694 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



D. nebulosa Fall. Clementon, V, 16. 



CURTONOTUM Macq. 



C. helva Loew. New Brunswick, VII, 7 (Sm), Westville, VII, 26, VIII, 23, 

 Princeton, VII, 21, Atco, VII, 9. 



ANTHOMYZA Fallen. 

 A. variegata Loew. Ocean Co., V (Sm), Del. Water Gap, VII, 12. 



Family DIOPSIDiE. 



Our only species belonging to this family is easily recognized by the two 

 lateral horns or processes from the side of the head upon which the eyes are 

 situated. It occurs on skunk cabbage. 



SPHYRACEPHALA Say. 

 S. brevicornis Say. "New Jersey" (Bt). 



Family DROSOPHILIDiE. 



The species in this family are small, plump, without pile, the bristles of the 

 head and legs conspicuous. Abdomen usually short and broad, genitalia not 

 prominent, colors tending to yellow. They are often abundant about decom- 

 posing or fermenting fruit, about cider-mills, wine-presses, &c, whence they 

 are called "pommace flies." The larvae live in this pommace and on the sur- 

 face of the scum of the fermenting fruit juice. 



PHORTICA Schiner. 



P. vittata Coq. Avalon, VI, 8, Delaware Water Gap, VII, 12. 



P. leucostoma Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap, VII, 8, 12, Dover, VII, 16. 



P. humeralis Loew. Westville, VII, 26, Riverton, VII, 30. 



DROSOPHILA Fallen. 



D. amcena Loew. Westville, VII, 21, Glassboro, VIII, 28 (Greene). 



D. ampelophila Loew. Common "fruit" or "vinegar fly" ; Riverton, VIII, 



IX, Glassboro, VIII, 27 (Greene), Freehold (Lockwood) : everywhere in 



the State (Sm). 

 D. funebris Fabr. Riverton, VI, 1. 



