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Genus CUPHOCERA Macq. 
Cuphocera Macquart, Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 267; 1845. 
Palpibraca Rondani, Annali Naturalisti Napoli; 1845. 
Sphyricera Lioy, Atti Instituto Veneto, Vol. IX, p. 1336; 1864. 
The synonymy of the first two is according to Rondani.! Sphyricera 
is referred by Brauer and Bergenstamm as a subgenus of Cuphocera.’ 
Our two species have three postsutural and three sternopleural macro- 
cheete : 
Abdomen black, the fourth segment yellowish; length, 10 to 12 mm. 
Franconia, N. H.; Massachusetts; Westville, N. J., and northern 
Illinois. (Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Vol. XX XV, p.193; 1892: 
PYACRODNOL s\ a Jie Se ee ore oe ee Jucata v. d. W. 
Abdomen yellowish, a dorsal black vitta on the first three seg- 
ments; length, 10 to 13 mm. Lake Worth, Fla., and California. 
(Dipteres Exotiques, Supplement IV, part Il, p. 148 (175); 1849: 
IMACKODOUDUS |. Ae ieee as ee te cp ee, californiensis Macq. 
Genus PELETERIA Desv. 
Peleteria Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 39; 1830. 
Sphyromyia Bigot, Bulletin Soc. Ent. France, p. 108; 1883. 
Chetopeleteria Mik, Wiener Entomol. Zeitung, Vol. XIII, p. 100; March 31, 1894. 
Tetracheta Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VII, p. 611; 1894. 
The synonymy of the first two is by the writer; the last two are 
given by Brauer and Bergenstamm as subgenera of Peleteria.* Our 
species have four postsutural and three sternopleural macrochetz : 
1. Abdomen yellow on the sides or at the apex, thorax and sides of 
fromt PolliMmosex« cast POL Aye es Se a 8 eee 2. 
Abdomen wholly shining black, not pollinose, sides of front shining 
bronze black, thorax shining, almost destitute of pollen, front 
tarsi of female noticeably dilated; length, 12.5 mm. Bighorn 
Mountains, Wyoming; Colorado, and Salmon City, Idaho. (In 
Zetterstedt’s Diptera Scandinavie, Vol. VIII, p. 3217; 1849: 
Echinomyia. ? Tachina hirta Curtis, in Ross’s Voyage to the 
Arctic -Resion, p19; Lal eo ae eee ee cnea Staeger. 
2. Second and third segments of abdomen largely or wholly gray 
polinose; length, 10to14mm. Toronto, Canada; White Moun- 
tains, New Hampshire; Allegheny, Pa.; Ithaca, N. Y.; northern 
Illinois; Missouri; Georgia; Texas; Denver, Colo., and Santa 
Cruz, Lake, Calaveras and Los Angeles counties, Cal. (Aus- 
sereuropiische Zweif. Insekten, Vol. II, p. 290; 1830: Tachina. 
Hehinomyia analis Macquart, Dipteres Exotiques, Suppl. I, p. 
144; 1846. Tachina anaxias Walker, List of Dipterous Insects, 
Part IV, p. 726; 1849. Hechinomyia filipalpis Rondani, Arch- 
ivio Zool. VAnat. e Fisiologia, Vol. III, p.15; 1865. Hchinomyia 
! Dipterologice Italicze Prodromus, Vol. I, p. 63; 1856. 
2Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VII, p. 613; 1894. 
3Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VII, p. 613; 1894 
