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Legs as in the male. Wings whitish hyaline, with two dark-gray 
bands, one near the apex, the other near the middle of the wing (see 
fig. 19); cell M-3 closed and petiolate, the stigma brown. 
Type locality.—Nebraska. 
Type.—In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 
Specimens examined, 16 males, 24 females. 
Distribution.—The distribution according to 16 males and 24 fe- 
males is: 
Canada: Ontario, June 6 [Canad. coll.]; Burlington, Ontario, June 
(H.C. Huckett), [Cornell]. 
Rhode Island: Buttonwoods, July 25 (C. W. Johnson). 
Massachusetts: Woods Hole, July 23 (W. M. Wheeler); Horses 
Neck Beach, August 3 (Hough). 
New Jersey: Clementon, May 30 [Univ. of Kans.]; Pleasantville 
(Phil. Laurent) [Harrisburg coll.], also Stone Harbor, July 5 (Daecke). 
Virginia: Virginia Beach, August 11 (Knab), [U. S. Biol. Survey]. 
Maryland: Beltsville, May 25, June 14, July 1 (McAtee) and June 28 
(Jackson), [U. S. Biol. Survey]; Camp Meade, June (R. C. Shannon), 
[Shannon]. 
Florida: Palatka, May 4 (Bradley), [Cornell]. 
District of Columbia: Washington (Banks), [Cole]. 
Ohio: Sandusky, June 8 (Hine), [Hine]. 
Indiana: Whiting, August 13 (W. M. Wheeler), [Amer. Mus.]; 
Plymouth, July 15, ‘“‘ predaceous on cutworms” (H. K. Laramore), 
[Cole]. 
Illinois: Lake Forest, June 11 [Cornell]; Chicago, May 28 (W. M. 
Wheeler), [Amer. Mus.]. 
Michigan: Agricultural College, June 9 to August 11 [Cornell]. 
Montana: ‘‘Montana” [Kans. Univ.]. 
Nebraska: “Fr. Mt.,” July 9 to 21 [Amer. Mus.]. 
EPOMYIA SCUTELLARIS (Loew). 
Plate 4, figs. 26, 29, 30, and 35. 
1869. Psilocephala scutellaris Lorw, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 13, p. 171. 
Male.—Length 6.5 to 8 mm. Head black, face silvery white 
pollinose, the lower part of frontal triangle more gray, the upper 
part filled with a diamond-shaped velvet black spot. Antennae of 
medium length, with short hairs on the first two joints as in the 
other two species of the genus (see fig. 30), the first two joints reddish 
yellow, the third slightly longer than the first two together and brown 
in color. Pile of palpi short and black. Occiput gray pollinose and 
white pilose. 
Thorax gray-black with two broad opaque black bands from humeri 
almost to base of wing. Pile short, yellowish, tomentumlike. Scu- 
tellum orange-red, the base narrowly blackish, a few short black 
