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polished and becoming blackish posteriorly, an elongate-oval, transverse, 

 black ocellar spot and a pair of black spots between the antennae. 

 Thorax brown, the anterior part and the scutellum yellowish. Abdomen 

 black, the base reddish yellow, the medio-dorsal region marked with 

 a pale yellow triangular spot, followed by two fasciae of the same 

 color, the second one at its ends usually prolonged to the hind end 

 of the abdomen; venter black laterally, the middle pale yellow; just 

 before the anal opening in the female is a transverse row of three 

 small chitinized brown spots. Legs light yellow; front and middle 

 tibiae devoid of spines, except at their apices, the front ones with a 

 stout black apical spine reaching to apex of second tarsal joint, the 

 middle tibiie with a long, black spine and a second spine about one-half 

 as long; hind tibiae bearing a row of three along the inner side and a 

 crown of four at the apex. Length 4 to 5 mm. 



Woodstock, N. H. Six females and one male collected on 

 deer in November, 1905, by Mr. John P. Long. Type No. 

 10,292 U. S. National Museum. 



The form here considered as being depressa is represented in 

 the National Museum by a fine series of specimens collected on 

 a blacktailed deer by Mr. H. S. Barber, in Humboldt county, Cal. 

 The habitat of Say's specimens is not at present known ; in the 

 original description he simply stated that this species "Inhabits 

 Cervus virginianus," a kind of deer which, as at that time 

 understood, ranged from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains. 

 In the introductory remarks in the paper which contains his 

 description of depressa he stated that the Diptera described 

 therein "were chiefly collected by myself during the late expedi- 

 tion to the Rocky Mountains under the command of Major 

 Long." It is altogether probable, therefore, that the specimens 

 were obtained' from a deer shot by one of the members of the 

 expedition at some point between Arkansas and the Rocky 

 Mountains. That it should also be found in northern Cali- 

 fornia is not an improbable occurrence. 



Aspidoptera busckii Coq. 



This is given by Speiser as a synonym of phyllostomatis 

 Perty, but is readily distinguished by the fact that the tibiae 

 are only pubescent, while in phyllostomatis, four Brazilian 

 specimens of which are before me, the tibiae are fringed with 

 comparatively long bristly hairs. 



