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Psyche 
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Described from a long series of both sexes from the following 
localities: Selden, L. I., Baiting Hollow, L. I., Washington, D. 
C., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Wood’s Hole, Mass., Ithaca, N. Y., 
Lake George, N. Y., Luzerne Co., Pa., Colebrook, Conn., Fire 
Island, N. Y., Albany, N. Y., Nelson Co., Va., Lake Placid, 
N. Y., Lakehurst, N. J., Riverhead, L. T., McLean, N. Y., 
Ridgewood, N. J., Chester, Mass., Rutland, Mass., Bolton Mt., 
Vt., Durham, N. H., Tiverton, R. I., Keene Valley, N. Y., 
Nassau, N. Y., Wells, N. Y., Duck Lake, N. Y., Freeville, N. Y., 
Storrs, Conn. ; July to September. 
Flies answering the above description have been passing in 
collections for Ptilodexia harpasa Walk. That species however, 
as I know it, has the parafacials hairy, though similar in many 
other respects to this species. I have before me a long series 
of each, and I feel confident that distinction on the basis of bare 
or hairy face is well warranted. More thorough study, involving 
the examination of genitalia, may disclose as fact, what I now 
suspect; namely, that more than two species are here involved. 
I am however confident that the holotype and allotype of R. 
confusa belong together, and therefore feel justified in publishing 
the above description at the present time. 
Holotype, male, Selden, L. I., July I, 1923, allotype female, 
Baiting Hollow, L. L, Aug. 12, 1923. Both at Ithaca. Para- 
types at Albany, Boston Society of Natural History, and in the 
collections of Messrs. Davis and Huckett. 
Ateloglossa wheeleri n. sp. 
Male: Appearance similar to Sarcophaga. Front twice 
width of ocellar triangle. No orbitals. Antennse brown, half as 
long as face. Carina large, protruding. Vibrissae slightly above 
oral margin, three or four small bristles above each. Proboscis 
half the head height. Palpi wanting. Beard light colored. 
Sides of face bare. Thorax and abdomen black to grayish pol- 
linose. Dorsal vittae 5. Post-suturals 4, sternopleurals 3, 1 
stout and several lesser pteropleurals. Wings hyaline, no costal 
spine, apical cell closed and ending just before wing tip. Squamae 
translucent-brown. First abdominal segment without mac- 
