170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [xxxii, '21 



The Bee Flies of North Carolina (Bombyliidae, Dip.). 



By C. S. BRIMLEY, N. C. Dept. of Agriculture, Div. of 

 Entomology, Raleigh, N. C. 



The following is a summary of our Bombyliid records to 

 date, the initials following the records being those of the fol- 

 lowing persons who have collected specimens of this group : 

 F. Sherman, Chief of the Division ; R. S. Woglum, G. M. 

 Bentley, R. W. Leiby, T. B. Mitchell, C. L. Metcalf, S. W. 

 Foster and C. S. Brimley, his assistants at various times. 



Anastoechus nitidulus Fab. Southern Pines, Sept., 1906, RSW: 

 Wilmington, Sept. 19, Oct. 4, 1919, M. Kisliuk, Jr. 



Anthrax alternata Say. Blowing Rock, July 24, 1904, FS. 



Anthrax celer Wiedemann. Raleigh, common mid-July to mid- 

 September on flowers of water parsnip and wild carrot. Beaufort. 

 Aug. 11, 1902, FS. 



Anthrax ceyx Loew. A very dark specimen of this group taken 

 at Highlands, Sept., 1906, by R. S. Woglum; doubtfully referred 

 here; the third posterior cell is undivided. 



Anthrax fulvohirta Wied. Raleigh, common early June to early 

 September. Beaufort, late June and early August, FS. Southern 

 Pines, mid-August, FS. 



Anthrax gracilis Macq. Cranberry, June 10, H. W. Wenzel, re- 

 ceived from C. W. Johnson. 



Anthrax halcyon Say. Raleigh, rnid and late June, four, CSB and 

 CLM; Southern Pines, one without date from A. H. Manee, one col- 

 lected Sept., 1906, RSW; Lumberton, Oct. 8, 1920, three, TBM. All 

 these are much paler than the Highlands "ceyx," and have the third 

 posterior cell transversely divided by a cross vein. 



Anthrax hypomelas Macq. Burnsville, Oct. 3, 1902, Blowing Rock, 

 July 24, 1904, Watauga County, July 22, 1904. All mountain locali- 

 ties and all FS records. 



Anthrax lucifer Fab. Previous to last year we had only taken 

 three specimens at Lumberton, Sept. 6, 1902, FS; Fayetteville, July 

 10, 1903, SWF, and Raleigh, Oct. 20, 1916, CSB; but in 1920 the 

 species was common at Raleigh, from early September to early 

 November, and was also taken at Laurinburg, Gibson. W T adesboro 

 and Maxton, all near the South Carolina line, by T. B. Mitchell in 

 early and mid-October. 



Anthrax lateralis Say. Common, May to early November. Locali- 

 ties: Raleigh, Beaufort, Terra Ceia, Whiteville, White Lake, South- 

 ern Pines, Gibson, Elizabethtown, Highlands and Blowing Rock. 

 Bred from pupae of Plathypena scabra by R. W. Leiby at Terra 

 Ceia in August and September, 1919. 



