202 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Otomasicera Townsend, 12-113. 

 O. patella Townsend, 12-113 (adult not described). 

 Mass.— Melrose Highlands, June 8, 1909. 



Metatachina Townsend, 19-588. 

 M. mellifrons Townsend, 19-588. 

 Me. — Sehago Lake, Sept. 8, 1914 {Townsend). 



Compsilura Bouclie, 1834. 

 C. concinnata Meigen. 

 Me.— 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. N. H.— 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Vt.— 16, 18, 



19, 20, 21, 22. June 24-Sept. 28. 

 Mass.— 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. R. I.— 33. Conn.— 



35. May 10-Sept. 20. 



Introduced and colonized by the U. S. Bureau of Entomology 

 as a parasite of the Gipsy and Brown-tail Moths in 1906, it has 

 increased and spread over a large part of New England. It also 

 parasitizes at the present time (1923) upwards of one hundred of 

 our native moths, butterflies, saw-flies, etc. See Howard and 

 Fiske, 11-218; Burgess, 15-9; Culver, 1919. 



Zygobothria Mik. 

 Z. nidicola Townsend, 08-99. 

 Me.— 6, 9, 10. N. H.— 13, 14, 15. 

 Mass.— 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. R. I.— 33. Conn.— 



35. July- Aug. 



An imported parasite of the Brown-tail Moth, introduced in 

 1906 and now widely distributed. Regarding its appearance in 

 Connecticut Dr. W. E. Britton says: "Not introduced into the 

 State, but taken at Canterbury and Waterford in 1917 and 

 Stonington and Groton in 1918." See Meusebeck, 1922. 



Pelatea Townsend, 16-178. 

 P. ruficomis Smith, 17-138. 

 N. H. — Hampton, July 25 {Shaw). 



P. unicolor Smith, 17-137. 



Me.— 5, 8, 9. N. H.— 11. Vt.— 17. July 1-Sept. 13. 



Mass.— 23, 26, 27, 29. Conn.— 35. June 17-Aug. 30. 



Parachaeta Coquillett. 

 P. fusca Townsend, 16-11 (P. hicolor Coquillett, not Macquart; 



P. inermis Coquillett, not Bigot). 

 Mass. — Forest Hills, July 19 {Bequaert). 



Blepharipeza Macquart. 

 B. adusta Loew. 



Me.— 6. N. H.— 11, 15. Vt.— 17, 19, 22. May 2- Aug. 28. 

 Mass.— 23, 26, 27, 29. R. I.— 33. Conn.— 35. May 9- 



Sept. 4. 



Parasitic on Leucarctia acraea, etc. 



