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Tachina japonica 11. sp. 



Length, 10 to 12 mm. Differs from larvarum as follows: More 

 deeply colored, the golden on parafrontals heavy and extending heav- 

 ily on parafacials nearly to cheek grooves in male. The pollen of 

 mesoscutum is of a distinctly brassy shade, contrasting readily and 

 abruptly in both sexes with the silvery pollen of the pleurae. In 

 larvarum the golden shade on the parafrontals is thin in both sexes 

 and does not invade the parafacials to any extent, while the pollen 

 of mesoscutum and pleurae is concolorous and wholly silvery. 



Type, No. 12621, U. S. N. M. 



Many specimens of both sexes reared from importations of 

 Porthetria received at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory from the 

 vicinity of Tokyo, Japan, 1908 (Kincaid). 



Paragermaria gen. nov. 



.Differs from Pseudogermaria as. follows: 



Cheeks about one-fourth eye-height ; parafacials hairy ; ocellar 

 bristles long, reclinate; no orbital bristles in male, female with 

 two proclinate ones; two rows of frontal bristles on each side; 

 front of male wider at vertex than one .eye, face of male as w4de 

 as both eyes ; face and front of female nearly same width, except 

 vertex which is noticeably wider than that of male; frontal 

 bristles descending below insertion of arista; vibrissae strong, 

 decussate; second antennal joint more elongate in female than 

 in male, third joint more elongate in male than in female, third 

 joint being hardly two and one-half times as long as second in 

 female and more than four times as long as second in male ; palpi 

 slender, thickened at tip; apical pair of scutellar bristles not as 

 strong as lateral pairs, but long and divergent. The intermediate 

 segments of abdomen of both sexes lack discal bristles, and first 

 segment is without medial marginal ones ; abdomen and scutellum 

 clothed with suberect bristly hairs. 



Reproductive habit, leaf-oviposition. Type, P. auUminalis 

 n. sp. 



Paragermaria autumnalis n. sp. 



Length, 9 mm. Blackish, with more or less of gray bloom. Head 

 of both sexes entirely pale brassy polHnose, except the brown frontalia 

 and antennae, the second joint of which is reddish. Apical portion of 

 scutellum, whole of apical segment of abdomen of female, tip of apical 

 segment of male, and tibiae reddish. Pleurae, scutellum, femora, 

 and all of abdomen except basal segment and more or less of posterior 

 margins of other segments with a silvery bloom showing less of brassy 

 if any than that of head. Mesoscutum with less of pollen, showing 

 four heavy black vittae and a median fifth one behind suture. 



