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13. Parafrontals entirely poUiuose, yellow in ground color at least 



on upper part 14. 



Parafrontals shining black ; scutellum black, with three mar- 

 ginal bristles ; third antennal segment but slightly longer than 

 second; cheek three-fourths the eye height (Mexico). 



(13) fucata (Van der Wulp). 



14. Three sternopleural bristles 15. 



Four sternopleurals ; inner forceps of male genitalia laterally 



compressed at base and unusually narrow (California). 



(14) beameri, new species. 



15. Third antennal segment largely black ; front pulvilli of male 



normally elongate 16. 



Antennae entirely bright yellow ; front pulvilli of male small 

 hardly half entire length of apical tarsal segment (Arizona). 



(8) flavicornis, new species. 



16. Parafrontals thinly pollinose with yellow ground color dis- 



tinctly apparent 17. 



Parafrontals with dense gray pollen obscuring ground color, 

 which is usually blackish except near vertex ; scutellum red, 

 with four marginal bristles ; abdomen broadly red on sides 

 in male, intermediate segments black in female with fourth 

 wholly red and contrasting sharply with preceding ones 

 (United States, Canada) (10) contig'ua, new species. 



17. Scutellum with four marginal bristles of unequal size ; para- 



facial bearing two macrochaetae on lower part ; cheek 



sparsely clothed with fine black hairs (11) hirsuta (Townsend). 



Scutellum with three marginal bristles ; parafacial bearing only 

 one stout bristle ; cheek at middle with three or four moder- 

 ately large bristles and a few scattered short hairs (Peru). 



(12) andina (Townsend). 



(1) CUPHOCERA MISCELLI (Coquillett) 



Tric'hophora miscelli Coqutixett, Revision of the Tachinidae of America, p. 139, 



1897. — Aldrich, Catalogue of North American Diptera, p. 483, 1905. 

 Spanipalpus miscelli Townsend, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 51, p. 110, 1908. 



Pleura clothed with i^ale hairs; ocellar bristles well developed; 

 scutellum with only two lateral bristles ; palpi absent. 



Female. — Front wide, at vertex 0.41 of the head width in the one 

 specimen; parafrontals thinly gray pollinose; median stripe yellow, 

 about as wide as one parafrontal ; verticals two pairs, large, inner ones 

 decussate; orbitals two pairs, proclinate; frontals about eight in a 

 single row, Avhich diverges toward the eye on parafacial, descending 

 almost to level with apex of second antennal segment, uppermost two 

 or three bristles reclinate; antennae red, third segment broadened 

 apically, the anterior edge straight, about equal the length of second ; 

 arista thickened on proximal two-thirds, penultimate segment about 

 one-fourth as long as the third; face silvery, somewhat bulging at 

 middle, in profile concave below the middle, the front edge of mouth 



