370 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OP 



BOMBYLIIDAE. The Bee Flics 



Look for them on the bloom of low growing plants such as 

 bluets (Houstonia caerulea) and Low blueberry bushes in dry 

 sunny places. 



Anthrax Scopoli 



A. oedipus Fab. Bar Harbor; Tremont, July 29-Aug. 23. 

 Parasitic in the nests of solitary wasp (Odynerus). 



Exoprosopa Macquart 



E. capucina (Fab.). S. W. Harbor; Salisbury Cove, July 15. 

 E. calypteea Say. Section 28, July 20. Bare. 



Poecilanthrax Osten Sacken 



P. tegminipennis Say. One taken in a sand pit at Sea Wall, 

 Aug. 24, '36. S. W. Harbor, July 17-Aug. 21 (Fernald). 



Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken 



V. lateralis (Say). Common, July 29-Aug-. 23; Great varia- 

 tion in size. 



V. lateralis var. gracilis Macq. Bar Harbor; S. W. Harbor, 

 July 15-22. 



Villa Lioy (Anthrax of authors) 



V. alterxata (Say). Station F260; Wood road Eden, July 



31-Aug. 8. 

 V. hypomelas Macq. S. W. Harbor, Aug. 5-22. This has 



been bred from one of the cut-worms. 

 V. fulvlvxa var. nigricauda (Loow). Common, July 19-Sept. 



6. 

 V. morio (Linn.). Bar Harbor; Eden; S. W. Harbor, June 



11- July 17. 



Bombylius Linnaeus 



B. major Linn. Morrell Park on "bluets," May 27; Station 



F236. 

 B. pygmaeus Fab. Bar Harbor, June 7-11. Morrell Park, 



May 27; Newport Meadow, June 11. 



