PSYCHE 
VOL. XXIV OCTOBER, 1917 No. 5 
FIVE NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 
TACHINIDA. 
By Harrison E. Smita, 
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, West Springfield, Mass. 
Following are the descriptions of five new species of Tachinidee 
from North America. The writer wishes to acknowledge his in- 
debtedness to Dr. C. H. T. Townsend, who has very kindly com- 
pared the following described species with material in the collec- 
tion of the U. S. National Museum, and assisted the writer in 
many other ways with this difficult family of insects. 
Pilatea unicolor sp. nov. 
Length 6-8 mm. Black, brassy gray pollinose. 
Front in male about three-fifths, in female about one and one- 
fourth to one and one-half times as wide as either eye. Frontal 
vitta opaque black, not as wide as either side of front. Diameter 
of head at vibrissee less than at base of antennz. Vibrissz on 
the oral margin, facial ridges bristly on the lowest fourth to one- 
third. Proboscis short and fleshy, palpi normal, yellow. Ocellar 
bristles strong, proclinate; two pairs of orbital bristles present in 
the female, absent in male. Frontals arranged in a single row, 
descending to base of third antennal joint, outside of these a few 
bristly hairs. Parafacials and sides of front uniformly brassy 
gray pollinose. Antenne black, nearly as long as face, the third 
joint in male three to three and one-half times as long as, in female 
about three times as long as the second. Arista thickened on the 
basal third, the penultimate joint as broad as long. Sides of face 
about one-sixth as wide as the facial depression, cheek width ap- 
proximately one-seventh the eye height. 
Thorax as viewed from the rear, marked with five black vitte. 
Dorso-centrals three, sternopleurals three. Scutellum bearing a 
