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C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 
decussate. Abdomen elongate oval, vaulted, first segment not ab- 
breviated, rather elongated ; macrocbiette of abdomen all marginal, 
on segments one to four. Legs rather stout and somewhat elongate, 
tarsal joints very short in proportion, excei)t metatarsi, which are 
strongly elongate. Wings broad, rather short, with costal spine, 
third vein with a few bristles at base ; apical cell ending at tij) of 
wing, closed in the margin ; curvature of foui-th vein rounded, with 
out stump or wrinkle ; posterior cross-vein perfectly straight, meeting 
fourth vein at a right angle, and nearer to the bow of the latter than 
to the small cross-vein ; 9 unknown. Type, E. polita n. sp. 
This genus is near Beskia, but the proboscis is curved backward 
at tip, instead of forward, and the third joint of antennae is not 
widened and truncate at apex. 
Epigriiiiyia polita n. sp. % .— Black, wings fuscous. Eyes dark brown ; 
frontal vitta wide, velvety black, pronged on each side of ocelli, the front on 
sides silvery; face and cheeks silvery white; anteniife black, first two joints 
with some black bristles, arista black ; proboscis and palpi black ; occiput cine- 
reous with some short black bristles, and a fringe of same on orbital margins. 
Thorax and scutellum black, shining, faintly cinereous pollinose, covered with 
short hairs and posteriorly directed bristles; humeri and pleurie silvery, with 
the usual bristles. Abdomen black, shining, covered with short, black, appressed 
hairs, ba.ses of segments narrowly, faintly silvery in some lights; first, second 
and third segments each with a lateral macrochffita and a median pair; fourth 
•segment with six macrochgette ; genitalia protruded. Legs black, hairy ; coxae 
and femora with bristles, tibiae vvith some short macrochaetse. except front jjair ; 
claws and pulvilli slightly elongate, nearly as long as last tarsal joint, front ones 
longest. Wings fuscous, darkest at base and on costa; tegulae white, borders 
(‘.oncolorous ; halteres fuscous. Length 4 mm. ; of wing 3.5 mm. 
De.scribed from one specimen, collected June 1st on flowers of a 
ilaisy. Dixie Landing, Va. (District of Columbia.) 
Celatoria crawii Coquillett, Ins. Life, ii, 2o5-36. 
This new genus and species is described from California, and was 
Itred from adults of Diabrotica soror. It is described as having five 
abdominal segments, wdiich would properly exclude it from the Tach- 
inidte sens, str., and it would fall in the Phaniidte by its other char- 
acters. The first or basal segment is, however, as long as the second, 
and the so-called fifth segment is probably not a segment properly 
speaking, but merely the more or less concealed caudal joint or hy- 
poiyygium to be found in many Tachinidte s. sti‘. In the OcyjJeridm 
and Phaniidm, as \vell as in the Phasiidte, the first segment is much 
shorter than the second, and it is at the ba.'ie of the abdomen that 
the additional segment must be looked for. 
