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2, With only three postsutural macrochetie, second and third segments 
of abdomen bearing discal macrochetie, facial ridges hairy out- 
side of the bristles, front of female slightly wider than either eye, 
the sides and face whitish pollinose, third joint of antennze two 
and one-half times as long as the second, arista thickened on 
the basal third, the penultimate joint slightly longer than wide; 
abdomen subshining, gray pollinose, marked with dark reflect- 
ing spots; length,9 mm. Franconia, N. H. (Biol. Cent.-Amer., 
Diptera, Vol. II, p. 81; Feb., 1890: Phorocera.). cinerea v. d. W. 
With four postsutural macrochetie, second and third segments of 
abdomen destitute of discal macrochietie, facial ridges bare out- 
side of the bristles; length, 5 to 14 mm. Franconia, N. H.; 
Massachusetts; Brooklyn, N. Y.; District of Columbia; Vir- 
ginia; Indiana; Illinois; Jackson, Tenn.; Tifton, Ga.; Crescent 
City, Fla.; Mississippi; St. Louis, Mo.; Louisiana; Texas; Colo- 
rado; Las Cruces, N. Mex., and California. (Dipteres Exot- 
iques, Supplement ILI, p. 209 [49]; 1847: Phorocera, Eury- 
gaster septentrionalis Walker, Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver 
Island, Vol. II, p. 339; 1866. Phorocera edwardsii Williston, 
Seudder’s Butterflies of New Eugland, Vol. TI, p. 1921; 1889. 
Podotachina vibrissata Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kats. 
Mus. Wien, V, p. 351; 1891: also in litt. Huphorocera tachi- 
nomoides Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIX, p. 112; 
May, 1892. Phorocera lophyri Townsend, loc. cit., p. 289; De- 
Comber, WSO2:\ee rae So eae e cto et Re ee ee ee claripennis Macq. 
Genus PHOROCERA Desv. 
Phorocera Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 154; 1830. 
Blondelia Desvoidy, loc. eit , p. 122. 
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Rhinomya Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 123. 
Pales Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 154. 
This synonymy is given by Macquart! and repeated by Schiner;? 
Brauer and Bergenstamm also give Pales as equivalent to Phorocera,* 
but make no mention of the other two names: 
1. With four sternopleural and four postsutural macrochietie, palpi 
black, second and third segments of abdomen bearing discal 
macrochete, sides of front destitute of macrochete outside of 
the frontal bristles, except the orbital bristles of the female; 
front in the male two-thirds as wide as, in the female slightly 
wider than, either eye; frontal bristles descending below the 
arista, the latter thickened on its basal third; third joint of 
antenne in the male six, in the female four, times as long as the 
! Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 420; 1850. 
2Fauna Austrica, Vol. I, p. 488; 1862. 
3 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 234; 1893. 
