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Thryptocerci and allies discussed ; Eloceria, Rob. Desv., amended as 
Uelocera , and recharacterized : Mik, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. p. 184. The 
type is Tachina ( Thryptocera ) delecta , Meig. (= Tach. maculiventris , 
Zett., Eloceria rnacrocera, Rob. Desv., and Thryptocera Icowarzi, Now.) ; 
id. 1. c. pp. 182-187. 
Hyalomyia bonapartea, Rond., and its varieties aurigera , Egger, and 
hriechbaumeri , Schin., discussed and redescribed at length ; Girschner, 
Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 144-146 & 175-178. 
Nemorcea leucanice, Kirkp., noticed and figured ; Lintner, Rep. Ins. N. 
York, i. p. 146, fig. 37, and Coquillett, Rep. Ins. Illiu. xi. pp. 53 & 54. 
Echinosoma pectinatinm, Girschn., = Hemoraza consobrina f Meig. (= 
Plalychira consobrina, Rond.); Mik, l. c. p. 182. 
Tachina spp. noticed as parasitic on Thyridopteryx epliemenformis , 
Crambus vulgivagellus, Loxotcenia rosaceana , and Hibernia tiliaria , Harr. ; 
Lintner, l. c. pp. 87, 145, & 146, and Thotnas, Rep. Ins. Illin. xi. p. 14. 
New species : — 
Allophora micans, Yander Wulp, Tijdschr. Ent. xxvi. p. 14, pi. i. fig. 12 
(wing), Argentine Republic. 
Ocyptera nigrina, id. 1. c. p. 15, Argentine Republic. 
Echinoniyia lugubris , Quebec, p. 20, vittata , p. 21, and piliventris , 
Argentine Republic, p. 22, id. 1. c. 
Belvoisia weyenberghiana , id. /. c. p. 26, pi. i. figs. 16-18 (with details), 
Argentine Republic. 
Nemoraza nyctmerianus\-na~] , Hudson, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xv. p. 218, fig., and 
Ent. xvi. pp. 40 & 71, New Zealand (parasitic on Nyctemera annulatd). 
DexiDjE. 
Hystrisyphona , Bigot, does not belong to the T'achinidce 1 but to the 
Dexidce ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. xlv. 
Urodexia , g. n., Osten-Sacken, Ann. Mus. Genov, xviii. p. 11. Belongs 
to the Dexince with a glabrous arista ; abdomen terminating in a long, 
subcylindrical, slender, slightly tapering tail, beset with scattered bristles, 
and ending in a blunt point ; middle legs very long. Type, U. peni- 
cillum , sp. n., 1. c. p. 14, fig., Celebes. 
Prosena longipalpis , fig. 2 (wing), and sarcophagina (figs. 3 & 4, head 
and wing), spp. nn., Yan der Wulp, Tijdschr. Ent. xxvi. pp. 30 & 31, pi. ii., 
Argentine Republic. 
Dexia tenuicornis , figs. 5 & 6, p. 32 , parvicornis, fig. 7 & 8, pi. ii. (heads 
and wings), Argentine Republic, and suaois , Guadeloupe, p. 33, spp. nn., 
id. 1. c. 
Sarcophagidas. 
Sarcophaga sp. carrying a piece of hay -stem, two inches and a half long; 
Fletcher, Ent. M. M. xx. p. 163. S. striata , Schin. ( nec Meig.), = S. 
melanura , Meig. ; Mik, Yerh, z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. pp. 187 & 188. 
