OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVII, 1915 147 



of Dr. Ewing's is the first record of the genus in America. Such 

 is not so. Stoll, in the Acari of the Biol. Cent. Amer., published 

 over twenty years ago, describes a species from Guatemala 

 (Nicoletiella neotropical . 



PUPA OF BRAGHYPALPUS FRONTOSUS L\v. 



BY H. L. PARKER, 

 Bureau oj Entomology. 



A puparium of this rather common syrphid fly was found by 

 the writer February 18 last on top of the mountain range lying 

 south of Hagerstown, Md. It was under a growth of the moss 

 Polytrichium ohioensis and was placed in a tin box and kept in 

 a moist condition indoors. An adult fly emerged March 15, 

 which was determined by Mr. Walton as Brachypalpus frontosus 

 Loew. The puparium proper is 11 mm. long, of the usual syrphid 

 shape, namely that of a pear flattened on one side, without 

 lateral appendages and brownish in color. The anal end is pro- 

 duced in a distinct cauda about 4 mm. in length, bearing at its 

 base three or four pairs of filamentous lateral appendages. 



CAPTURES OF THE SYRPHID FLY, MERAPIOIDUS VIL- 



LOSUS BIGOT. 



BY R. C. SHANNON, 

 Bureau oj Entomology. 



This fly has been recorded but three times, so far as the writer 

 is aware, and recent captures by him and others may be of inter- 

 est. Six specimens were taken at sap of sugar maple March 13 

 and 14, 1915, at Dead Run, Fairfax Co., Va. On the latter date, 

 Mr. McAtee also took a specimen on a maple bud on Hummer's 

 Island, Md., and Mr. Banks on the same day took two specimens 

 at sap of swamp maple at Falls Church, Va. Four days later 

 Mr. Greene and the writer each took a specimen at Dead Run, 

 one at sap and the other resting on the trunk of a beech tree. 



Bigot described this genus and species (Bull. Soc. Ent. de France, 

 1879, p. L) from Georgia. Williston recorded a specimen from 

 Georgia (North American Syrphidae, 1886, p. 244). This speci- 

 men and another collected by Morrison in North Carolina were 

 the only examples in the National Collection. Metcalf (Syrphidse 

 of Ohio, Ohio State Univ. Bull., Vol. XVII, No. 31, p. 96. 1913) 

 records three specimens from Ohio, two of them taken April 



