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Secutellum black, middle tibize each bearing a single macrochieta on 
the front side near the middle, front in the male two-thirds, in 
the female five-sixths, as wide as either eye, third joint of 
antenne one and one-half times as long as the second; length, 
5 to 8 mm. Franconia, N. H.; Beverly, Mass.; District of 
Columbia; Charleston, S.C.; Biscayne Bay, Fla.; Oxford, Ind.; 
Moselle, Mo.; Tiger Mills, Tex.; Colorado, and Allende, Mexico. 
(List of Dipterous Insects, Part IV, p. 754; 1849: Tachina. 
Tachina | Exorista| phycite LeBaron, Second Report Insects 
Illinois, p. 123; 1872. Hwvorista scudderi Williston, in Seudder’s 
Butterflies of New England, Vol. IIT, p. 1921; 1889. MNemorilla 
sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm in litt.) ...-......--. pyste Walk. 
Sommer taipolan ye OW ee elegr rt fe ee OS os. hope Seats a ee eee Pees a ei eae ie 
Palpi black, four postsutural macrochetie, scutellum usually yellow, 
middle tibive each bearing two or more macrochietie on the front 
side near the middle, hind tibize outwardly ciliate, apical cell 
open, male destitute of orbital bristles.:.:-...2.-.-..-.:--.-- 6. 
6. Front in both sexes one and one-fourth times as wide as either eye, 
third joint of antenne in the male four, in the female two and 
one-fourth, times as long as the second, arista thickened to the 
middle; length, 7 to8 mm. White Mountains and Franconia, 
N. H.; Olympia, Wash.; England, and Austria. One female 
from England received from KE. Brunetti and by him named 
Hxorista vulgaris ; also two males and one female from Austria, 
from Brauer and Bergenstamm and named by them blepharidea 
vulgaris Fall. (Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handlinger, 
Vol. XXXI; 1810: Tachina. The following synonymy is given 
by Rondani! and repeated by Schiner:? Lydella scutellaris Des- 
voidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 115; 1830. Hvorista distans 
Macquart, Annales Soc. Entomol. France, p.387; 1849. Hvorista 
audax Macquart, loc. cit., p.388. Hxorista florida Macquart, loc. 
cit., p. 409. The following synonymy is by the writer: Tachina 
| Hxorista| hirsuta Osten Sacken, Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 
XIX, p. 163; September, 1887. Blepharidea thirsuta O.S., Brauer 
and -‘bereenstaim i Wit:). 202.22 22. se see - vulgaris Fallen. . 
Front in the male one-half, in the female three-fourths, as wide as 
either eye; third joint of antenne in the male two and one-half, 
in the female one and one third, times as long as the second; 
arista thickened on the basal third; length, 5 to 8mm. ‘Toronto, 
Can.; Franconia, N. H.; Dist. Columbia; Illinois, and southern 
Cal. (Psyche, Vol. VII, p. 330; Jan., 1896.) ..niqripalpis Town. 
7. Thorax bearing four postsutural macrochietie, apical cell open.. 11, 
Thorax bearing only three postsutural macrochietie ........--- 8. 
8. Middle tibiz each bearing two or more macrochete on the front 
Dina ha ala a ah Fe ba i ay fo we) lal feta) of @) 0h ml Wiel) a Ny ore = nice, = a) eo 
1 Dipterologiw Italics Prodromns, Vol. III, p. 140; 1859. 
2Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 458; 1862. 
