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pherical projection on each side, the projections resembling eyes. 

 The segmentation was well-marked throughout. 



These curious specimens were placed in a breeding cage in the 

 insectary, and on June 1, an adult two-winged fly emerged. An- 



Fig. 1. Macrosargus cnprarius Linn. 

 Adult, larvae and puparium. 



other appeared June 15. These were kindly identified by Mr. C. W. 

 Johnson as Macrosargus cuprarhis Linn., a European species which 

 has become rather abundant in this country. 



As the appearance and habits of its immature stages are not 

 well-known, at least, in this country, this note and the accompany- 

 ing illustration, from a photograph by Mr. B. H. Walden, may 

 serve to call attention to it. Mr. H. B. Weiss has recently recorded 

 (Ent. News, Vol. XXV, p. 395: 1914) this species as having 

 been received in New Jersey on Azaleas, imported from Holland in 

 1913, but he does not state whether it came in the larval, pupal 

 or adult stages. 



In regard to the further distribution of this species Mr. Johnson 

 writes as follows: 



I first collected about fifty specimens of this species along Second River, above 

 Belleville, near Newark, N. J., June 12-16, 1892. The capture was recorded {Ento- 

 mology News, Vol. 7, p. 94, 1896) under the name of Sargus neheculosus Zett. which 

 is merely a variation of cuprarius. As this species had not been recorded from 



