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blunt tips ordinarily lying between tlie arms of the 

 penis like a part of that organ; the claspers and penis 

 seem to coalesce at base, and all lie deep in the groove 

 of the under side of the hypopygium. Penis with but 

 one segment, yellow, simple, much like that of Sar- 

 cophaga communis'; it has a pair of conspicuous 

 straight i)lack anterior plates. 



Legs l)lack, middle fenun- with comb; middle 

 tibia with two bi-istles on the outer front side, and 

 with long villosity in the inner, which is strikingly long 

 at the very tip; hind tibia also with villosity, but not 

 so long at the tip; botli of these tibi;c are curved, and 

 the hind femur is thickened and curved. 



Female. Front .413 of head (average of three, 

 — .405, .412, .421) ; Genital segment brown and shin 

 ing above, the orifice transverse. Femora and ti})iae 

 simple, but the hind femora are a little curved. 



Length TV^, to 14 mm. 



Five males and three females: four males and 

 three females were taken at Moscow, Idaho, by the 

 writer, some on flowers of goldenrod and parsnips, at 

 dates from Jime 24 to Sept. 4. The other male is 

 from Koehler, Xew Mexico (W. K. Walton). 



Coquillett's ty})e of Paraplnjto opdCd is in the 

 Xational Muscuul and was examined by tlic writer. 



Type. — In the Imperial Museum. Vienna. 



No. 3. Wohlfahrtia vigil Walk. 



Walker, List of Dipterous Insects in the l>ritish Museum, 



iv, 831 (Sarco/^haga). — Nova Scotia. 

 Coquillett, jour. N. Y. Rnt. Soc, iii, 105 (Farapliyto 



chittendeni) ; Revis. Tachin., 122 (id.).^ — N. V. ; 



Michigan. 



My attention was called to Walker's SarrojjJiaga 

 vigil l)y C\ W. Jolmson, who had identified it; as I 

 had just been studying tlic ty])e of ParapJuflo cJiii- 

 tendcni, it was easy to detect the synonymy. Walker's 

 description a])])lies \'ei-v well, and the s])ecies is so 

 unicjue in coloi-ation as to leave little doubt of its cor- 

 rect identification. 



