Jt 
Wine wires srernopleural macrochete.....-52 2-2-2222 5+.---- 18, 
With only two sternopleural macrochete, hind tibie outwardly 
ciliate, arista thickened on the basal third ...........-.-- 16. 
15. Palpi black, front in the male three-fourths, in the female one and 
one-sixth times, as wide as either eye; third joint of antenne 
in the male five, in the female three, times as long as the second; 
length, 5to7 mm. White Mountains and Franconia, N. H.; 
Beverly, Mass.; District of Columbia; Shreveport, La.; Las 
Cruces, N. Mex.; Tucson, Ariz.; California, and Austria. Two 
males and one female from Austria, received from Brauer and 
Bergenstamm, and by them named Parexorista confinis Hall. 
(Diptera Sueciv, Muscidie, p.52; 1820: Tachina. The following 
synonymy is given by Rondaniand repeated by Schiner: Phry.ve 
zonata Desvoidy, Essaisur les Myodaires, p.159; 1830. The fol- 
lowing is by Schiner: Phrywe servillii Desvoidy, |. ¢.,and Phryxe 
sabulosa Desvoidy,1l.e. The followingis by the writer: Tachina 
theclarum Scudder, Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XIX, p. 166; 
September, 1887. Hworista chrysophant Townsend,' Entomo- 
logical News, Vol. I, p.197; December, 1591.). - -confinis Fall. 
Palpi yellow, front in the male two-thirds, in the female three- 
fourths, the width of either eye; third joint of antennie in each 
sex four times as long as the second; black, the palpi and 
scutellum, except at base, yellow; sides of front bearing scat- 
tered, rather short, hairs; two pairs of orbital bristles in the 
female, none in the male; antenne nearly as long as the face, 
arista thickened almost to the middle, cheeks one-sixth as wide 
as the eye height, facial ridges bristly on the lowest fourth to 
half; thorax gray pollinose, marked with four black vittie, 
seutellum bearing two long and two short pairs of marginal 
macrochetie, abdomen on the last three segments eray polli- 
nose except the apex of each, the hairs depressed; wings hya- 
line, base of third vein bearing two bristles, calypteres white; 
front pulvilli of male slightly longer than the last tarsal joint; 
leneth, 5.5 to 8 mm. Maryland, District of Columbia, and 
Virginia. Two males and five females. Type No, 3595, U.S. 
Wa iOomal WUSenEM aC tke. Sens Lec eb Bs tt ee lobeliw 1. sp. 
16. With four postsutural macrochete......-.------------------ ii: 
With only three postsutural macrochetw, middle tibiwe each bear- 
ing a single macrocheta on the front side near the middle ; 
black, the palpi, scutellum, femora, and tibie yellow; front in 
female two-thirds the width of either eye, the sides bearing 
numerous rather short hairs, two pairs of orbital bristles in the 
female, frontal bristles descending nearly to apex of second 
joint of antenne, cheeks scarcely one-tenth as broad as the 
1Mr. Townsend has admitted the synonymy of chrysophani and theclarum in Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XXII, p. 75; 1895. 
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