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way to Brazil by way of Panama and the West Indies. Occur- 

 ring, as it does, only under special conditions, it would not be 

 likely to fall into the hands of collectors. 



Chrysqmysa csnea much resembles in general appearance and 

 coloration the more familiar demandata. It may be readily rec- 

 ognized by the peculiar venation, the first posterior cell being 

 closed some distance before the margin ; in demandata the same 

 cell is narrowly open in the wing-margin. (See Figs, i and 2.) 



Euxesta quadrivittata Macq. 



Urophora quadrivittata Macquart, 1835, Hist. Nat. Dipt., Vol. 2, p. 456. 

 Euxesta annonce Loew (not Fabricius), 1872, Monogr. No. Amer. Dipt, 



Vol. 3, 162, pi. 9, fig. 13. 

 Euxesta annonce Grimshaw (not Fabricius), 1901, Fauna Hawaiiensis, Vol. 



3, p. 44- 

 Euxesta annonce Hendel (not Fabricius), 1909, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., 



Vol. 7, p. 155. . 

 Euxesta annonce Severin and Hartung (not Fabricius), 1912, Journ. Econ. 



Ent., Vol. 5, p. 448. 



The species reported by Grimshaw and others from the 

 Hawaiian Islands under the specific name annonce is not the 

 species originally characterized under that name by Fabricius. 

 This will be very obvious from a comparison of such specimens 

 with Wiedemann's excellent description of the Fabrician type 

 (Aussereurop. zweifl. Ins., Vol. 2, 1830, p. 463). Apparently 

 Loew is responsible for the transfer of the name annonce to the 

 species under present consideration, and it is only natural that 

 subsequent workers have relied upon his comprehensive and de- 

 tailed treatment of the genus. Hawaiian specimens before me 

 agree excellently with American specimens from Cuba (type 

 locality), Jamaica and Florida. 



The species is a scavenger, so that its wide dissemination is to 

 be expected. Severin and Hartung have reared the flies of this 

 species and of Notogramma stigma from larvae infesting decay- 

 ing green Chinese bananas in the Hawaiian Islands. 



The following species was received from the PhiHppine Islands, 

 but its original habitat is undoubtedly somewhere on the west 

 coast of tropical America. 



