360 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xix. 



Mesograpta (an exclusively Ameri(;an genus), a couple of species of ordi- 

 nary appearance. 



Allograpta, a single specimen may belong to this genus. 



Volucella, two specimens of medium size, the body dark brownish 

 violet. 



TachinidcB, abundantly represented, as might be expected from an Ameri- 

 can mountain - fauna : among them several Bejeanice, with black or rufous 

 hairs and spines, the latter very like the species common in the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Rather numerous Muscidce and Anthomyidce, some of them resembling 

 European species, and among them the genuine 3Iusca domestica. 



A small Ortalid {Euxesta 9), some Drosophilce , a Sapromyza, a Calohata. and 

 a TcBniaptera conclude the series. 



Some of the Diptera were the only insects in the interior that 

 were aggressive. There were several species of Flies on the Quito 

 Road that assailed us wantonly and pertinaciously. Above 7000 

 feet, Musquitoes were found only at one place (and not in a situa- 

 tion where there seemed to be any special reason for their location, 

 though there must have been one), namely, upon the road between 

 Penipe and the Hacienda of Candelaria, a little below the latter 

 place, at about 9000 feet. The members of this colony were ener- 

 getic, and attacked us with spirit and determination. Musquito 

 nets were not necessary anywhere in Ecuador, although at some 

 places (Bodegas de Babahoyo, for example) they would have been 

 useful. 



Arachnid A. — The Scorpions have been identified by Prof. E. 

 Eay Lankester and Mr. R. I. Pocock, but the major part of this 

 collection has not been worked out. Spiders were found on the 

 summits of Corazon and Pichincha, and at many other nearly 

 equally elevated positions. The legions which swarmed upon the 

 slopes below indicate that entomological food Avas in abundance ; 

 and I do not doubt that there were, even in the close vicinity of 

 perpetual snow, multitudes of very minute insects that gave them 

 sustenance. 



