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Psyche 6:247, 1891.

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April 1892.1
PSYCHE.
BY c.,'H. TYLER TOWNSEND, LAS CRUCES, N. MEXICO. I am indebted to Professor Brauer, of
Vienna, for a note to the effect that the species which I described under the name of Meigenia hyphantriae (Psyche, vi.
176)
is not a Meigenia, but a new
genus.
I have always recognized the
fact that this, and one or two other spe- cies which I have referred to Meigenia,
did not belong there strictly. They
seemed to come closest to that genus,
and therefore I referred them there pro- visionally, until some better place could be found for them. I must, however,
confess to a misconception of the genus, as originally understood by me.
The present seems a good opportu-
nity to present a characterization of the new genus.
HYPHANTROPHAGA, n. gen.
Ashy gray species of rather less than me- dium size ; belongs in Tachinincie s. str. Head rather semicircular in profile; front hardly prominent, one-third to three-sevenths width of head in 9, and about one-fourth to three- elevenths in 8 ; frontal bristles descending about to base of third antenna1 joint, two orbital bristles in 9 (three on right side in one 9 ), none in 8. Face receding, epis- toma not prominent ; facial depression three- fifths width of face in f, relatively narrower in 9, moderately deep; facial ridges with a few fine bristles which extend less than half way up, slightly constricted just above oral margin where the decussate vibrissae are in- serted; sides of face and cheeks bare, the cheeks about one-fifth eye-height in 9, less in 3. Eyes faintly and rather sparsely short hairy in 9, more distinctly so in 8. An- tennae somewhat shorter than face, second joint hardly elongate, third about two and a half times as long as second in 9 and three times in 3, narrow, notwidened; arista thin, minutely pubescent, apparently 2-jointed, slightly thickened at base. Proboscis short, fleshy, labella large; palpi rather slender, slightly thickened apically. Thorax nearly as wide as head; scutellum with a weak de- cussate apical pair of bristles, a weak discal pair, and two strong lateral pairs. Abdomen of 9 fully as wide as thorax, short oval, rather narrower than thorax in if,, ovo-coni- cal, first segment shortened ; macrochaetae marginal, except on last segment which bears both discal and marginal in both sexes ; hy- popygium of if, hardly exserted. Legs rather short, not strong, bristly; claws and pulvilli elongate in if,, much less so in
9. Wings.
longer than abdomen, without costal spine, third vein bristly at base; apical cell open, sometimes very narrowly, a little before tip of wing; fourth vein bent at an obtuse angle, without stump or wrinkle, apical cross-vein slightly concave; hind cross-vein rather sin- uate in 8, usually less so in ?, ending
nearer to bend of fourth vein. Type, Hy- phantrophaga kyċ´phantria Twns., Psyche, vi. 176-177, there referred to Metfenia. The above-referred to description in
Psyche, of the species, was drawn from
9 specimens only, and not from both
sexes as there indicated ; the whole de- scription should be applied only to fe-
males. From a 8 wh.ich issued August
31, and another a little later, are drawn' the characteristic differences given in
the above generic description, distinct- ive of that sex.




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