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the narrow bases of the intermediate segments white pollinose; ab- 

 dominal hairs rather long and suberect. Mid tibiae bearing one 

 bristle on the front side near the middle; hind tibiae ciliate. 



Length 7 mm. 



Redescribed from the type, a male collected October 17, 1896, by 

 G. R. Pilate, Tifton, Georgia. Apparently no other specimens have 

 been found. 



Type.—C2it. No. 3598, U.S.N.M. 



ZENILLIA SETINERVIS Coquillett. 



Exorista setinervis Coquillett, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 12, 1910, p. 

 129. 



Third vein bristly to the small crossvein; abdomen black, shiny, 

 the base of the intermediate segments gray pollinose; palpi yellow; 

 mid tibiae with one bristle on the outer side near middle. 



Front in male 0.230 and in the female 0.268 of the head width; 

 face and front silvery pollinose, the latter clothed with short bristly 

 hairs; bucca one-sixth the eye height; antennae as long as face, the 

 third joint in the male five times and in the female four times the 

 second, the arista thickened on the basal one-fifth; facial ridges 

 bristly on the lowest one-third. Thorax black, gray pollinose marked 

 with four black vittae ; three dorsocentral macrochaetae present and 

 two sternopleural bristles; scutellum with three pairs of marginal 

 bristles and a very short pair of apical ones. Abdomen black and 

 polished, excepting the narrow bases of the second and third seg- 

 ments which are bluish white pruinose. No discal macrochaetae 

 present. Mid tibiae bearing a single bristle on the outside near the 

 middle ; hind tibiae not ciliate. Pulvilli brown, long in male, short in 

 female. 



Length 6 mm. 



Redescribed from the type, a male from Clarksburg, Tennessee 

 (Morgan), and a female from Raleigh, North Carolina (Sherman). 

 " Ti/pe.—Male, Cat. No. 13097, U.S.N.M. 



Subgenus Phryxe. 



ZENILLIA VULGARIS Fallen. 



Tachina vulgaris Fallen, Kongl., Svenska Veteusk. Akad. Handl., vol. 31, 

 1810, p. 275; Dipt. Sueciae, Muscides, 1820, p. 62. — Zetterstedt, Ins. 

 Lapponica, 1S38, p. 644 ; Dipt. Scandinaviae, vol. 3, 1844, p. 1139. 



Phryxe athaliae and 21 otlier species, Robineau Desvoidy, Myodaires, 1830, 

 pp. 159-170 ; more tlian 200 additional specific names with " description " 

 in Dipt, des Environs de Paris, vol. 1, 1863, pp. 329-458. According to 

 Professor Bezzi, Katalog der palaearkt. Dipt., vol. 3, 1908, tliere are 

 in these two works no fewer tlian 245 synonyms of Phryxe vulgaris. 



Exorista vulgaris Meigen, Syst. Beschi-., vol. 7, 1838, p. 255. — Coquillett, 

 Revia Tachin., 1897, p. 93.— Tothill, Canad. Ent., vol. 45, 1913, p. 71. 



