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*obesa Fahricius, Svst. Eat. p. 763, 5 (Syrphus) ; Ent. Syst. IV, p. 283 {id.); 



Syst. Antl.p. 227 (id.) ; Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, p. 199; Macquart, Hiat. 



Nat. Dipt. I, p. 494, 5; St. Fargeau et Serville, Encyclop. Method. X, p. 



786 (Orindia). In the tropics everywhere; West Indies; South America; 



Asia ; Africa, 

 picta Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, p. 201; Bigot, in R. de la Sagra, etc., p. 802. 



Brazil (Wied.); Cuba (Bigot). 

 postica Say, J. Acad. Phil. VI, p. 1G6, 2. Mexico. 

 *sexpunctata Loew, Wien. Entom. Monatschr. V, p. 39; Centur. VI, 37. 



Cuba. 

 tibialis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ler Suppl. p. 123, 4. Yucatan. 

 1 violacea Say, J. Acad. Phil. VI, p. 166, 1. Mexico. 



TEMNOCERA. 



St. Fargeau et Serville, Encycl. Method. X, p. 786, 1825. 

 *megacephala Loew, Centur. IV, 57. California. 



*pubescen9 Loew, Wien. Ent. Mon. V, p. 38; id. Centur. VI, 35. Cuba. 

 *pnrpurascen8 Loew, Centur. VIII, 52. Hayti. 



unilecta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. V, p. 292. Mexico. 



Yiridula Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. Ser. V, p, 293. Mexico. 



SERICOMYIA. • 



Meigen, in Illig. Mag. II, 1803. 



*chalcop)'g'a Loew, Centur. Ill, 20. Sitka. 



*limbipenni9 Macquart, Dipt. Exot. 2e Suppl. p. 58, 2 ( 2 ). tTnited States 

 and Canada. 

 Sericomyia chrysotoxoideSi'M&cqu&vi, Dipt. Exot. II, 2, p. 19, 1; Tab. Ill, 



fig. 8 Us. ( 5 ). 

 Sericomyia filia Walker, List, etc. , III, p. 596. 

 *iuilitaris Walker, List, etc., Ill, p. 595. Huds. B. Terr.; Nova Scotia; White 

 Mts., N. H.; Colorado Mts. ; Red River of the North. 

 sexfasciata Walker, List, etc.. Ill, p. 596. Huds. B. Terr. 



Observation. — Volucella lappona O. Fabricius, Fauna Groenl. p. 208, 169, 

 must be a Sericomyia; whether it is Seric. lappona Linn! I do not know ; 

 Schiodte omits it in his enumeration. 



