102 



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2. With only three postsutiiral macrocha^tie, second and third segments 

 of abdomen bearinj^- discal inacrodueta', facial ridges hairy out- 

 side of tlie l)ristles, front of female slightly wider than either eye, 

 the sides and face whitish pollinose, third joint of antenna^ two 

 and one-half times as long as the second, arista thickened on 

 the basal third, the penultimate joint slightly longer than wide; 

 abdomen subsliining, gray pollinose, marked with dark retlect- 

 ing spots; length, nnn. Franconia, X. 11. (Ijiol . Cunt. Amo ^, 

 nipt pi n , Vol - ll^j V > ^ 1 ^ ' ^^' ' -' -'■^*^'>- P/'^nvwv^rr>\ -lfJfeiISiV— ZCnv 

 With four postsutnral niacrocha'ta', second and third segments of 

 abdomen destitute of discal macrocha^ta^, facial ridges bare out- 

 side of the bristles; length, 5 to 14 mm. Franconhi, N. H.; 

 Massacliu setts; Brooklyn, N. Y.; District of Columbia; Vir- 

 f^_Y glnia; Indiana; Illinois; Jackson, Tenn.; Tiftou, Ga.; Crescent 

 City, Fla.; Mississippi; St. Louis, Mo.; Louisiana; Texas; Colo- 

 ^"^^^' rado; Las Cruces, X. Mex., and Ciilifornia. APipteies Exot- 

 ^Vvwt-c^,^^; , iques, Supplement III, p. 209 [49]; 1847: Pltomcera. Envy- 

 lA.ei. (jaster septentrional is Walker, Lord's ^^aturalist in Vancouver 

 Island, Vol. II, p. •')-)9: 18(5(). Phorocera eihcm'dsiif=\\ WM^Um^ 

 Scudder's Luttertlies of New En inland. Vol. Ill, p. 1921; 1889. 

 Fodotaciiina i^ihrissata Brauer and Bcrgenstamni, Zweit. Ivais. 

 Mus. Wieu, V, p. ool; 1891: also i)i Hit. Euphorocera taehi- 

 nomoides Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIX, p. 112; 

 May, 1892. Phorocera lophyri Townsend, loc. cit., p. 289; De- 

 cember, 1892.) claripennis Macq. 



#- GentsPHOROCERA/Desv. % ^ — 



Shorooara DcsvQi i ly , l^ssai wii'r ]ps Myoili i ir o n; p. i:jl ! l -8 3 e. 

 BU >nr i\ .Ua Uuovuidy, uic. oit < p 1'^'? 



Pales Desvoidy, loc cit., p. 154. y\yo hf ot '>>^ «^ . )'% 0^ 

 This synonymy is given by Macquart' and repeated by Schiner;^ 



Brauer and Bergeustamm also give Pales as equivalent to Phorocera,^ 



but make no mention of the other two names: 



1. With four sternopleural and four /^wstsutural macrocha'ta^,'\)alpi 



black, second and third segments of abdomen bearing (luscal 



macrocha'tte, sides of front destitute of macrochicta' outside of 



„ the frontal bristles, except the orbital bristles of the 



^^"^^t it/t1^.ne t^-tldr(lf a^^tte as, in the female sl/ghtly 

 wider than, either eye; frontal bristles descending beMv .the 

 arista, the latter thickened on its basal third; third jdint of 

 antenn.ne in the male six, in the female four, times as longyis the 





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' Aimiilos Soc. Eut. Frauce, p. 420; 18.50. 

 -Fauna Aiistrica, Vol. I, p. 488; 18(52. 

 3Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien. VI, p. 234; 1893. 





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