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(Clerck), Acronicta acei Is (Linnaeus). It has been brought through 

 hibernation in laboratory-attacked material on Colocasia coryli (Lin- 

 naeus), Abrostola tripartita (Hufnagle), Phalera hucephala (Lin- 

 naeus), and Aorostola triplasia (Linnaeus). The records are from 

 the Bureau's former Central European Laboratory, Budapest, 

 Hungary. 



Remarks. — The description is based on an examination of a large 

 series of European material comprising over 34 males and 40 females, 

 7 of which were determined by Dr. Villeneuve. 



Adults, May to August; number per host, one to several; genera- 

 tions, two; hibernation, as larva in host larva. 



9. CARCELIA LAGOAE (Townsend), new combination 



Exorista lagoae Townsend, Ent. News, vol. 2, p. 159, 1891. 



Exorista flavirostris of authors (nee Van der Wulp). — Coqutllett, U. S. Dept. 



Agr., Div. Ent., Tech. Bull. 7, p. 100, 1897.— Reinhabd, Ent. News, vol. 33, p. 



72, 1922.— Bishopp. U. S. Dept. Agr., Circ. 288, p. 13, 1923. 

 Caroelia flavirostris of Johnson (nee Van der Wulp), Diptera of Florida, 1913. 

 Zenillia amplexa of Axdeich and Webber (uec Coquillett) partim, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mas., vol. 63, art. 17, p. 13, 1921. 



This species is more like Caroelia formosa than C. amplexa. The gen- 

 italia resembles those of C. formosa and C. diacrisiae. 



Head with front of male at narrowest 0.23 to 0.25 (in three speci- 

 mens) and in female 0.25 to 0.27 (in three specimens) of head width; 

 frontal row of seven or eight bristles in male and five to eight in 

 female, extending from junction of second and third antennal seg- 

 ments to two strong reclinate upper frontals (preverticals) ; facial 

 ridge bristly on lowest one-sixth; gena one-sixteenth or less eye 

 height; frontal orbit, face, cheek, and posterior orbit light-gray- 

 silvery pollinose; first, second, and upper portions of third segment 

 of antenna red (this varies to all black), third segment from four to 

 four and one-half times second; arista thickened on basal one-third, 

 penultimate segment short; palpus yellow. 



Thorax black covered with light-gray pollen; male with four and 



female with five narrow black mesonotal vittae, median one obsolete 



before suture in female and apparently entirely so in male; four 



ii: ural dorsccentral macrochaetae ; scutellum yellow covered with 



gray pollen, three pairs of marginal scutellars and one strong decus- 



apical pair turned backward, one pair of discal scutellars; three 



rnopleural macrochaetae; legs with tarsi black, tibiae and femora 



varying from yellow to nearly black but always concolorous; fore 



tibia with one median posterolateral bristle; midtibia with one median 



anterolateral bri He, one strong inner ventral bristle; hind tibia ciliate 



with oiie longer bristle; wing grayish hyaline, third vein with two or 



three bristles at base; squamae white. 



