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I refer to P. hrunnea eight specimens from the following 
localities : 
Alamogordo, New Mexico, three females, without host, 
May 8, 1902. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Wareham, Massachusetts, two females, off adult male 
whippoorwill, Antrostomus vociferus Wilson, June 6, 1901 (0. 
Bangs Coll.) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 
Hot Springs, Virginia, three females, off whippoorwill, 
Antrostomus vociferus Wilson, July, 1897 (Wirt Robinson Coll.) 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 
I believe that this species has not been properly recognized 
thus far. Speiser does not appear to have known it. Coquillett 
determined as hrunnea specimens which were sent to him from 
Ceara, Brazil (see F. Dias da Rocha, 1908, Bol. Museu Rocha, 
Ceara, I, p. 77), but these Brazilian specimens were P. maura var. 
lividicolor (Bigot.) 
Although closely allied to P. maura (Bigot), P. hrunnea is 
undoubtedly a distinct species. It is of a very dark brown color, 
often nearly black. It differs from both P. maura and the variety 
lividicolor in its robust build, in the much shorter and broader 
wings, which are 5 to 5.5 mm. long 'and 1.8 mm. wide, and in the 
shape of the head, the front being distinctly longer. The eyes 
extend farther toward the occiput, their upper margins reaching 
much beyond the anterior margin of the smooth vertex. The 
frontal lunule is relatively short; the basal, undivided portion of 
the clypeus is rather narrow, but long, the apical, diverging arms 
being not much over twice as long as the basal portion. The 
dorsum of the thorax is somewhat less hairy than in P. maura. 
The entire anal cell [Cu-flst A] is covered with microscopic 
setulse, the axillary cell [2d A] being the only bare part of the 
wing membrane. 
The specific name has usually been credited to Olivier, but 
the article “Ornithomyie” of the Encyclopedic Methodique was 
written by Latreille and is signed u (Lat.)” 
2. Pseudolynchia capensis (Bigot.) 
Olfersia cajpensis Bigot, 1885, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) V, 
p. 240 (d 1 ; Cape of Good Hope; no host.) 
