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anal plate. The larval mouth parts are represented on a portion of 
the capital plate forming part of the single anterior flap which is pres- 
ent, by two small erect tubercles projecting straight out from the sur- 
face of the integument, situated at edge of capital plate, and on 
opposing sides. The remaining portion of the capital plate, which is 
absent, the other flap being detached and missing, doubtless bears a 
third similar erect tubercle, the three being so arranged that they 
represent the corners of a nearly equilateral triangle. These tuber- 
cles are erect, about as high as their basal diameter, ending in a blunt 
but laterally compressed apex, the apical diameter one way equalling 
the basal while the other way it is much less than the basal, the apical 
surface with about 4 faint transverse notches leaving 5 faint transverse 
ridges. The longitudinal axis of the compressed apex of each tubercle 
is at an angle of about 45 degrees with the margin of the capital plate. 
The surface of the capital plate is more or less irregularly transversely, 
not circularly, fluted. Anal stigmata situated in center of anal plate, 
consisting of two erect raised organs, not as far apart as the diameter of 
either, each consisting of 3 ridge-like sections separated by deep 
notches, the flap-like ridges of each stigma quite closely approximated 
at their inner ends and widely divergent outwardly, the superior and 
inferior ones diverging at nearly a right angle. Each of these keel- 
like ridges bears a longitudinal median suture or fissure its whole 
length. These stigmatic organs, unlike those of Blepharipeza and 
many other tachinids, project straight out from the surface of the 
integument, being about as high as their diameter. A little distance 
ventrally (? dorsally) of the pair of anal stigmata, being situated on 
anterior border of 10th segment, is a small slit-like opening in the 
integument resembling a spiracle, its longer diameter being longitudi- 
nal tothe puparium. The vent-like anal tubercle described in Blepha- 
ripeza is not present. : : 
Supplementary note to description of puparium of Blepharipeza.— 
In the description above referred to, of the puparium of Blepharipeza 
adusta Lw., I mentioned only one tubercle on the capital plate. This 
was all that was present on the nearly detached anterior flap of the 
puparium, the correspondihg flap on the opposite side being A 
It should have been mentioned that the absent portion of the capital 
plate doubtless bore two more tubercles similar to the one described, 
situated near the edges of the plate as was also the latter, the three 
being arranged in a triangle, but not so far apart asin Jurinia, being 
of larger size.—c. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 
