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P. fuscus Loew. Montreal VI (Be). 

 P. horvarthi Kert. Montreal IX (Be). 

 P. nitidiventris Loew. Montreal V (Be). 

 P. subopacus Loew. Montreal (C). 

 P. subvirescens Loew. Montreal (C). 



Family SYRPHIDAE. 



The "Flower-flies" are brightly coloured, often resembling wasps with their black 

 bodies banded w^ith yellow. They live on the nectar or pollen of flowers. The larvae of 

 some of these flies live on plant lice, others on leaves and pollen of plants, others again on 

 decaying vegetable matter and foul excrement. 



MiCRODON Meig. 



M. fuscipennis Macq. St. Johns VII and IX (C); Montreal (Be). 



M. globosus Fabr. P.Q. (C). 



M. tristis Loew. St. Johns VII (C); Montreal VII (Be). 



CHRYSOGASTER Meig. 



C. nigripes Loew. Rigaud V (C). 



C. pictipennis Loew. Montreal VI (Be); Rigaud V (Be). 



C. pulchella Willst. Montreal V-VI (C); Rigaud VI (Be). 



PIPIZA Fallen 



P. calcarata Loew. Montreal VI (Be). 



P. ffemoralis Loew. Montreal V-VI (C); Rigaud V-VI (C); Gatineau (Be). 



P. modesta Loew. St. Johns VI (C). 



P. nigripilosa Willst. Sherbrooke V (C); St. Hilaire V (Be). 



P. pulchella Willst. Rigaud VI (Be). 



P. radicum Walsh and Rilev ( =pistica Willst). Sherbrooke IX (I'abbe Begin); Montreal 



(C). 



PARAGUS Latr. 



P. angustlffrons Loew. Montreal (C). 



P. bicolor Fabr. St. Johns VI-VII (C); Montreal VII-VIII (C); Rigaud VI-VII (C); Gati- 

 neau VII (Be). 



