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Melrose Higlilands collection,^ females of species near panaetius bred 

 by J. V. Schaffner, Jr., et al, from GraptoUtha antermata Walker 

 G. M. L. 12161 Tl) ; Orthosia hibisci Guene^, form imciens Walker 

 (G. M. L. 12164 K14) ; Catocala sp. (G. M. L. 11707 M3) ; noctuid 

 (G. M. L. 11707 J8) ; Acronycta hetulae Riley (G. M. L. 11707 M34). 



TACHINOMYIA APICATA Curran 



Figure 17, e, g, h 



Tachinomyia apicata Curran, Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, ser. 3, vol. 20, sect. 5, 

 p. 171, fig. 16, 1926. 



The species is readily recognized by the form of the anal forceps 

 (fig. 17, e) and the conspicuous flange at the base of the fifth sternite 

 (fig. 17, 7i). To these characters may be added the follovv^ng: Last 

 abdominal segment chalky white pollinose with narrow apical border 

 of black, red, or reddish black; fourth sternite brownish, transversely 

 flattened, not turned upward; second genital segment orange-red, 

 rarely blackish; four dorsocentral bristles; posterior preintraalar bris- 

 tle usually present, sometimes weak or wanting; first two segments 

 of antenna, base of third, and apex of scutellum reddish ; face and 

 front silvery gray with yellowish cast of variable shades; para- 

 f acialia at narrowest part compared with distance between vibrissae 

 as 10.8 : 20.5 (average of six); cheeks one-third of eye height; 

 facial ridges bristly one-half to two-thirds way to antennae; frontals 

 varying from 7 to 10; palpi gradually thickened toward tip; orbital 

 hairs gray or yellowish gray. Length, 10-20 mm. 



Female. — Essentially like male except more robust in form; last 

 abdominal segment wholly chalky white-poUinose, posterior border 

 fringed with closely set, short bristles of equal length ; two pairs of 

 orbital bristles and a wider front. 



Matenal examined. — Sixty-nine males and 50 females in the Melrose 

 Highlands laboratory collection taken during May and June from 

 localities in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Also 7 males and 15 

 females in the United States National Museum from Ottawa, Canada, 

 the District of Columbia, and the following States : New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, and Missouri. 



Host. — Unknown. 



TACHINOMYIA FLORIDENSIS Townsend 



Tachinomyia floridensis Townsend, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc, vol. 19, p. 97, 1892. 



The species was described from one specimen, a male, from Florida 



(C. W. Jolmson). Coquillett (1897, p. 82) included -fiondensis as 



'The Melrose Higlilands collection of Tachinidae is now housed in the Forest Insect 

 Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine at New Haven, Conn. 



