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Tribe Melanophryonini 

 Genus Atropharista Townsend 



The affinities of Mclanophrys and Atropharista are uncertain. 

 One can hardly agree with Brauer and von Bergenstamm's refer- 

 ence of them to the Paramacronvchiinse. They seem rather to be- 

 long in the Tachinidae. 



Atropharista jurinoidcs Townsend. — The writer has previously 

 considered this genus synonymous with Melanophrys, but it appears 

 after all to be distinct. Melanophrys has the second antennal joint 

 short, the third joint being three to five times as long as second, 

 according to sex. Atropharista has second antennal joint elongate, 

 the third joint same length or a little longer, probably never twice 

 as long even in the male. 



The species jurinoidcs is distinct from Walker's Tachina insolita, 

 if any reliance is to be placed on the description of the latter. T. 

 insolita is described as having the third antennal joint fully twice as 

 long as second, third aristal joint very stout, and a white oblique 

 stripe on each side of head, presumably (from the connection) oppo- 

 site the antenna?. The last character agrees with Mel. Havipcnnis, 

 but the other characters only partially agree. None of them seems 

 to agree with Atropharista, as the second antennal joint does not 

 appear to be elongate in insolita. 



A. jurinoidcs differs from both in having a broad, elongate silvery 

 crescent bordering the orbit on each side of the head, partly on the 

 parafrontals and partly on the parafacials. It is quite certain that 

 the elongate second antennal joint will prove Atropharista to be a 

 valid genus, as genera will ultimately go in this superfamily. 



Subfamily Phytoix.e 

 EUPHYTO, gen. nov. 



Differs from Phyto (Robineau-Desvoidy) Brauer and von Ber- 

 genstamm in having parafacials absolutely naked, tegulae small and 

 rounded, cheeks not widened posteriorly, apical cell quite long petio- 

 late, hind crossvein in middle between small crossvein and bend of 

 fourth vein, and no discal macrochsetas on abdomen. 



Differs from Stcvcnia Robineau-Desvoidy in parafacials being 

 wide, same width above and below, their width being equal to that of 

 cheeks, which are over one-third eye height. Cheeks bare, same as 

 parafacials. 



Type, Leucostoma subopaca Coquillett. 



