80 Psyche [June 



and not the result of recent importations of bulbs. A specimen 

 from Blue Hill, June 5, 1910, represents the var. narcissi Fabr., a 

 specimen from Mr. J. G. Jack, the var. transversalis Meig. and one 

 collected by the writer near Great Barrington, Mass., June 16, 

 1915, the typical equestris. 



Xylota nemorum Fabr. 



This species has been taken by the writer at Chester, Mass., 

 August 4, 1911, and at the Halfway House, Mt. Washington, N. H., 

 July 6, 1914. 



Eumerus strigatus Fallen. 



This species has recently been taken by Mr. R. T. Webber, at 

 Melrose Highlands, ]\Iass. 



Syrphus xylotoides sp. nov. 



9 . Face yellow, covered with a white pollen which extends as 

 a wide margin on each side of the front to the vertex, leaving wide 

 frontal stripe of shining black, vertex facial stripe, and a stripe on 

 the cheek also black, hairs on the front and vertex black, on the 

 face and occiput white, eyes hairy, antennae black. Thorax bluish, 

 shining, slightly pollinose, with a large white pollinose marking on 

 the sides in front of the suture, pleura whitish pollinose with long 

 white hairs, scutellum shining blue-black, margin yellowish. Ab- 

 domen long, narrow, cylindrical, black, two large light yellow 

 quadrate spots occupy most of the second segment leaving only a 

 narrow dorsal line and a wide posterior margin, third segment with 

 two yellow spots near the base, fourth and fifth segments greenish, 

 shining, the former with two small grayish pollinose spots near 

 the base. Legs, the front and middle yellow, base of the femora 

 and a band on the tibiae and tarsi blackish, the posterior legs except 

 the base of the tibiae black. Halteres yellow. Wings grayish 

 hyaline. Length, 11 mm. 



Three specimens. Holotype and paratype. Great Barrington, 

 Mass., June 16, 1915, in the collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. One paratype, Amherst, Mass., in the collection 

 of the State Agricultural College. 



