considered this species to be Exorista blanda Osten 

 Sacken. Aldrich and Webber were only able to separate the males 

 of Zenillia blanda and Z. virilis. The identity of the two species 

 was discussed by the writer in the Annals of the Entomological So- 

 ciety of America in 1930. 



Type locality. — Rye, N. Y. 



Distribution. — Maine 9, New 7 Hampshire 2, Massachusetts 9, Con- 

 necticut 4, Rhode Island 1, New York 3, New 7 Jersey 6, Pennsylvania 

 1, Maryland 2, Virginia 2, Illinois 1, Kansas 1, Colorado 1, New 

 Mexico 2, Mexico 3. Published records not duplicated above : Massa- 

 chusetts 3 (Howard and Fiske), New Hampshire (Coquillett), Penn- 

 sylvania (Coquillett). 

 ' Type.— Male, U.S.N.M. No. 25698. 



Hosts. — Papaipema harrisii (Grote) 1, Ennomos subsignarius 

 (Hiibner) l,Porthetriadispar (Linnaeus) 8, Danaus plexippus (Lin- 

 naeus) 1, Simyra henrici (Grote) 1, Acronicta dactylina (Grote) 1, 

 A. impressa Walker 3, A. grisea Walker 1. A. leporina vulpina 



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