SYRPHIDJE. 
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Pipiza radicum , Riley, noticed and figured ; Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 
1882, p. GG, fig. 72. 
Syrphus nigricornis, Verr., and obscurus, Zett., = 4 -lunulatus, Schin.; 
Yerrall, Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 223 & 225. S. nigritarsis , Zett , and cinctus , 
Fall., are also noticed ; id. 1. c. pp. 225 & 226. Syrphus sp. destroyed by 
Entomophthora ; Cameron, P. N. H. Soc. Glasg. v. p. 4. 
Volucella , Geoffr., and Phalacromyia , Rond., discussed, and the species 
tabulated; Bigot, Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. pp. 61-88. V. scutellata, 
Macq., and spinigera, Wied., belong to Temnocera ; and many conjectures 
are risked as to the position of other described species. The following 
synonymy occurs : — V. mexicana, Macq., = dispar, Macq., and maximili- 
ani , Jaenn. ; liquida,EY.,— analis, Macq. ; pellucens , Linn., = dryophila, 
pt., Scop., pellucida, Linn., and putescens , Schellenb. ; dryophila , Scop., 
= injlata, Fabr., and hochuthi , Gimmerth. ; inanis, Linn., = trifasciata , 
Schrank, and micans , Fabr. ; vaga, Rond., nec Wied., renamed parva ; zo- 
naria, Poda, = bifasciata , Scop., inanis, Fabr. ; bornbylans , Linn., = 
melanopyrrha , Stew., pocopyges, Poda, plumata and mystacea, De Geer ; 
mystacea, Linn., = pennata, Scop., plumata, Fall., tricincta , Poda, apiaria , 
Panz. V. evecta, Walk., $ noticed. 
Sericomyia borealis, Fall., noticed; Blomfield, Naturalist, viii. p. 122, 
and Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 188 & 189. 
Mallota. Ilimatisma posticata, Macq., $ , = Syrphus cirnbiciformis, Fall. ; 
Milesia barda, Say, = the true Eristalis posticata , F abr. : Karsch, B. E. Z. 
xxvii. p. 171. 
Mallota posticata, Fabr. Transformations described ; Lintner, Rep. 
Ins. N. York, i. pp. 211-216, figs. 63 & 64. 
Merodon leneri, Mik, = aberrans, Egg. ; Mik, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxxii. 
p. 182. 
Merodon equestris, Fabr., destructive to narcissus-bulbs at Haarlem ; 
Ritsema, Cz., & Ritzema, Bos., Ent. Tijdschr. xxvi. pp. xxiii. & xxvi.- 
xxviii. 
Xylota sp. n. from Colorado briefly described, but not named ; Willis- 
ton, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xx. p. 327. 
Graptomyza lineata, Ost.-Sack., redescribed by him; Solenaspis beccarii , 
Ost.-Sack., =: Plagiocera nitens, Big. : Osten-Sacken, Ann. Mus. Genov, 
xviii. p. 19. 
Plagiocera magnifica, Big., belongs to Liops ; Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. (6) iii. p. 225. 
New genera and species : — 
Cartosyrplius , Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. 230. Allied to Chi- 
losia ; cliajtum and eyes smooth. To include 0. means , auett., schmidti, 
gilvipes , ? puber a, P lugubris , ? pusilla, Zett., pedemontana and subalpina, 
Rond., pagana , Meig., sparsa , Low, maculata , Fall., and ? signata and 
? mutabilis , Schin. 
Eurimyia, id. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. xx. Allied to Tropidia . 
Type, E. rhingioides, sp. n., 1. c. p. xxi., France [= Rhingia lineata , Fabr., 
= muscaria, Panz. ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. 226]. 
