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and Loxostege similalis Giienee; and two additional from Pennsyl- 

 vania and Tennessee. It has been reported from New Brunswick 

 by Tothill, reared from ExqwoGth chrysorrhea Linnaeus; from 

 Quebec by Chagnon and by Winn and Beaulieu, from New Jersey 

 by Johnson and Daecke, Kansas by Tucker, Connecticut by Brit- 

 ton, and from North Carolina by Brimley. 

 ry;;e.— Female, Cat. No. 3604, U.S.N.M. 



PHOROCERA FULVICEPS Van der Wulp. 



Phorocera fulviceps Van deb Wulp, Biologia, Diptera, vol. 2, 1890, p. 80. 



Two male cotypes received b}^ courtesy of the British Museum, 

 are very close to leucaniae Coquillett. The latter, however, has no 

 discals, but occasionally one or two poorly developed, while the 

 latter has a pair on each of the intermediate segments (one bristle 

 is absent on the third segment in one specimen) : in the male there 

 is also a difference in the length of the hairs on the front, these be- 

 ing long and erect in fulviceps. 



Length. — 9 mm. 



Two males, Omilteme in Guerrero, Mexico, collected by IT. H. 

 Smith. 



Cotyjyes.—Us^QS, U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 23961. 



PHOROCERA FACIALIS Coquillett. 



Phorocera facialis Coquiixett, Revis. Tachin., 1897, p. 105. 



Sides of face below the frontals bristly for some distance; apical 

 cell closed, bucca one-half the eye height. 



Front of male 0.307—0.313 and in the female 0.425 the head width, 

 tlie sides dull gray pruinose bearing several stout bristles outside of 

 the frontal row ; sides of face below the lowest frontals bristly one- 

 third of the way to the vibrissae; sides of face gvny pruinose, the 

 ridges bristly nearly to the base of antennae ; bucca one-half the eye 

 Jieight; palpi yellow; antennae as long as the face, the first and sec- 

 ond joints usually j'cllowish, sometimes the third also, third joint in 

 both sexes six times the length of second, arista thickened on the 

 basal third, the penultimate joint short. Thorax gray pollinose, 

 marked with four black vittae; four dorsocentral macrochaetae ; 

 scutellum black, always yellowish at apex, bearing four pairs of 

 marginal bristles. Sternopleura with three bristles. Abdomen 

 wholly gray pollinose with dark reflecting spots, sometimes the sides 

 of intermediate segments are yellowish. First segment with mar- 

 ginals, the remaining ones with discal and marginal macrochaetae, 

 the abdominal hairs depressed; female without piercing ovipositor. 

 Legs black ; mid tibiae with two or more bristles on the outer front 

 side near the middle; hind tibiae subciliate. Wings hyaline, apical 

 cell closed, fourth vein beyond the bend slightly arcuate; third vein 

 with two or three bristles at its base. 



