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Family DoLiCHOPODiDiE. 

 I'silopodinus inornatus Aid. July. (Det. by D. W. Coquillett.) 



sipho Say. July, in oats field; August. 

 Diaphorus leucostoma Lw. July. 



Nothosympycnus nodatus Lw. October; October, at night, by sweeping; 

 November, in field cage with oats seedlings. All female speci- 

 mens, which are difficult to determine, but they agreed with 

 authentic examples. 

 Dolichopus bifractus Lw. October, twilight. 



Paraclius (Pelastoneurus) altemans Lw. September, at night, taken at 

 trap light. (Det. by D. W. Coquillett.) 

 pumilio Lw. July. Det. by J. M. Aldrich, who remarked: "It is 

 rare in collections, and I have not seen the male.") 

 Pelastoneurus vagans Lw. May, at dusk, in oats field. 



Family Empidid^. 

 Drapetis latipennis Mel. May. 

 Hernerodromia empiformis Say. July. (Det. by D. W. Coquillett.) 



Family Pipunculid^. 

 Pipunculus subvirescens Lw. July in corn field. 



Family Syrphid^e. 

 Microdon (Oniegasyrphus) baliopertus Lw. October. 

 Chry so g aster nitida Wd. July. 

 Baccha clavata Fab. July and September. 

 Platychirus quadratus Say. October. 

 Syrphus americanus Wd. October, December. 

 Allograpta obliqua Say. July. 



Mesogramma marginata Say. July; July in oats field, wheat stubble 

 and alfalfa, August; and October. 



polita Say. July; July in oats field; August; and September. 

 Sphserophoria cylindrica Say. October. 

 Eristalis latifrons Lw. September. 



transversns Wd. October. 

 Syritta pipiens L. September. 



Family Tachinid^. 



Cistogaster immaculata Macq. July; October; and October, twilight. 



Phorantha occidentis Wk. July, in oats stubble. 



Paradmontia brevis Coq. October. (Det. by D. W. Coquillett.) 



Phasmophaga meridionalis Town.^^ July, in oats stubble field. (Type.) 



Leucostoma atra Town. October twilight. (Det. verified by D. W. Co- 

 quillett.) 

 7i.eomexica7ia Town. October, twilight. (Det. by C. H. T. Town- 

 send.) 



CEstrophasia ochracea Bigot. September; September, at night, taken at 

 trap light. (Det. by C. H. T. Townsend.) 



Beskia xlops Wk. July, in corn and wheat-stubble fields, and at random. 



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