SOME NEW SPECIES OF TEXAS TACHINIDAE 
(DIPTERA) 
By H. J. REINHARD, 
Entomologist, Texas Experiment Station, College Station, Texas. 
This paper includes the descriptions of six new species of 
Tachinide. Most of these were collected in the vicinity of 
College Station. The accompanying drawings were prepared 
by the writer to supplement the descriptions and assist in the 
recognition of the proposed new species. All type specimens 
are for the time being retained in the writer’s collection. Grate- 
ful acknowledgment is here made to Dr. Herbert Osborn for 
helpful suggestions and to W. R. Walton for supplying important 
references. 
Ernestia frioensis n. sp. 
Male.—General color gray. Eyes distinctly hairy. Head slightly 
broader than thorax, diameter at the vibrissze nearly as long as at base 
of antenne. Front at narrowest point as wide as either eye. Frontal 
bristles in two rows, descending to the base of third antennal joint; 
the three posterior bristles in each row robust, and directed posteriorly. 
Gene, facial depression and sides of face gray pollinose. The pollen 
on sides of the front, ocellar triangle, and upper portion of the posterior 
orbits tinged lightly with yellow. Frontal vitta entire, rather broad, 
opaque, black. Ocellar bristles robust, directed obliquely forward. 
Numerous long bristly hairs on ocellar triangle, and on front between 
the eyes and frontal rows, and extending downward below the lowest 
frontals to almost the middle of the face. Antenne nearly as long as 
the face, first two joints yellow, third joint black, the latter nearly 
four times as long as second joint. Arista slender, a little longer than 
third antennal joint, microscopically pubescent, thickened on basal 
half, penultimate joint not longer than broad. Facial depression rather 
deep, distinctly carinate; ridges diverging but little below, bristly on 
lowest one-fourth. Sides of face on lower half bare, at narrowest point 
one-half as wide as the facial depression.* Vibrissce inserted on a level 
with front border of oral margin. Proboscis short and fleshy; labella 
large. Palpi rather long, but little thickened distally, yellow. Cheeks 
covered on lower two-thirds with bristly hairs, one-half as broad as 
* According to Coquillett’s key—Rev. of Tach. p. 36, the genus Ernestia 
(Panzeria) is characterized by having the sides of the face at the narrowest part, 
less than one-third as wide as the median depression. A series of specimens of 
Ernestia radicum Fabr. from Ohio, New Mexico, and Kansas, all show the width 
of face one-third or more, as wide as the facial depression. 
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