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hairs and secondary smaller discals besides the large 



pair (New England to North Carolina) .. .coquilletti, n. sp. 



ee. Front wider, the frontal stripe always distinct, 



about as wide as one paraf rontal ; tergites 2 and 3 



with a single pair of stout discals (widespread), 



pristis Walker, 

 dd. With three sternopleurals johnsoni Townsend. 



In the table versicolor and venusta have been placed from the 

 descriptions. 



Pseudeuantha caloptera Bigot. 



Bigot, Annales Soc. ent. France, 1888, 263, male (as female) 



(Tricholyga). — Mexico. 

 Giglio-Tos, Boll. R. Univ. Torino, viii. No. 147, 1893, male; Ditt. 



dell Messico, iii, 66, 1894, f. 16 (both Aporia elegans). — 



Tuxpango, Mexico. 

 Brauer, Sitzungsber. Kais. Akad., cvi, 24, 1897, notes on Bigot's 



type, referring it to Aporia. 

 Townsend, Proc. U. S. N. M.,, 49, 1915, 416 (linellii).—T&huan- 



tepec, Mexico. 

 Represented in the National Museum only by Townsend's 

 type female of linellii. 



Pseudeuantha pristis Walker. 



Walker, List of Diptera in the British Museum, iv, 1849, 841 

 (Dexia). — Mass. Dipt. Saundersiana, 281, 1852 (Dexia 

 basalis). — No locality. Synonymy of the latter by Major E. 

 E. Austen from types, letter, November, 1920. 



Townsend, Psyche, vi, 275, 1892, female (as male) (Aporia lima- 

 codis). — New York; bred from Limacodes sp. 



Coquillett, Revis. Tachin., 1897, 64 (Macquartia). — New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, California (for 

 his Oregon material, see Uramyia halijidotae). 



I have seen the type of limacodis in the University of 

 Kansas. I sent to the British Museum a specimen exactly 

 matching one in the National Museum determined as limacodis 

 by Townsend ; Major Austen kindly compared it with the 

 type of pristis and pronounced it the same. At the same time 

 he reported the synonymy of basalis (letter, November, 1920). 



Male. A robust form with comparatively large genital seg- 

 ments, which give the abdomen a truncated appearance. Black, 



