216 FIRST ANNUAL RKPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In its reference to M. jjosticattty I have accepted the conclusions 

 reached by Dr. Williston, as a result of his recent studies of the Mal- 

 lota species — kindly given me in advance of publication in his nearly 

 completed Monograph of the SyrphidcB. 



Drosophila nmpolophila Loew. 

 The Pickled-fruit Fly. 



(Ord. DIPTERA : Fam. DROSOPHILIDiE.) 



LoEW : Dipt. Amer. Sept. indig. : in Berl. Ent. Zeit., Cent, ii, 1862, no. 99, p. 101 



(original description). 

 OsTEN Sacken : Cat. Dipt. N. Amer., 1878, p. 205 (cited, with localities). 

 LiNTNEU : in Count. Gent., Ixv, 1880, p. 7 (general notice). 

 Bowles: in Canad. Entomol., xiv, 1882, pp. 101-104. figs. 10, 11 (description, 



habit, etc.). 

 Williston : in Canad. Entomol., xiv, 1882, p. 1B8 (habits). 

 CoMSTOCK : in Ann. Kept. Commis. Agricul. for 1881-1882, (1882), pp. 198-201, pi. 



15, figs. 1-8 (detailed account). 



Some examples of a small fly were sent to me during the month of 

 December, with the statement that " they had been taken from a pan 

 of decaying peaches, and on opening some of the softest, they were 

 found filled with small white maggots. What was believed to be the 

 same kind of maggot had been found at different times in a jar of 

 sweet jam and in one of sour pickles, while the same flies were 

 abundant around them." 



The Fly Described. 



The flies were about one-eighth of an inch long, with a large 

 rounded thorax, the head and legs of a yellowish color, and the broad 

 Avings (form and venation, shown in Fig. 65) iridescent, with shades 



of green, purple, etc. They proved 

 to be identical with numerous speci- 

 mens of Drosophila amjjelophila in 

 my collection, having the memo- 

 randum of ''bred from a jar of 

 pickled plums, September, 1875." 

 They had been determined for me 



Fig. 65. — Wing of the Pickled-fruit Fly, , t. r\ l o ^ i i t 



Drosophila ampLophila; enlarged 25 dial by Baron Osteu Sacken, to whom I 



"meters. \^2i(\. communicated some of the ex- 



amples, and he has also, as I learn from Dr. Hagen, placed specimens 

 of the same, labeled as above and with the above memorandum, in the 

 collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge. 



