107 



1880: Masiccni. Acha'toneKra sp. , aud Farafronfina sp., Brauer 

 and Bergeustainin in litt.) :4^.<ir('Jiij)pir<)ra^ Will. 



Front in the male at most slightly wider than, in the female one and 

 one-third times as wide as, either eye, front ])ulvilli of male 

 slightly longer than the last tarsal Joint; length, 5 to 11 mm. 

 Canada; Beverly, Mass. ; Xew Jersey; Pennsylvania; Lakeland, 

 Md.; District of Columbia; Virginia; Brookville, Ind,; Carbon- 

 dale, 111.; Missouri, and {California. (In Scudder's Butterflies 

 of New England, Vol. Ill, p. 11)23; 188*): Masicera. Achceto- 

 neura hespcrus Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. 

 Wien, V, p. 331 ; 1891. Phorocera promiscua? Towusend, Psyche, 

 Vol. YI, p. 84; May, 1801. Mcigenia u-ehfiteri Townsend, Cana- 

 dian Entomologist, Yol. XXIII, p. L'O'I ; October, 1801. Masicera 

 .sc'/</.c«ra''' Townsend, Psyche, Vol. YI, p. 187; December, 1891: 

 ■^'"T*'''^ ' from a co-type specimen received from Mr. Townsend. Masicera 



— ■ (latanarum Townsend. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XIX, p. 287; 

 December, 1892. Tachina anonyma Eiley MS.: from the in'o- 

 posedtype specimen. Acluctoneiira sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm 

 in litt. Prosopart sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm in litt. Hemi- 

 masicera sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm /;* litt.) . . . .frenchU Will. 

 6. Abdomen in both sexes yellow on sides of the third segment, second 

 segment in the male bearing a marginal pair of macrochicta', or 

 else his front pulvilli only three-fourths as long as the last tar- 

 sal joint 7. 



Abdomen of the female black, at most with a yellow spot each side 

 of the second segment, this segment in both sexes destitute of 

 a marginal pair of macroch;ietie, front pulvilli of male slightly 

 longer than the last tarsal joint, third joint of antenuiie of male 

 ,/a ^ from two and three-fourths to Ave, in the female from two and 

 ^'outt£>^A three-fourths to three and one-third, times as long as the second; 

 ".),vs^- length, G to 11 mm. Toronto, Canada; Beverly, Mass.; Brook- 

 lyn, X. Y. ; District of Columbia; Georgia; Charlotte Harbor, 

 Florida; Mississippi; Brazoria, Tex.; Los Angeles, Cal., and 

 Venezuela, South America. (Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XI, 

 J). 102; 1879: Tachina: from a co type specimen. Tachina fra- 

 terna Comstock, Keport Commissioner Agric. for 1879, p. 303; 

 1880, Prosopa^a sp. lirauer and Bergenstamm in litt. Thysan- \ 



omyia sp, Brauer and Bergenstamm in litt.) aleticv Riley, u 



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' This species is usually credited to Riley, but lie never described it so far as I ami 

 aware. CI . j.^tc^-^^. 



-In Psyche for .June, 1893, page 467, Mr. Townsend reports having received from >,<^^. 

 Professor Forbes two Tachina flies bred "from pupa^ of Eiichwies egle. Breeding 

 cage, May 4, 1880." One of these he refers to Masicera schiziira' and the other to 

 Prospherifsa promisciin, api)arently without suspecting that both of them belonged 

 to one and the same species. ^ 



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