34 Journal New York Entomological Society, t"*'"'- -^>^vi- 



ACALYPTER^ (DIPTERA) COLLECTED IN MOBILE 

 COUNTY, ALABAMA. 



By a. H. Sturtevant, 

 New York. 



Localities. 



Gulf crest. Twenty-five miles northwest of Mobile. Elevation loo 

 feet. The records are all the result of one afternoon collecting, Nov. 



4, 1916. The locality was a sandy hillside, and a stream bordered by 

 a narrow swamp. 



Saraland. Ten miles north of Mobile. At edge of Mobile River 

 swamp. Oct. 26 and 2j, 1916. Two collecting grounds: one was along 

 the banks of a stream and in the open bog near it, just at the limit of 

 the tidewater region ; the other was a few miles west, and on a dry 

 sandy hillside. 



Mobile. All collecting was done the morning of Oct. 24, 1916, 

 along a road through the thick swamp north of the city. Garbage 

 heaps were investigated in this swamp. 



Springhill. Ten miles west of Mobile. Nov. i, 1916. Chiefly dry 

 sandy hills, but some specimens from open bogs. 



Coden. On the coast, ten miles east of the Mississippi line. One 

 afternoon, Oct. 22, 191 6. Beach, brackish marsh, and fresh-water 

 bog back half a mile from the shore. 



Kushla. Eleven miles northwest of ^Mobile. June and July, 1914; 

 April, 1915; Oct. 18-Nov. 8, 1916. Collecting in various kinds of 

 localities. Fruit and fungi were very carefully examined for Droso- 

 philida;. 



MiCROPEZID.E. 



Calobatr, lasciv?, Fabr. Kushla. 



Sepsid.ti. 



Sepsis violacea Meig. Kushla. 



5. violacea similis Macq. Kushla, Coden. 

 S. pectoralis Macq. Kushla. 



