102 
2. With only three postsutural macrochaBtae, second and third segments 
of abdomen bearing cliscal inacrochaetae, facial ridges hairy out- 
side of the bristles, front of female slightly wider than either eye, 
the sides and face whitish pollinose, third joint of antenna' two 
and one-half times as long as the second, arista thickened on 
the basal third, the penultimate joint slightly longer than wide; 
abdomen subshining, gray pollinose. marked with dark reflect- 
ing spots; length, 9 mm. Franconia, X. II. (Biol. Cent.- Amer., 
Diptera, Vol. LI, p. 81 : Feb.. 1890: Phorocera.) .cinerea v. d. W. 
With four postsutural macrochaetae, second and third segments of 
abdomen destitute of discal macrochaetae, facial ridges bare out- 
side of the bristles; length, 5 to 14 mm. Franconia, X. II.; 
.Massachusetts; Brooklyn, X. Y.; District of Columbia; Vir- 
ginia: Indiana; Illinois; Jackson, Tenn.; Tif ton, Ga. ; Crescent 
City, Fla.; Mississippi; St. Louis. Mo.; Louisiana; Texas; Colo- 
rado; Las Cruces, X. Mew. and California. (Dipteres Fxot- 
iques, Supplement III, p. 209 [49]; L847: Phorocera. Eury- 
ga8ter septentrionalis Walker, Lord's Naturalist in Vancouver 
Island, Vol. II. p. 339; L86G. Phorocera edwardsii Williston, 
Scndder's Butterflies of Xew England, Vol. Ill, p. 1921; 1889, 
Podotachina vibristtato Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. 
Mns. Wien, V, p. 351; 1891: also in lift. Euphorocera tachi- 
nomoides Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XIX. p. Ill*; 
May, 1892. Phorocera lophyri Townsend. ioc. cit., p. 289; De- 
cember. 1892.) claripennis Macq. 
Genus PHOROCERA Desv. 
Phorocera Desvoidy, Essai snr lea Myotlairea, p. 131 : L830. 
Blondelia Desvoidy, loc. cit , p. L22. 
Bhinomya Desvoidy, loc. cit., n. 123. 
Pales Desvoidy. loc. cit., p. 154. 
. This synonymy is given by Macqnart 1 and repeated by Schiuer;* 
Brauer and Bergenstamm also give Pales as equivalent to Phorocera, 3 
but make no mention of the other two names: 
1. With four sternopleural and four postsutural macrochaetae, palpi 
black, second and third segments of abdomen bearing* discal 
macrochaetae, sides of front destitute of macroehaBtae outside of 
the frontal bristles, except the orbital bristles of the female; 
front in the male two-thirds as wide as, in the female slightly 
wider than, either eye: frontal bristles descending below the 
arista, the latter thickened on its basal third; third joint of 
antennae in the male six, in the female four, times as long as the 
l Aimales Soc. Ent. France, p. 420; 1850. 
-Fauna Austrica, Vol. I, p. 488; 1862. 
3 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 234; 1893. 
