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12, 1. c, holotype, No. 19469, U. S. Nat. Mus., TD350). 



Differs from Tachinophyto as follows : Female. Vertex 

 scarcely or well under one-third head-width. Head not so 

 triangular in profile, the vibrissa! axis longer. Front widening 

 very gradually anteriorly, the face widening more rapidly. 

 Facial depression wider, the parafacials narrower. Second 

 antennal joint only slightly elongate ; the third over three times 

 as long as second, broader and stouter. Short median discals 

 on intermediate abdominal segments, and a median marginal 

 pair on first segment. Wings not so broad, longer; costal 

 spine small ; apical cell open, ending distinctly before wing-tip ; 

 hind crossvein a little nearer to cubitus. No piercer to larvi- 

 positor. TD4470, topotype of variabilis, shows same maggots 

 as TD350. 



Male has second antennal joint very short ; third being very 

 long, about six times second. The claws are not elongate, 

 the front is about same as that of female, and there are two 

 proclinate fronto-orbitals. There are no median discals on 

 intermediate abdominal segments. These characters are drawn 

 from a specimen. Bureau Ent. No. 153°, reared by Koebele 

 in Sonoma County, California, from Carpocapsa pomonella. 

 It may be only a western subspecies of variabilis. 



The arista is thickened on basal third in both sexes, the 

 facialia are bare save for a few bristles next vibrissae, and the 

 legs are longer than in Tachinophyto. 



Note. — The original description of Tachinophyto is of the 

 male. Both sexes have two proclinate orbitals and short claws. 

 The male front is but little narrower than that of the female. 

 The facialia may be ciliate more than one-third way up, and 

 the apical cell is often open. The female is provided with a 

 piercer. These characters are drawn from two specimens 

 which I identify as Tachinophyto floridensis T., being a male 

 from southern Florida (Robertson, No. 12384), and a female 

 from the District of Columbia, July. 



Family RHODOGYNIDi© 

 Neocyptera, new genus. 



Genotype, Ocyptera dosiades Walker, 1849, List IV, 695. 



