290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Quly, '07 



Notes and Descriptions of Hippoboscidae and 



Streblidae. 



By D. W. Coquillett. 



Ornithomyia butalis Coq. 



In Entomological News for March, 1907, (p. 103), Dr. Spei- 

 ser expresses his belief that this species is synonymous with avi- 

 cularia Linne. Besides the great difference in color, the two 

 forms are readily separable by the venation ; in butalis the apex 

 of the second basal cell is slightly nearer to the apex of the anal 

 than to the small crossvein; in avicitlaria, two European 

 specimens of which are before me, the second basal cell is pro- 

 longed almost to the small crossvein, the distance never much 

 exceeding the length of that crossvein. 



Ornithomyia anchineuria Speiser {pallida Say, 1823, not Olivier, 181 1). 



Nine specimens from localities ranging from Washington, 

 D. C, to California, agree so well with Say's description as to 

 leave no doubt in regard to their belonging to his species; I 

 am unable to distinguish them from European specimens of 

 avicularia Linne and believe that they belong to this holarctic 

 species. In some of the specimens the crossvein at the apex 

 of the second basal cell is practically interstitial with the 

 small crossvein, as Say described it, but the position of this 

 crossvein is variable in the different specimens. 



Lynchia brunnea Olivier. 



Dr. Speiser refers this species to the genus Lynchia with 

 a query, but since the form which the writer independently 

 identified as this species belongs to the present genus, and 

 moreover since Olivier's description applies to this species bet- 

 ter than to any other form which occurs in our fauna, there 

 would seem to be no need for the query. 



Lipoptena subulata n. sp. 



Near depressa Say but larger, with a fasciate abdomen and a stout 

 black spine at the apex of the inner side of the front tibiae. Head 

 yellowish, middle of the front opaque brownish, the broad orbits 



