1921] Reinhard: New Species of Texas Tachinide 333 
surface covered with short erect spines; abdomen somewhat conical, 
convex on dorsal surface, first segment black, sides yellowish, second 
and third white pollinose on basal half, shining apically, sides tinged with 
bronze; second segment with a pair of dorsal and lateral marginal 
bristles, third with a row of marginals; fourth segment white pollinose 
on base, on apical half shining reddish-yellow, a row of discal mac- 
rochaetz and thickly covered with short spines on the apex. Wings 
hyaline, slightly yellowish at base, first vein with stout bristles near the 
base, bare on the apical three-fourths, second vein bristly nearly to 
small crossvein. First posterior cell widely open, terminating before 
the extreme wing tip. Calypteres white. Legs black, bristly, hind 
tibia not ciliate, middle tibia with three or four bristles on the front 
side near the middle. Length 7 mm. 
Habitat.—College Station, Texas. Described from a single 
female specimen collected by the author July 7, 1919, on the 
blossoms of Baccharis halimifolia L. 
This species agrees well with Coquillett’s description of 
H. setipennis. It differs from that species, which is the geno- 
type, as follows: Proboscis more elongate and slender; last 
abdominal segment rufous; four sternopleural macrochaete; 
and the middle tibia with three or four macrochaetz on the 
front side near the middle. 
Blepharipeza pollinosa n. sp. 
Length 6 mm. Black, gray pollinose. Head wider than thorax. 
_ Female.—Eyes with minute sparse hairs. Sides of front, upper 
portion of posterior orbits, and ocellar triangle golden pollinose. Front 
at vertex one and one-fourth times as wide as either eye, vitta about 
one-third width of front, opaque, reddish-brown. . Two pairs of orbital 
bristles, ocellars directed obliquely forward. Frontal bristles in two 
rows extending from the vertex to base of third antennal segment, 
several stout bristles and more numerous shorter erect hairs between 
frontal row and eye. Antenne five-sixths the length of face, third 
joint four times as long as second, black, second yellow at apex, first 
fuscous. Arista moderately long, microscopically pubescent, thickened 
on basal three-fourths, penultimate joint not longer than wide. Facial 
depression, cheeks, and sides of face fuscous, white pollinose; the latter 
with a few short bristles in the middle, at narrowest point less than 
one-third the width of facial depression; ridges strongly diverging below 
with three or four bristles above vibrissze, which are inserted on a level 
with the oral margin. Proboscis fleshy, short, labella large, yellowish; 
palpi normal, yellow. Cheeks moderately bristly, one-fifth as wide as 
the eye-height. Thorax gray pollinose, with four black vittee on dorsum, 
the outer pair interrupted at the suture forming a triangular spot in 
front. Three postsutural and three sternopleural macrochaete. 
Scutellum black, gray pollinose, with three pairs of long marginal, and 
a shorter cruciate apical pair of macrochaete. Abdomen short, ovate, 
