6l8 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



CESTRID.^. 



51. CuTEREBRA AMERICANA Fabr. California. One 

 female, 22 mm. long. I refer this specimen here al- 

 though there is no visible yellowish or even whitish pile 

 on pleura% which are covered with short thin blackish 

 pile, with hardly a lighter tinge in some lights. Abdo- 

 men dull purplish. 



32. CuTEREBRA FONTINELLA Clk. ; TownS., InSCCt 



Life, V, 317-320. San Joaquin Valley, Cal. May 7. 

 Two females, with the puparia from which they emerged. 

 These both have the grayish bloom containing black spots 

 extending well up on the dorsum of second and third ab- 

 dominal segments (see description in Insect Life, 1. c.) 

 The anterior elongate whitish pollinose marking of front 

 mentioned in my description is divided into two in both 

 specimens, thus making three equal rather triangular 

 markings arranged in form of a triangle. The two small 

 round spots of cheeks are brown and shining, being sim- 

 ply the denuded surface, like a callosity without pollen. 

 There is a velvet-black pollinose triangular spot on each 

 side of facial depression at lower extremity of frontal 

 wrinkle. 



TACHINIDyE. 



53. Dejeania rutilioides Jaenn. California. Two 

 female specimens. 



54. Saundersia siGNiFERA Willist. California. One 

 female. 



55. Blepharipeza rufescens Towns. California. 

 One 6 I am inclined to identify with this species. It 

 agrees well with the description, but the rufous portions 

 of abdomen are of a darker shade. Length, 11 5^ mm. 



56. JuRiNiA apicifera Walk. San Jose del Cabo, 



