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1830: Tachina. Tachina mvicla Harris, E-ept. lusects Mass. lujiui- 

 ous to Vegetation, p. 012; 1841. Hystricia testacea Macquart, Dipteres 

 Exotiques, Vol. TI, Part III, p. 201 [14] ; 1842. Tachina finitima Walker, 

 List of Dii)teroiis Insects, Part IV, j). 707; 1849. Hystricia fulvida 

 Bigot, Bulletin Soc. Ent. Frauce, j). cvi; 1888. Bomhyliomyia ahruptO' 

 Wied., Brauer and Bergenstaraui in litt.) ahrupta Wied. 



Genus DEJEANIA Desv. 



Dejeania Desvoidy, Essai snr les Myodaires, p. 33; 1830. 



Our single species is yellow, tlie third joint of anteunte, arista, pro- 

 boscis, dorsum of tLorax, portions of tlie pleura and usually a dorsal 

 row of spots on the abdomen, black; four postsutural and two sterno- 

 l)leural niacrochaitai; front tarsi of male not ciliate on the side with 

 short bristles, those of the female slightly dilated on the last four 

 joints; length, 13 to 15 mm, Colorado. (Western Diptera, p. 343; 

 April 30, 1877. Dejeania sp. non eorpnienta Wied.,' Brauer and Bergen- 

 stamm in litt.) vexatrix O. S. 



Genus PARADEJEANIA Br. and Berg. 



raradejeania Brauer aud Bergenstanmi, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wieu, YI, p. 147; 1893. 



Our single species is yellow, the front, antennae, proboscis, occiput, 

 thorax except the hind margin, legs, and sometimes a dorsal vitta or 

 row of spots and the fourth segment of the abdomen, black; wings 

 smoky gray, calypteres yellow; four postsutural and three sternopleu- 

 ral macrochpetai; length, 16 to 18 mm. Manitou and Colorado Springs, 

 Colo., and Santa Cruz and San Diego counties, Cal. (Neue Exot. Dip- 

 teren, p. 80 (137) ; 18G7 : Dejeania. Jurinia rutiUoides Jaen., Brauer and 

 Bergenstamm in litt.) rutiUoides Jaen. 



Genus JURINIA Desv. 



Jurinia Des^'oidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 34; 1830. 



Our single species has the thorax blue-black, lightly gray pollinose 

 on the front half, four postsutural and three sternopleural macrochietaj; 

 scutellum and abdomen reddish, aud having a slight violaceous reflec- 

 tion, calypteres and bases of the wings brown; length, 13 to 18 mm. 

 West Virginia; Cumberland Gap, Ky. ; Georgia; Georgiaua and Lake 



'Oaten Sacken states, on page 256 of his well known Catalogue of North American 

 ])il)tera, that after examining the type of Tachina eorpnienta Wied. from Mexico he 

 reached the couclusion that it belongs to the same species as his Dejeania vexatrix. 

 In this, however, he was evidently iu error, since Schiuer, who also had access to 

 Wiedemann's type of eorjiul ent a, states in the Reise der Novara, Part Diptera, page 

 337, that in this species the front tarsi of the male have long bristly hairs on the 

 inner side, which is not at all the case with vexatrix. Moreover, Brauer and Bergen- 

 Btamm have compared our specimens of rexatrix with Wiedemann's type of corpu- 

 Icnta, and pronounce them specifically distinct. 



