87 



of in'iority conii)el.s us to adopt the oldest uaiue. Our species have 

 three postsiitural aud tliree steniopleural maciocha'ta'; front tarsi of 

 female as broad as the apex p£_ the front tibia-, in the male much 

 narrower: ^^^ ^^^^ 



Cheeks bearing black niacrocha'ta' iu thecenters^^frontal vitta black 

 or dark bro\vi?,/iHale (tt'.stitute (4f orbital brisFles, his 'genitalia at 



fourth abdominal seg- 

 bont nl'uny 6 f juapo ; 



most j)rqjecting one-hfth the length of the 

 ment beyond the latter, ninu" oroV . fjVOin 



length, 11 mm. White Monntains, New llam]:)shire; Beverly, 

 Mass., and .Vustria. Two males and one female from Austria 

 received from Brauer and Bergenstamm and by them named 

 Mlcroimlpus hccmorrhoidalls Fall, and Micropalpus pudicus Roud., 

 Imt both uame » are evidently wrong , sim^c th e mal e of hn'mo r— 

 rholihilln i>i pi-o YJdf^d wJ lli iHliitiil bn s t h^s ^ i iud p u f Jicu f! Inin nf^ 

 b lack maoroohiotie on the centci'of the checks. - (System. Bescli. /, ^ ^ 

 Kur. Zweif, Insekten. Yo]. IV, ]). 201 ; 1 S24 : Tachina.) . pioUh 'Meig. "^KU^EHI^ 

 Clieeks destitute of black nuicrocha'ta' near the centers, frontal vitta ^^>\ 

 light yellowAiuale i)rovnlcd with two pairs ot orbital bristles, his 

 genitalia projecting noai ' ly hall tne length of the fourth abdom- 

 inal segment beyond the latter, hind crossveiu nearly straight; 

 length, to 12 mm. London, Canada; Maryland; District of 

 Columbia; Texas; Santa Fe, N. Mex.; (7alifornia,^alKl Pullman, 

 V/ash. (Kongl. Svenska. Vetensk. Akad. Handlinger, Vol. ^ 

 XXXI; ISIO: Tachina. Tachina fnhjeus^'Me'igeu, System. Jjesch. Qrot^e , 

 Eur. Zweitl. Insekten, Vol. IV, p. 259; 1824. TAnnwmya herackvi ^J- 



Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p, 53; 1830. Limuvmya analis 

 Desvoidy, loc. cit., ji. 54, Linnwrnya dlstincta Desvoidy, loc. cit. (/ ' ^ *^i^C 

 Linna'mya a'stivaUs Desvoidy, loc. cit. Limuvmya borealis Des- <^. v~^ 

 voidy, loc. cit. Marshamia analis Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 58. Mar- 

 shami(( niijripcH Desvoidy, loc. cit. Micropalxms piceus Macquart, 

 Hist. Xatur. Insectes, Dipteres, Vol. II, p. 84; 1S35. Micropal- 



pus sp., Brauer and Bergenstainm in litt.) comta, Fallen. 



^ Genus NEMOR^A Desv. Q^ 



610. 



iVe»»io»Ym Desvoidy, Essai 8ur lfi8 Myodiiircs, p. 70; 1830. L \\ \ .<- k^ci-^.S ->-tordff'*de.^^^ J 



imi'tpalpi, and fourth abdominal (TCe^ "'• 



Our ninglo ' species is black, the antenmc(palpi,and fourth abdominal vC^ 



segment ex<;ept its extreme apex, yellow; three postsutural and three F*"*^ Jj' 



. • . ' t 



' Meigen did not recognize comta, and therefore Tinkuowingly redescribed it under x a. •" Jit . 

 the name offiiltjcns; this was suspected by Zetterstedt (Dipt. Scand., Vol. Ill, p. 1097 ; 

 1K44) and given as certain by Koudani (Dipt. Ital. Prod., Vol. Ill, p. 70; 1859). The 

 coniliisnt' Sehiner, Fanna Anstriaca, ^'<)l. I, p. 129, is not that species, bnt a color variety 

 of hirmoriho'ulaUH; the siiecies he describes under /«/f/eHS is the true comtus. In the 

 Anuales Soc I'-nt. Franco for ISll, i)ago 31, Desvoidy acknowledges that his Liinui- 

 iiii/d htracld i, analis, and <rs1ivuUs lieh)ng to one species, and in tlio same serial for 

 1815, page. 271, Maccjuart adds horealis to this list and refers them to fiilgens. Tire 

 name of Micropalpiis piceun was proposed l>y Ma<(inart to take the place of Marshamia 

 analis Desvoidy. The wiiter is responsible for tiie syuonjiny of ^xccms, rnsiJMc/a aud 

 uiijripes. 



