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NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SYRPHID^E FROM 

 MT. ST. ELIAS, ALASKA. 



By CHAS. W. JOHNSON. 



The following Syrphidae were collected by Mr. H. G. Bryant 

 during- his explorations on Mt. St. Elias, in the Summer of 1897. 

 By a strange coincidence the six specimens collected represented 

 as many species, two of which are apparently new. Mr. M. D. 

 Hunter, in his interesting paper (" Can. Ent.," June, 1897, page 

 121), reviews til*? Syrphidae of Alaska, and records twenty spe- 

 cies; the following increases the number to twenty-three: 



Syrphus protrltus Osten Sacken. 



Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22. Described 

 from California. Collected by Prof. L. L. Dyche near Cook's 

 Inlet (Hunter). 



Syrphus umbellatarum Schiner. 



Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 16. " In snow, 

 altitude 1300 feet." Also collected by Prof. Dyche. White 

 Mountains, N. H. (Osten Sacken). 



Syrphus geniculatus Macquart. 



Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias. June 22. Not before 

 recorded from Alaska. Newfoundland (Macq.). White Moun- 

 tains, N. H. (Osten Sacken). 



Syrphus bryantii n. sp. $ . 



Length 7.5 mm. Eyes minutely pilose, front dark greenish, shining, 

 with an arch of black above the antennae, vertex black, shining, both 

 front and vertex sparsely covered with black hairs, face of a uniform 

 bright yellow, shining, with a few minute black hairs on the sides, tuber- 

 cle very prominent, cheeks slightly extending upward along the facial 

 orbits and the entire oval margin black, shining ; occiput greenish black 

 with yellow pile, month-parts unusually large, antennce black, lower edge 

 of the third joint brownish black, base entirely surrounded by yellow. 

 Thorax and pleurae greenish black with long yellowish pile; scutellum 

 bright yellow, lateral angles black. Halteres yellow. Abdomen deep 

 black, pile on the first, second and third segments yellow, on the fourth 

 and fifth black, longest on the sides of the first and second, the bright 

 yellow cross bands the same as Syt'p/nis umbellatarum; venter yellow with 

 "l>s<>lete blackish markings on the posterior edge of the third and fourth 

 segments. Legs yellowish, basal half of the anterior and middle femora 

 and the tarsi black, posterior femora (except the apical third), a medial 

 band on the tibice, and the tarsi black. Wings with a slight brownish 

 tinge, stigma brown. 



