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6. Joppidium rubriceps Cresson 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 1 female, Botanical Garden, 1 IV ’75. 
HABITAT: Herbs, grasses, and pink-flowered verbenas in bright 
sun. 
DISTRIBUTION: N. J. to south Texas. 
PHAENOLOGY: Flies from mid March to early November, appear- 
ing first and disappearing latest in southern parts of its range. 
7. Lanugo picta Townes 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 13 females, 24 males: BOTANICAL GAR- 
DEN (Net: 4 females, 8 males, 1-15 1 ’75; 4 females, 8 males, 16-26 
I ’75; 1 female, 4 IV ’75; 1 female, 1 male, 20-31 XII ’73; 1 female, 
5 males, 24-30 XII ’74; Malaise: 1 female. III ’74; 1 female, 2 males, 
XII ’74). 
HABITAT: Open and semi-shaded areas; old fields, hedge rows, 
woods edges; tall grass at edge of thicket dominated by Celtis 
lindheimeri and C. pallida; a few specimens in Celtis thicket. 
DISTRIBUTION: South Texas to northern Arizona and as far 
south in Mexico as Chiapas. 
PHAENOLOGY: Invernal, Valley records include 3 females and 
8 males, for December, 8 females and 16 males for January, 1 fe- 
male for March and 1 female for April. Flies all summer in moun- 
tainous parts of west Texas, Arizona and Mexico. 
Varies in abundance from year to year: 3 specimens in ’73-74, 
34 in 74-75, none in 75-76 or so far in 76-77. 
8. Compsocryptus texensis Townes 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 26 females, 6 males: bentsen park (Net: 
1 male, 12-20 III 77; 2 females, 29-30 XII 76); BOTANICAL GAR- 
DEN (Net: 6 females, 5-26 I 75; 2 females, 3 males, 28-30 III 75; 
5 females, 1 male, 2-5 IV 75; 1 male, 16-30 V 74; 1 female, 19 XII 
76; 8 females, 20-28 XII 74; 2 females, 28-30 XII 73). 
HABITAT: Open, dry areas; fields, hedge rows; short grass and 
low herbs of incipient secondary succession; herbage of poorly 
tended orange groves; lawns. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ka. to Okla. and Tex. south into N. Leon and 
Tamaulipas of Mexico. 
