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seem compelled to combine our genera in one group with Banm- 

 haueria, etc., and if that genus proves to have the leaf-oviposition 

 habit this arrangement will be duly substantiated. 



The European genus Pexopsis B. B (type tibialis Meig.) seems 

 to form with Pseudatractocera a connection between the Baum- 

 haueriinae and the Masiceratinae. Like Pseudatractocera it 

 lacks orbital bristles in the male, but resembles the Baum- 

 haueriinae in the weight of its other characters. 



Cyclotaphrys gen. no v. 



This genus differs from Tachina (larvarum) as follows: Facialia 

 not at all ciliate; second aristal joint elongate; parafrontals of 

 male with fine hairs outside frontal row; apical cell closed in 

 border before wingtip; second antennal joint moderately elongate; 

 vibrissae not strong, inserted near oral margin. 



The eyes are thinly short-hairy; parafacials moderately wide, 

 of even width; palpi elongate, curved, subcylindrical, a little 

 thickened on apical half; apical scutellar bristles suberect and 

 decussate; ovipositor very long and large; hind tibiae in both 

 sexes quite thickly short-ciliate, with two stronger bristles near 

 middle; fourth vein with wrinkle with bend. Claws of male 

 elongate. Two strong and one weak sternopleural bristles; four 

 postsutural bristles. 



In the last-stage maggot and puparium the middle slit of 

 each stigma is shortened and pushed outward at lower end so as 

 to make the three slits appear somewhat like an irregular circle. 

 The slits are sometimes very crooked and abruptly bent. 



Reproductive habit, supracutaneous host-oviposition. Type, 

 C. anser n. sp. 



Cyclotaphrys anser n. sp. 



Length 10 to 12 mm. Blackish, covered with silvery bloom. 

 Parafacials wholly silvery-white, parafrontals with very faint tinge of 

 golden in both sexes; third antennal joint three times as long as 

 second; palpi yellow; sides and tip of abdomen of male reddish, tip of 

 abdomen of female reddish. 



First abdominal segment and apical borders of second and third 

 segments more or less shining black. The species deposits a golden- 

 yellow egg. 



Type, No. 12620, U. S. N. M. 



Numerous specimens reared from importations of Eiiproctis 

 chrysorrhoea received at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory from 

 Simferopol, Russia (Mokchetsky). 



