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quite like a Pyralid. Head now brown instead of black, but the 

 narrow thoracic shield black; body pale glaucous-green; dorsal 

 vessel showing as a darkish line. Each segment has several 

 transverse grooved striae or wrinkles dorsally. There is very 

 little variation in the imago so far as Jamaican examples are con- 

 cerned. In a series obtained by Mr. Bowrey I find the expanse 

 varying from 53 to 61 mm. The largest vitreous spot on the 

 fore-wing is often subquadrate, as described by Scudder, but 

 often elongate, considerably longer than broad. Mr. Scudder 

 calls this "The Brazilian Skipper," but the Canna butterfly, or 

 Canna Skipper, would be a more appropriate name. 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID/E. 



By C. H. Tyler Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



The following are descriptions of South Florida and Jamaica 

 forms, collected respectively by Mr. Charles Robertson, of Car- 

 hnville. 111. , and Mr. Charles W. Johnson, of the Wagner Insti- 

 tute, Philadelphia. 



Blepharipeza nigrisqaamis n. sp. cj".— Eyes brown; frontal vitta blackish 

 brown; face, cheeks, and sides of front silvery white pollinose, darker in 

 some lights; facial ridges bristly half way up, sides of face bare, except 

 for descending frontal bristles; antennae and arista black, third antennal 

 joint about three times as long as the somewhat elongate second ; pro- 

 boscis black, labella large, brown; palpi rather stout, bristly, rufous, 

 blackish at base; occiput silvery, gray-hairy. Thorax purplish black, 

 faintly silvery pollinose, with four narrow black vittae interrupted at suture, 

 the outer pair more so than the inner pair; scutellum black, very bristly. 

 Abdomen wholly dense black, with a bluish or purplish reflection, thickly 

 set with macrochsetae. Legs black, claws and pulvilli a little elongate, 

 pulvilli tawny. Wings grayish hyaline, broadly and abruptly black at 

 base; tegulae and alulae black, halteres brownish. Length of body, 9 mm.; 

 of wing, nearly 9 mm. 



Described from one specimen; Portland, Jamaica, April (C. 

 W. Johnson). This species differs from B. leiuophrys in its 

 smaller size, blacker bases of wings, and somewhat stouter palpi. 



Pachyophthalmus floridensis n. sp. <^. — Eyes brown; frontal vitta nearly 

 black, velvety, narrow, about one-third width of front, front about one- 

 fifth width of head; frontal bristles in double row; sides of front, face, 

 and cheeks silvery whitish, with slight brassy tinge on front; vibrissae dis- 

 tinct, decussate; antennae black, third joint hardly one and a half times 

 as long as second, arista black; proboscis brownish, palpi blackish; oc- 

 ciput cinereous. Thorax and scutellum siK er>' cinereous, with three broad 



