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Hawaii (Grimshaw). The following Old World localities are 

 represented by specimens in the U. S. National Museum : Hono- 

 lulu, Hawaiian Islands, March 2, 1907 (O. H. Swezey) ; Island of 

 Guam (D. T. Fullaway) ; Manila, Philippine Islands (Brunetti) ; 

 Telec-Ayer, West Borneo (Brunetti) ; Lourengo Marquez, East 

 Africa (C. W. Howard) ; Brisbane, Queensland (Dept. of Mines 

 and Agriculture) ; Croydon, New South Wales. 



As already stated, this species has now become established in 

 at least one locahty in the United States. Specimens were first 

 submitted by Dr. B. H. Ransom, of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, on August 28, 1 91 5, he having reared them from pupse ob- 

 tained from manure at Tallulah, Louisiana. Since then the 

 Bureau of Entomology has caused a series of captures of flies to 

 be made in the vicinity of Tallulah. Most of these catches were 

 taken from mule barns, and nearly every such lot examined con- 

 tained specimens of this species. Therefore there can be no 

 doubt that the species is well estabhshed in this country. Chryso- 



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Chrysomysa cenea Fab. Chrysomysa demandata Fab. 



myza demandata occurred in the same captures, but in smaller 

 numbers. The two species evidently have very similar habits. 

 Mr. O. H. Swezey, in Hawaii, has reared Chrysomysa cenea from 

 maggots that were very abundant in a manure pile (Proc. Haw. 

 Ent. Soc, Vol. 3, 1914, p. 12). 



While the introduction of this species into the United States 

 evidently is very recent, it appears from other material that it has 

 been estabhshed for some time in tropical America. The Na- 

 tional Museum possesses a series from Ceara, Brazil, sent by F. 

 D. da Rocha in July, 1904. The species was therefore without 

 much doubt estabhshed on the northeast coast of Brazil at that 

 time. It seems altogether probable that the species is widely dis- 

 tributed in the American tropics, having, most hkely, found its 



