C. W. Johnson.
The Velutinous Species of the Genus Chrysopilus.
Psyche 19(3):108-110, 1912.

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108 Psyche [June
on wild fig (A. Busck); Havana, Cuba (S. Fernandez); Cayamas, Cuba, 28 May, 10 June, in house (E. A. Schwarz); Baracoa, Cuba, Sept., 1901 (A. Busck); Kingston, Jamaica, 11-9-07 (M. Grabham); St. Domingo, 8 June, 1905 (A. Busck); Ceara Brazil (F. D. de Rocha); S. Paulo, Brazil, bred from peaches (R. von Ihering); Buenos Ayres, Argentina. THE VELUTINOUS SPECIES OF THE GENUS
CHRYSOPILUS.
Among the species of the genus Chrysopilus is a small group of velvety looking flies with dark smoky wings. These show an interesting combination of colors :-velvety black, with or without golden tomentum on the thorax and silvery white tufts of hairs on the abdomen, and comprise some of our most beautiful species of diptera of eastern and central North America. The group consists of four species, which can be readily defined by the fol- lowing table:-
1. Thorax entirely velvety black. ......................................... 2 Thorax covered with a dense golden tomentum. .......................... 3 2. Abdomen entirely velvety black. .......................... .velutinus hew. Abdomen with two rows of tufts of white pile. ............. .connexus sp. nov. 3. Abdomen entirely velvety black ............................ .davisi Johns. Abdomen with two rows of transverse tufts of white or light yellow pile thoracicus Fabr.
Chrysopilus connexus sp. nov.
Male and Female.
Front and face velvety black, antennee, proboscis and palpi black, the latter and the inferior orbits with long black hairs. Thorax with velvety
black tomentum, scutellum with long black hairs and a tuft of yellowish hairs in front of the halteres in the male, pleurae brownish back. Abdomen velvety black with two rows of tufts of white hairs on the posterior margins of the first to fifth segments, very small on the fifth segment of the male and apparently wanting in the female, the other tufts are more conspicuous in the female than in the male, venter velvety black, cox= and femora black, tibiae and tarsi yellow. Halteres brown.
Wings smoky with the veins broadly margined with brown. Length male, 11 mm., female, 12 mm.
North Carolina Holotype (male) and Allotype in the U, S. National Museum. Paratype in the author's collection. I am Pn&f 19:108-109 (1912). http://psyche enlchtbwa/i9/I9-1W html



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19121 Johnson-Velutinous Species of the Genus Chrysopilus 109 indebted to Mr. 'Frederick Knab for the privilege of describing this species. The specimen figured in the insect book by L. 0. Howa,rd, pi. 16, fig. 23, is this species and not C. velutinus. It is marked "Fla. " Specimens are in the collection of Mrs. Slosson from Hot Springs, N. C.
The distribution of two of the species is quite wide. C. davisi is known only from the type locality, Clayton, Georgia. C. velutinus Illinois (type locality), Kentucky (Osten Sacken), and St. Augustine, Fla. (C. W. Johnson). C. thoracicus, was described from "Carolina. " I have no record south of Maryland and Virginia. It is common in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connec- ticut and western and central Massachusetts. I have not seen it from the eastern part of the State, nor north of Massachusetts, although L. E. Hood (PSYCHE, July 1892, p. 283), recorded it from Mt. Lincoln, N. H. and Maine. F. L. Washburn records it from Minnesota, but intermediate records are very scarce. The writer found the larva of this species in a wet decayed log along Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pa., Apr. 27; it pupated May 8 and the imago appeared May 30.
The original spelling of the generic name is Chrysopilus not Chryopila and the date 1826 not 1827.
In looking for records my attention was called to figure 75, in the Diptera of Minnesota (Tenth Ann. Kept., p. 84, 1905), by F. L. Washburn. The figure represents Atherix variepta Walk. and not Leptis mystacea female, the head would indicate a male. The following extract from a recent order of the Postmaster General will be of interest to entomologists. "Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a copy of a cer- tificate of the current year from a State or Government apiary inspector to the effect that the apiary from which said queen bees are shipped is free from dis- ease or by a copy of a statement by the bee-keeper made before a notary public or other officer having a seal that the honey used in making the candy used in the queen mailing cage has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel; beneficial insects, when shipped by departments of entomology in agri- cultural colleges and persons holding official entomological positions; other live



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