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but w-ith the normal pubescence. Clypeus broadening below, scarcely 

 marked off from facialia; epistoma broad, strongly produced between 

 vibrissas; latter rather more removed from oral margin. Cheeks 

 less than eye-height, parafacials not as wide as clypeus. Two pro- 

 clinate and one rechnate orbitals. Proboscis and palpi longer. All 

 macrochaetae strong, those of scutellum and abdomen spinehke. 

 Pile of under parts of body and legs not long or thick, that of ab- 

 dominal tergum both long and thick. Three to four sternopleurals ; 

 four postsuturals. Bunch of erect spines on scutellum. Anal seg- 

 ment narrowed posteriorly, but distinctly though faintly emarginate. 

 Ventral plates with spine bunches. A median discal pair of spines 

 on anal segment, the margin with only a few black bristles among 

 the pile. Front tarsi more distinctly widened. 



SERVILLIOPSIS BUCCATA, new species. 



Length of body, 15 mm.; of wing, 12,75 mm. One female, Tji- 

 bodas. Mount Gede, Java, 9,000 feet (Bryant and Palmer). 



Head hght golden pollinose all over; frontalia and antennae dark 

 brown or blackish. Palpi yellow. Hairs of front mostly black; 

 those of parafacials, cheeks, and occiput yellow. Thorax blackish, 

 golden pollinose, with golden pile; scutellum rufofulvous, with same 

 pile. Abdomen blackish; the anterior borders of segments yellowish, 

 especially sides; the yellowish parts with golden pollen, the pile 

 reddish-gold. Venter more deeply blackish, the incisures narrowly 

 golden. Legs rufous; the femora black. Wings faintly smoky 

 throughout; tegulae golden-smoky. 



Holotype.—No. 20043, U.S.N.M. 



Ecliinomyia rufoanalis Macquart ^ is very distinct from this form. 

 So also is Tachina fulva Walker. ^ See Brauer.^ 



Family EXORISTIDAE. 



Genus SERICOTACHINA Townsend. 



Sericotachina Townsend, Ent. News, vol. 27, 1916, p. 178. 



Genotype.— Paratachina vulpecula Wulp, 1896, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 

 39, p. 106, pi. 2, figs. 14-16. 



Differs from Paratachina principally as follows: Palpi more elon- 

 gate. Proboscis shorter and stouter, not as long as head-height. 

 Second antennal joint over twice as long as third joint, very slender 

 on basal portion. Head, thorax, scutellum, and base of abdomen 

 thickly clothed with short yellow pile ; third and fourth segments with 

 short black pile. Macrochaetae very weak. 



1 Dipt. Kx., Suppl. 4. 2 Dipt. Saund. 3Sitz. Ak. Wiss., Wien., vol. 107, p. 490. 



