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Genus CUPHOCERA Macq. 
Cuphocera Macqnart, Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 267; 1845. 
Palpibraea Rondani, Annali Natnralisti Napoli; 1845. 
Sphyricci-a Lioy, Atti Instituto Veneto, Vol. IX, p. 1336; 1864. 
The synonymy of the first two is according to Rondani. 1 Sphyricera 
is referred by Braner and Bergenstamm as a subgenus of Cuphocera. 2 
Our two species have three postsutural and three sternopleural macro- 
cbsetae: 
Abdomen black, the fourth segment yellowish; length, 10 to 12 mm. 
Franconia. N. H.; Massachusetts; Westville, N. J., and northern 
Illinois. (Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Vol. X X X V , p. 193 ; 1892 : 
Trichophora.) .fucata v. d. W. 
Abdomen yellowish, a dorsal black vitta on the first three seg- 
ments; length. 10 to 13 mm. Lake Worth, Fla., and California. 
(Dipteres Exotiques, Supplement IV, part II, p. 148 (175); 1849: 
Micropalpus.) calif or niensis Macq. 
Genus PELETERIA Desv. 
Peleteria Desvoidy, Essai but les Myodaires, p. 39; 1830. 
Sphyromyia Bigot, Bulletin Soc Ent. France, p. 108; 1883. 
Chcetopeleteria Mik, Wiener Kntomol. Zeitung, Vol. XIII, p. 100; March 31, 1891. 
TetrachcBta Braner and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mas. Wien, VII, p. 611; 1894. 
The synonymy of the first two is by the writer; the last two are 
given by Braner and Bergenstamm as subgenera of Peleteria. 3 Our 
species have four postsutural and three sternopleural macrochaetae : 
1. Abdomen yellow on the sides or at the apex, thorax and sides of 
front pollinose 2. 
Abdomen wholly sinning black, not pollinose, sides of front shining 
bronze black, thorax shining, almost destitute of pollen, front 
tarsi of female noticeably dilated; length, 12.5 mm. Bighorn 
.Mountains, Wyoming; Colorado, and Salmon City, Idaho. (In 
Zetterstedt's Diptera Scandinavian, Vol. VIII, p. 3217; 1849: 
Echinomyia. ? Tachina hirta Curtis, in Ross's Voyage to the 
Arctic Region, p. 70; 1831.) arnea Staeger. 
2. Second and third segments of abdomen largely or wholly gray 
pollinose; length, 10 to 14 mm. Toronto, Canada; White Moun- 
tains, New Hampshire; Allegheny, Pa. ; Ithaca, N. Y. ; northern 
Illinois; Missouri; Georgia; Texas; Denver, Colo., and Santa 
Cruz, Lake, Calaveras and Los Angeles counties, Cal. (Aus- 
sereuropaische Zweif. Insekten, Vol. II, p. 290; 1830: Tachina. 
Echinomyia analis Macquart, Dipteres Exotiques, Suppl. I, p. 
144; 1846. Tachina anaxias Walker, List of Dipterous Insects, 
Part IV, p. 72G; 1849. Echinomyia. filipalpis Rondani, Arch- 
ivio Zool. l'Anat. e Fisiologia, Vol. Ill, p. 15; 1865. Echinomyia 
1 Dipterologia 1 Italics Prodromus, Vol. I, p. 63 ; 1856. 
2 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VII, p. 613; 1894. 
3 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VII, p. 613; 1891 
