93 
Scutellum black, middle tibiae each bearing a single macroehaeta on 
the front side near the middle, front in the male two thirds, in 
the female live-sixths, as wide as either eye, third joint of 
antenn;e one and one- half times as long as the second; length, 
5 to 8 mm. Franconia, X. H.; Beverly, Mass.; District of 
Columbia; Charleston, S. C; Biscay ne Bay, Fla. ; Oxford, Ind. ; 
Moselle, Mo.; Tiger Mills. Tex.; Colorado, and Allende, Mexico. 
(List of Dipterous Insects, Part IV, p. 754; 1840: Tachina. 
Taehina [Exorista] phycitce LeBaron, Second Beport Insects 
Illinois, p. 123; 1872. Exorista scudderi Williston, in Scudder's 
Butterflies of Xew England, Vol. Ill, p. 1921 ; 1880. Nemorilla 
sp., Braaer and Bergenstamm in litt.) pyste Walk. 
5. Palpi yellow 7. 
Palpi black, four postsutural macrochaetae, scutellum usually yellow, 
middle tibia.* each bearing two or more macrochaetae on the front 
side near the middle, hind tibiae outwardly ciliate, apical cell 
open, male destitute of orbital bristles G. 
6. Front in both sexes one and one-fourth times as wide as either eye, 
third joint of antenna* in the male four, in the female two and 
one-fourth, times as long as the second, arista thickened to the 
middle; length, 7 to 8 mm. White Mountains and Franconia, 
N. II.; Olyinpia, Wash.: England, and Austria. One female 
from England received from E. Brnnetti and by him named 
Exorista vulgaris; also two males and one female from Austria, 
from Brauerand Bergenstamm and named by them Blepharidea 
vulgaris Fall. (Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handlinger, 
Vol. XXXI; 1810: Tachina. The following synonymy is given 
by Rondani 1 and repeated by Schiner: 2 Lydella scutellaris Des- 
voidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. L15; 1830. Exorista distans 
Macquart, AnnalesSoc. Entomol. France, p. 387 ; 1840. Exorista 
audax Macquart, loc. cit., p.388. Exorista florida Macquart, loc 
cit., p. 400. The following synonymy is by the writer: Tachina 
[Exorista] hirsuta Osteu Saeken, Oauadian Entomologist, Yol. 
XIX, p. 10.'] ; September, 1887. Blepharidea \hirsuta O. S., Brauer 
and Bergenstamm in lift.) vulgaris Fallen. 
Front in the male one half, in the female three-fourths, as wide as 
either eye: third joint of antennae in the male two and one-half, 
in the female one and one third, times as long as the second; 
arista thickened on the basal third ; length, 5 to 8 mm. Toronto, 
Can.; Franconia, X. II.; Dist. Columbia; Illinois, and southern 
Cal. (Psyche, Vol. VII, p. 330; Jan., 1890.) . . niaripalpis Town. 
7. Thorax bearing four postsutural macrochaetae, apical cell open. . 11. 
Thorax bearing only three postsutural macrochaetae 8. 
8. Middle tibia; each bearing two or more macrochaetae on the front 
side near the middle 0. 
1 DipterologiiE Italic Prodromns, Vol. III. p. 110; 1859. 
* Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 158; 1662. 
