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7. Front pulvilli of male distinctly longer than the last tarsal joint, 
fourth segment of abdomen in both sexes black except the front 
corners, third joint of antenna' in the male four, in the female 
from two and three-fourths to three and one third, times as long 
as the second; length, 7 to 8 mm. District of Columbia. (List 
of Dipterous Insects, Part IV, p. 788; 1849: Tachina. Maxivera 
dubia Williston, in Scudder's Buttertiies of New England, Vol. 
Ill, p. 1924; 1889. Masicera sphingivora Townsend, Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Sbc, Vol. XIX, p. 2SG- Dec., 1892.). r violenta Walk. 
Front pulvilli of male only three-fourths as long as the last tarsal 
joint, fourth segment of abdomen in both sexes yellow except a 
narrow black dorsal vitta, third joint of antenna' in both sexes 
two and one half times as long as the second: length, 8 mm. 
Jacksonville, Fla. (List of Dipterous insects. Part IV, p. 788; 
L849: Tachina. Masicera rileyi Williston, iu Scudder's Butter- 
flies of Xcw England, Vol. 111. p. 1924; L889.). . irrequieta Walk. 
Unrecognized species, — F.t [ Tachina) dydas Walker; Brit. Amer. 
Genus STURMIA Desv. 
Sturmin Desvoidy, Essai Buries Myodaires, p. 171; 1830. 
Blejpharipa Rondani, Dipterologite Italics Prodromus, Vol. I, p. 71; 1856. 
Ctenocnemia Kowarz, Verhand. Zool. Botao. Gesell. Wien, Vol. XXII, p. 460; 1873. 
Blepharipoda Brauerand Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, IV, p. 96; 1889. 
Argyrophylax Brauerand Bergenstamm, loc. cit.,p. 163. 
Blepbaripa was proposed for the genus Sturmia of Desvoidy, owing 
to the fact that tbe latter name bad been previously used in botany; 
but, according to present usage, botanical names do not interfere with 
those employed in /oology. Ctenocnemis and Blepharipoda were pro- 
posed to take the place of Blepbaripa, owing to tbe faulty construction 
of the latter name. In the Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 213; 1893, 
Brauer and Bergenstamm reduce Argyrophylax to the rank of a sub- 
genus of Blepharipoda. 1 All of our species have four postsutural 
macrochaetse : 
1. With four sternopleural macrochsBtse 7. 
With three sternopleural macrochaetse 2. 
With only two sternopleurals: black, the palpi, at least on the api- 
cal half, and apex of proboscis, yellow ; front of female from two- 
thirds to three-fourths as wide as either eye, two pairs of orbital 
bristles, a stout baekwardly curving macrochaetse between them 
and the frontal bristles, the latter descending nearly to middle 
] In Scudder's Nomenclator Zoologicus, Supplemental List (p. 46), 1882, is cited a 
Blepharopoda Rondani, Nuovi Annali Sci. Xat. Bologna, Ser. 3, Vol. II, p. 362; 1851, 
and ou page 92 of the same work the geuus Ctenocnemis of Kowarz is, on tbe authority 
of Mr. Verrall, made synonymous with Blepharopoda. The writer has been unable 
to consult the above-mentioned paper by Rondani, but if Mr. Verrall's reference is 
correct, the name of and reference to Blepharopoda Rond. should be inserted imme- 
diately after Sturmia in the above list of synonyms. 
