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Several of the species, however, do not appear in the col- 

 lections made at other localities, namely, Rhypholophnsfaveolus 

 sp. nov. Coq., one of the Tipulidae ; Lcria fraterna (Loew), 

 one of the Helomyzidas originally described from Alaska ; and 

 three new species of Ichneumonidae. 



SELDOVIA, KENAI PENINSULA 



July 21. On July 21 a small party, including the entomol- 

 ogist, was landed at this settlement with the expectation that an 

 opportunity would be afforded to explore the neighborhood for 

 several days, but circumstances arose rendering it necessary to 

 embark on the steamer the following day. It is a matter for 

 regret that a more adequate opportunity was not offered for 

 making collections at this locality, which promised to yield as 

 rich a series of insects as any visited by the Expedition. 



The Kenai Peninsula is very rugged and in part heavily tim- 

 bered, but the variety of flowering plants in bloom was surpris- 

 ing. Within a radius of one hundred yards from our camp the 

 writer collected over thirty species of plants in various stages 

 of bloom, including Epilobium spicatwn, Rosa sp., Heracleum 

 lanatum, Comarmn pahistre, JVuphar, Sjbirtsa, Pcdicularis, 

 Achillca miUifolium, Ligusticum, Pyrola, P7cia, Lathyrus, 

 Amclanchier^ Galhim, Potentilla, Aquilcgia^ Sangm'sorba, and 

 Oxytropis. 



The collection of insects comprised 115 species, but the ma- 

 jority of these had already been seen at other points, either to the 

 southward, at Yakutat and Sitka, or to the westward, at Kukak, 

 Popof Island, and Kadiak. The principal novelties occurred 

 in the Diptera, including Tipula macrolabis Loew, originally 

 described from Hudson Bay ; Chilosia pulchrtycs Loew, a 

 European Syrphid new to the American fauna and obtained 

 also at Kukak ; Chilosia tristis Loew ; Leucozona leucorum 

 (L.), also taken at Popof Island ; Empis brachysoma sp. nov. 

 Coq.; Sepsis favimana Meigen, a European species not pre- 

 viously reported from America ; Scatclla setosa sp. nov. Coq. ; 

 and Agromyza lacteipennis Fallen, another addition of Euro- 

 pean insects to American lists. 



The collection of Coleoptera comprised twenty-two species, 



