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1881): Mamcera. Achcetoheura sp., and Parafrontina sp., Brauer 
and Bergenstamm in lift.) archippiwra 1 Will. 
Front in the male at most slightly wider than, in the female one and 
one-third times as wide as, either eye, front pulvilli of male 
slightly longer than the last tarsal joint; length, o to 11 mm. 
Canada; Beverly, Mass. ; Xew Jersey; Pennsylvania; Lakeland, 
Md.; District of Columbia; Virginia; Brookville, Ind. : Carbon- 
dale, HI.; Missouri, and California. (In Scudder's Butterflies 
of New England, Vol. Ill, p. 1923; 1889: Masicera. Achceto- 
neura hesperus Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. 
Wien; V, p. 331; 1891. Phorocera promiscua 2 Townsend, Psyche, 
Vol. VI, p. 81; May, 1891. Mci<jcnia websteri Townsend, Cana- 
dian Entomologist. Vol. XX III. p. 20 ! ; October, 1891. Masicera 
schizuree 2 Townsend, Psyche, Vol. VI, p. 187; December, 1891: 
from a co-type specimen received from Mr. Townsend. Masicera 
datanarum Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XIX, p. 287; 
December, 1892. Tachina anonyma Riley MS.: from the pro- 
posed type specimen. Achwtoneura sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm 
in lift. Prosopaza sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm in lift. Hemi- 
masicera sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm in lift.). . . .frenchii Will. 
6. Abdomen in both sexes yellow on sides of the third segment, second 
segment in the male bearing a marginal pair of macrocnaetae, or 
else his front pulvilli only three-fourths as long as the last tar- 
sal joint 7. 
Abdomen of the female black, at most with a yellow spot each side 
of the second segment, this segment in both sexes destitute of 
a marginal pair of macrochaetae, front pulvilli of male slightly 
longer than the last tarsal joint, third joint of antenna 4 of male 
from two and three-fourths to live, in the female from two and 
three-fourths to three and one-third, times as long as the second; 
length, G to 11 mm. Toronto, Canada; Beverly, Mass.; Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.; District of Columbia; Georgia; Charlotte Harbor, 
Florida; Mississippi; Brazoria, Tex.; Los Angeles, Cal., and 
Venezuela, South America. (Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XI, 
p. 162; 1879: Tachina: from a co type specimen. Tachina fra- 
terna Comstock, Iieport Commissioner Agric. for 1879, p. 303; 
1880. Prosopwa sp. Brauer and Bergenstamm in lift. Thysan- 
omyia sp. Brauer and Bergenstamm in lift.) aletice Biley. 
1 This species is usually credited to Riley, but be never described it so far as I am 
aware. 
-In Psyche for June, 1893. page 407. Mr. Townsend reports having received from 
Professor Forbes two Tachina flies bred "from pupa-' of Eucluvtes cfjle. Breeding 
cage, May 4, 1880." One of tbese be refers to Masicera scliizuros and tbe other to 
Prospherysa promiscua, apparently without suspecting that both of them belonged 
to one and the same species. 
