^m.'^o. XEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS DOLICHOPUS ALDKIOH. 6 



DOLICHOPUS RUPESTRIS Haliday. 



DoUchopus rupestris Haliday, Entomologists' Magazine, vol. 1, 1833, p. 



164.— Van Duzee, Cole, and Aldrich, Bull. 116, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 112, 



1921. 

 DoUchopus festinans Zetteestedt, Insecta Lapponica, 1838, p. 708. 



Fourteen specimens, from Healy. and Camps 327 and 334, Alaska, 

 June 26 to July 13. Described from Great Britain and well known 

 from nortliern Europe. Frey says it is very rare in Southern Fin- 

 land, but one of the comm.oner species of the genus in Lapland and on 

 the Kola Peninsula. 



DOLICHOPUS BREVIPENNIS Meigen. 



DoUchopus hrempennis Meigen, Syst. Bcsclir., vol. 4, p. 89, 1824.- — Van Duzee, 

 Cole, and Aldkich, Bull. 116, p. 130, 1921. 



Thirty specimens, from Hurricane, Camp 334, and Healy, Alaska, 

 June 29 to July 3. Originally described from Germany ; common in 

 Denmark (Lundbeck) ; common throughout Finland (Frey). First 

 reported from North America by Osten Sacken, on the identification 

 of Loew ; only a female remains of this lot in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the species ap- 

 parently has not been collected in North America again until now. 



DOLICHOPUS RAMIFER Loew. 



DoUchopus rainifer Loew, Neue Beitriige, No. 8, p. 19, 1861; Smiths. 

 Misc. Colls., No. 171, p. 52. 1864.— Van Duzee, Cole, and Aldrich, Bull, 

 116. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 147. 1921. 



Two specimens, Fairbanks, Alaska. July 1. The species occurs as 

 far south as Indiana and Kansas, and even Los Angeles, California. 



DOLICHOPUS OBCORDATUS Aldrich. 



DoUchopus ohcordatus Aldrich, Kansas Univ. Quarterly, p. 14, 1893. — Van 

 Duzee, Cole, and Aldrich, Bull. 116, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 173, 1921. 



Four specimens, Fairbanks and Healy, Alaska, June 26 to July 3. 

 A common species in the western mountains of the United States, not 

 hitherto reported farther north than Nelson. British Columbia. 



DOLICHOPUS PLUMIPES ScoDoli. 



Musca plumipes Scopoli, Entomologia carnlolica, 1763, p. 334. 

 DoUchopus plumipes Van Duzee, Cole, and Aldrich, Bull. 116. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., p. 183, 1921. 



Sixteen specimens, from Seward. Anchorage, Healy, and Fairbanks, 

 Alaska. Described from Carniola, the species extends widely through 

 Europe; Frey lists it as common throughout the whole of Finland. 

 In the United States it extends as far south as South Dakota, Maine, 

 and (in mountains) New Mexico. It has been reported from Alaska 

 several times. 



