316 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. VIII, 
The European species /eachit Curtis, about the generic 
position of which there is a doubt, has been recorded by Perris 
at different times as bred from Boletus in a hollow oak, from 
rotten wood from oak and from turnip stems.* 
Eupachygaster Kertesz. 
I have provisionally placed the following species in Eupachy- 
gaster, a genus erected by Kieffer for the reception of tarsalis 
Zetterstedt.t It is unfortunate that I am not in possession 
of both sexes, for this fact prevents me from arriving at a 
definite opinion regarding the generic status of the species. 
From tarsalis the present species differs in having the antenne 
inserted at middle of frons, but I consider this character 
insufficient alone to permit a generic separation. The specimen 
I refer to in the notes on the present species as being in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., has 
puzzled me. If it is a female it undoubtedly represents a 
distinct species; whereas if it is a male punctzfer it is a departure 
from the rule in having the third antennal joint larger than in 
the female; and because of the wide frons the species would 
also be removed from Eupachygaster. 
Eupachygaster punctifer, n. sp. 
Female——Glossy black. Frons glossy black, with a subopaque 
M-shaped mark on center, the surface of which is clothed with short 
silvery pile; lateral margins silvery from lower extremity of the 
M-shaped mark downward; face brownish, clothed with silvery pilosity; 
proboscis yellow; antennze yellow, inner surface from before apex of 
third joint to apex of sixth distinctly brownish; arista white, yellowish 
at base. Thorax glossy black, disc with numerous small punctiform 
groups of silvery scalelike hairs, those on median and submedian lines 
forming three irregular narrow stripes; scutellum without silvery hairs. 
Abdomen glossy black, the punctiform groups of silvery hairs present 
except on disc of first and second segments. Legs pale yellow; fore 
coxee black, mid and hind coxe and all femora except their bases and 
apices brown. Wings clear; veins and stigma yellow. Halteres brown, 
knob white except the extreme base. 
Frons, at vertex, about one-fourth the width of head, the sides 
diverging towards antenne, at its lower extremity one-third the head- 
width; ocellar region distinctly raised, profile as in Figure 13; antenne 
short, apical portion consisting of at least five joints; basal joint of 
arista short and broad, apical joint elongate, densely clothed with short 
hairs, so that it appears to be flattened and rather sword-shaped (Fig. 7). 
*Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1870, p. 212, 1. e¢. 1876, p. 180 and p. 193. 
tler Cong. Intern. d’Entomol. Brux., 1910, p. 31. 1911. 
