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Hunter, Pratt and Mitchell, Bull. 113, Bur. Ent., 49 (id.), 



oc. Corpus Christi, Texas. 

 Johnson, Dipt. Fla., 1913 (id.), oc. Jacksonville, Fla. 

 Parker, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxv, 60, pi. iv, f. 27; 

 pi. vii, f. 46 (Ravinia). — Conn, to Cal. ; Porto Rico, 

 Bermuda, St. Vincent. 



Male. Front broad, .288 of head (average of 

 five, — .276, .280, .292, .296, .298) ; parafrontals and 

 parafacials yellowish gray pollinose, rather glistening 

 below, the latter with a minute row of hairs; frontal 

 stripe broad and blackish; frontal bristles about 

 seven, somewhat diverging below, reaching to the 

 middle of the second antennal joint; orbital bristles 

 distinct; outer verticals wanting; antennse blackish, 

 third joint fully twice the second, reaching five-sixths 

 of the way to the vibrissa?, which are at the oral mar- 

 gin; arista plumose about halfway; palpi and pro- 

 boscis black, ordinary; bucca one-third the ej'-eheight, 

 with rather short black hairs, none pale before the 

 suture ; back of head with three rows of black hairs and 

 a few pale ones in the middle and below. 



Thorax yellowish-gray, pollinose, with three to 

 five black stripes, which are decidedly brown when 

 viewed from in front; ps dc four; ant acr well devel- 

 oped; prsc one smallish; stpl three; scutellum with 

 two pairs of marginals, one smaller pair subapical 

 and no apical. 



Abdomen gray pollinose, tessellated, with black 

 median line ; first and second segments with only lat- 

 eral bristles; third with a median marginal pair and 

 some smallish, making out a weak marginal row; fifth 

 sternite brown, diverging in the form of a wide V, 

 the tips of which stand out prominently and are 

 clothed with short black hairs. 



Hypopygium rather large; first segment black- 

 ish, pollinose, with a row of small bristles behind; 

 second segment usually red, subshining, with a few 

 bristly hairs behind; forceps yellow about halfway, 

 the tips shining black. In profile they are straight, 

 rather slender, evenly tapering to a small hook at the 

 tip; viewed from behind they are broadly divergent 



