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College, Mississippi, April 23, 1921, and two females. Meridian, 

 Mississippi, Sept. 3, 1922 (H. W. Allen); one female. White Springs, 

 Florida, Oct. 17 (C. H. T. Town sen d) ; one female labeled "Parker 

 Note no. 45," from Brookland, District of Columbia. 



The type not seen and its present location not known to me. 

 Marquart describes the species as having the sides of the abdomen 

 rufous, and the palpi black, a combination of characters present in the 

 above specimens but not found in any of the other North American 

 species known to me. This common species has been long confused 

 with leucocephala and campestris. In his Revision of the Tachinidae, 

 Coquillett considers it synonymous with the former. ^^ Somewhat 

 later, Thompson ^^ pointed out characters distinguishing it from 

 leucocephala but failed to distinguish lateralis and campestris. 



The known range of lateralis covers a large ]:>art of the eastern 

 United States from New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Indiana, and 

 eastern Kansas to Mississippi and northern Florida. It has also 

 been reported in Quebec. ^'^ Adults of this species occur quite abun- 

 dantly in sunlit spots, on the foliage of low shrubs and herbaceous 

 plants, in open deciduous forest, or fl.ying about just above the ground 

 covering of dead leaves. It has also been taken, with other Milto- 

 gramminae, in sandy spots in open grassy pasture. Nathan Banks 

 reports having collected it frequently feeding on honeydew on the 

 dead leaves and low foliage under tulip tree, and the writer has taken 

 it under the same conditions. 



METOPIA SINIPALPIS, new species 



Male. — ^Front at narrowest 0.33 of the head width (measurements 

 of five 0.29, 0.33, 0.34, 0.35, 0.36); frontal vitta black, poUinose 

 anteriorly, with sides parallel except near base of antennae, at lowest 

 orbitals three to four times as wide as either parafrontal; parafrontals 

 somewhat golden pollinose, with dark reflections when viewed from 

 the front; nine to eleven bristles in the frontal row which extends 

 to slightly below base of second antenna! joint; a few black bristly 

 hairs on parafrontals, more abundant at the extreme front, not 

 extending below the upper half of the parafacials; vibrissae level 

 with front edge of oral margin; facial ridges with three small bristles 

 on the lowest fourth; antenna black, extending to less than length of its 

 second joint above front edge of oral margin, third joint three or 

 four times as long as the second; arista thickened on basal one-fourth; 

 parafacials with a row of macrochaetae near the facial ridges, which 

 extend from the base of the third antennal joint to level of the upper- 

 most bristle of the facial ridge; in profile, bucca scarcely one-twelfth 

 eye height; proboscis scarcely one-half head height; palpi lacking, 



81 U. S. Bur. Ent. Tech. Ser., No. 7, p. 127, 1897. s' Ent. Soc. Ont. Kept., 1922, p. C9. 



32 Canad. Ent., vol. 43, p. 313, 1911. 



