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Major Austen ^^ stated that the type is headless and unrecognizable, 

 perhaps a Ceromasia. My notes on it may be of little use, but I 

 quote them : 



Female from Martins Falls, Canada. A robust specimen now headless and 

 ■with several legs gone as well as most of the bristles. Black with yellowish 

 apex of scutellum. Postscutellum well developed. Calypters clear pale yellow. 

 Dorsocentral 4 ; sternopleural 2, 1, in almost equilateral triangle ; scutellum 

 with long and strong apicals like laterals. Abdomen with discals, gray pollinose 

 on whole dorsal surface, but the hind edges of the segments subshining in some 

 lights. Claws small. Third vein with five stout setules ; apical cross vein 

 straight, bend oblique. 



Tachina helymus Walker, List, p. 795. Coquillett (p. 126) 

 placed the species in his genus Metaohaeta. His identification of the 

 species is correct. The type is a female from Maine. Recent 

 authors have combined Mefachaeta Coquillett and PJiorichacta Ron- 

 clani in the genus Wagneria Robineau-Desvoidy, of which the type 

 species in Musca cai'honcuAa Panzer. From the key and descriptions 

 given by Stein ^^ and from a single palaearctic specimen in the Na- 

 tional Museum, I believe h^lyinus is identical with carhoiiaria Panzer 

 and should, therefore, call the species Wagneria- carhoiiaria Panzer. 



Tachina trixoides Walker, List, p. 760. Coquillett (p. 138) 

 placed the species as a synonym of MicrojjhthaJiyia disjuncta Wiede- 

 mann. This was correct, according to information that I received 

 from Major Austen while prejDaring my revision of the genus 

 MicTOflifhahna.^^ I did not see Walker's type. 



Tachina punctifera Walker, List, p. 728. Coquillett (p. 141) 

 placed this as a synonym of Feleteina tessellata Fabricius, a Euro- 

 j3ean species not now believed to occur in North America, and super- 

 seded here by Peletena iterans Walker. I saw the types of both 

 and made punctifera a synonym of iterans Walker. 



Tachina anaxias Walker, List, p. 726, Coquillett (p. 141) 

 placed this as a synonym of Peleteria rohusta Wiedemann. Curran ^* 

 has identified it as a distinct species of the same genus. The type 

 is a female from Nova Scotia, hard to identify in a group where the 

 male genitalia are so important; it certainly shows little difference 

 from the type of apicalis Walker, also a female, and from California, 

 not Colombia as published. The latter dates from 1852, and I sus- 

 pect that confusa Curran is a synonym of it. 



Tachina apicifera Walker, List, p. 718. Coquillett (p. 142) 

 erroneously made this a synonym of Archytas analis Fabricius. 

 Curran redescribed this species as Archytas vulgaris^ new species, 



61 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7, vol. 19, p. 336, 1907. 

 "Arch. f. Naturg., vol. 90, p. 123, 1924. 

 M I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 13, p. 4, 1926. 

 "Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 1925, sec. 5, p. 245. 



