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all except first segment entirely gray pollinose, with dark reflecting 
spots on dorsum; thickly covered with suberect spines. First and 
second segments with a pair of dorsal and lateral marginal macrochaetz, 
third with a marginal row, fourth segment covered with irregular rows 
of macrochaetz. Wings hyaline. Costal spine minute. Third vein 
with two bristles at base. First posterior cell narrowly open, ending 
shortly before wing tip. Fourth vein beyond bend nearly straight, 
without a stump or fold. Hind crossvein nearly straight, the posterior 
end at less than one-third the distance from bend to small crossvein. 
Calypteres white, bordered with faint yellow. Legs black, hind tibia 
evenly ciliate outwardly, middle tibia with a single stout macrochaeta 
on the front side near the middle. 
Male.—Differs from female as follows: Front narrower, at vertex 
as wide as either eye, no orbital bristles, front pulvilli as long as the 
tarsal joint, hind crossvein S shaped and posterior end at one-third the 
distance from bend to small crossvein. 
Habitat.—College Station, Texas. Described from one 
female specimen (the type), collected May 25, 1920, and one 
male specimen collected June 12, 1919, by the author. 
This species runs to Blepharipeza, according to Coquillett’s 
key—Revis. Tachinid, p. 35. Superficially it is strikingly 
unlike any species of this genus which the writer has seen. 
It is smaller, more densely pollinose, and the bristles of the 
scutellum and abdomen are weaker and less numerous. In the 
absence of sufficient comparative material it seems desirable to 
provisionally place the species in Blepharipeza, until reliable 
characters are obtained which will justify the erection of a new 
genus for the reception of this species. 
Chaetoplagia modesta n. sp. 
Female.—Black, silvery pollinose, head obtusely conical. Front 
at vertex one and one-half times as wide as either eye, white pollinose, 
two rows of frontal bristles extending almost to base of third antennal 
segment, directed inward and converging towards base of antennz; an 
irregular row of weaker bristles and numerous hairs between the frontal 
row and eye. Two pairs orbital bristles present; ocellar bristles 
diverging strongly and directed forward. Facial depression narrow and 
deep, ridges nearly parallel, with three or four bristles at base above 
vibrissee. Antennz nearly as long as face, black except second joint, 
which is brownish-yellow, length of third joint about seven times the 
second; arista short, bare, black, thickened on basal two-thirds, penulti- 
mate joint slightly longer than wide. Sides of face silvery white 
pollinose, with a row of ventrally directed macrochaetz on each side. 
The facial bristles begin as short hairs on a level with insertion of the 
arista, and become more robust and longer towards the lower corner 
of the eye; numerous short hairs between the facial row and the eye. 
