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times as long as the second, sides of front and face bluish gray prui- 

 nose, facial ridges bristly on the lower three-fourths, cheeks about 

 one-seventh as broad as the eye height, proboscis short and rather 

 robust; thorax grayish pruinose and marked with four black vittte, 

 four pairs of postsutural dorsocentral bristles, four sternopleurals, 

 scutellum bearing four marginal pairs, the last pair directed backward; 

 abdomen polished, the last three segments except the narrow hind 

 margins thinly grayish pruinose, all with marginal, the second and 

 third also with discal, the fourth wholly covered with bristles; hind 

 tibiffi somewhat unevenly ciliate with bristles, middle tibia?, bearing- 

 three or four large ones on the outer-anterior side, front pulvilli of 

 male as long as the last tarsal joint; wings hyaline, third vein bearing- 

 two bristles near the base, first posterior cell broadly open, calypteres 

 white; length, T to 8 mm. One male and two females. 



IlaHfaf. — Franconia, New Hampshire (Mrs. A. T. Slosson); Edding- 

 ton, Maine (Dr. G. de N. Hough); and Moscow, Idaho (J. M. Aldrich). 



Type.— C'At. No. 0214, U.S.N.M.^ 



FRONTINA SETIPES, new species. 



Black, the palpi yellow; vertex one and one-fourth times as wide as 

 either eye, frontal bristles descending slightly below the arista, the 

 two upper pairs stout, reclinate, sides of front yellowish gray, the face 

 whitish gray pruinose, facial ridges bristly on the loAver two-thirds, 

 antemuv somewhat shorter than the face, the third joint three and one- 

 half times as long as the second, arista thickened on the basal third, 

 the penultimate joint slightl}^ longer than broad, cheeks one-fourth as 

 broad as the eye height, proboscis short and very robust; thorax 

 l)luish gray pruinose, marked with four black vittfe, three pairs of 

 postsutural dorsocentral bristles, three sternopleurals, scutellum bear- 

 ing four marginal pairs, the last one the smallest, cruciate, almost 

 vertical; abdomen on last three segments densely gray pruinose and 

 with darker reflecting spots, first segment and narrow hind margins of 

 the others polished black, all with marginal, the fourth also with 

 discal l)ristles; hind tibia? somewhat unevenly ciliate, middle til)iie 

 bearing two long and three short bristles on the outer-anterior side, 

 front pulvilli slightly longer than the last tarsal joint; wings hyaline, 

 third vein bearing four bristles near the base, calypteres white; length. 

 8 mm. A male specimen collected by Prof. J. M. Aldrich. 



Hah If at. — Brookings, South Dakota. 



Type. O^t. No. 6216, U.S.N.M. 



^ Phorocera parva Bigot. The type has been studied by Dr. F. Braner, who says 

 that it belongs to the genus Paradoria. The form referred to this species in my 

 Revision of the Tachinida?, page 103, will therefore require a new name, for which 

 erecta is proposed; in this species the apical pair of scutellar bristles is directed almost 

 vertically. 



Tupe.—Cat. No. 6215, U.S.N.M. 



