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(A) 1910, Dec, Johnson, Charles W., Some Additions to the Dip- 



teran Fauna of New England, Psyche, xvii, 6, p. 230. 



(B) 1912, Jan., Felt, Ephraim Porter, 27th Report of the State En- 



tomologist, N. Y., 191 1 (N. Y. State Ed. Dept., Bui. 510, 1912, 

 pp. 119, 120.) 



(C) 1915, April, Davidson, W. M., Occurrence of Eumerus (Syrphi- 



dae) in California, Can. Ent, xlvii, 4, pp. 134-135. 



(D) 1916, June, Johnson, Charles W., Some New England Syrphi- 



dae. Psyche, xxiii, 3, p. 80. 



(E) 1916, Oct., Davidson, W. M., Economic Syrphidae in California. 



Jour. Ec. Ent., Vol. 9, No. 5, p. 457. 



(F) 1916, Oct., Metcalf, C. L., Syrphidae of Maine, Me. Agr. Exper; 



Sta. Bull. 253, p. 217. 



(G) 1917, June, Gibson, Arthur, The Occurrence of Eumerus stri- 



gatus Fin. in Canada, Can. Ent., xlix, 6, pp. 190, 191. t 



Felt (B) says: "There appears to be no published record of 

 the insect having been found in America." W. M. Davidson 

 (C) and Arthur Gibson (G) in articles in the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, both accredit the first record of the species from 

 America to Felt (B). All of these atithors appear to have 

 overlooked the note by Mr. Charles W. Johnson in Psyche 

 for December, 1910 (A), which antedates the record by Felt 

 by more than a year, and which is, so far as I am aware, the 

 first published record of Eumerus in America. The specimens 

 noted by Johnson were taken in 1908 and 1909. Hence, the 

 first capture of the species on the American continent may be 

 that by Doctor Fletcher at Ottawa, in 1904, as reported by 

 Gibson (G). 



The chronological record for this species in North America, 

 so far as reported, appears therefore to be as follows : 

 1904, August 19, Ottawa, Canada; adult, Doctor Fletcher. (First cap- 

 ture) (G). 

 1906, October, reared at Washington, D. C, from bulbs from Buffalo, 

 N. Y., from Connecticut and from Brownsville, Texas ; Doctor 

 Chittenden (B). 

 1908, June 3, Buffalo, N. Y. ; aduh, M. C. Van Duzee (A). 



t Since this article was submitted for publication, there have ap- 

 peared in the Journal of Economic Entomology (Vol. 12, No. 2, April, 

 1919, p. 135) two short notes on the occurrence of these flies, by E. R. 

 Sasscer and R. C. Osburn, which further extend the known distribu- 

 tion of Bumerus strigatus to Ohio, Philadelphia. Colorado and the 

 State of Washington. 



