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[March- June 
following form (nippontucki) in that area. Pupal dif- 
ferences have not been discernable. 
T. vittiger subsp. nippontucki subsp. nov. 2 
As indicated above, this is a southwestern variant which, 
in both sexes, resembles schwardti but is much more pallid 
and frosty appearing, the femora not usually infuscated 
basally, and the thoracic lines more obscure. 
Holotype, $ , 12.5 mm. Head large, eyes brown, upper 
area of enlarged facets extensive occupying % the total 
area, distinctly hairy, vertical tubercle narrow and reduced. 
Frontal triangle yellow pollinose extending onto the cheeks 
along the eye margins. Remainder of face and cheeks whit- 
ish pollinose and pilose. Palpi pale creamy, whitish pilose, 
the apical segments plump and with a decurved nipple. 
Antennae red, scapes not enlarged. Thorax frosty pollinose 
and pilose, a little darker above with only suggestions of 2 
sublateral dorsal lines; prescutal lobes and apical half of 
scutellum pale reddish. Wings hyaline, venation normal; 
halteres pale yellow darker on the stem. Front legs with 
inner faces of femora, apical half of fore tibiae, and all tarsi 
dark brown, remainder of legs pale yellowish, the hind tibial 
fringe predominantly whitish on the basal %. Abdomen 
pale yellowish above and below the dark mesal pair of lines 
faded brown, the sublateral ones obsolescent, with few black 
hairs in evidence. The mid-stripe broad, and widened on 
each hind border. The sublateral pale lines indistinctly 
step-like and irregular. 
Westmoreland, Calif., July 20, 1933, M. Cazier. In the 
U. S. NatT. Museum No. 56087. 
Allotype, $ 12 mm. Head and its appendage shapes and 
eye pattern of the usual lineola type, frontal index 1 :4.5, 
convergent below but parallel in the upper third. Callosity 
brown, narrowly separated from the eye margins, the me- 
dian callosity short and narrowly joined to the basal. Sub- 
callus yellow pollinose, face and cheeks whitish pilose and 
2 The unorthodox name was applied in manuscript on Dec. 8, 1941 
(the day after “Pearl Harbor”), and is of barbaric derivation to com- 
memorate recent events associated with “Nippon”, and a style of 
sneak air attack used even by horseflies. 
