ART. 9 DIPTEEA FROM AMERICA, ASIA, AND JAVA ALDRICH 11 



and northern Argentina. None have been reported from the West 

 Indies, nor from the United States. 



All the references to occurrence from Panama north are the fol- 

 lowing : 



Rhinotora diversa Giglio-Tos was described from Tuxpango, 

 Mexico. 



Rhopalouiera wanthops Williston was described from Yucatan; 

 the collector being Gaumer, the species was probably taken near 

 Merida. 



Rhopalotnera femorata Fabricius, described from South America, 

 is reported by Lindner from Guatemala and Mexico. 



WiUistoniella pleuropunctata Wiedemann, described from South 

 America, is reported from Playa Vicente, Mexico, by Giglio-Tos; 

 from the Volcano Colima, Mexico, by Lindner; and I have identi- 

 fied it from Corozal, Canal Zone, where Mr. Zetek bred it from 

 trunk of coconut palm. 



Genus SCATOPHAGA Meigen 



Scatophaga Meigen, Illiger's Mag. fiir Insekt., vol. 2, p. 277, 1803. 



SCATOPHAGA GIGANTEA, new species 



A very large species, the male with dense long fulvous hair on 

 abdomen, legs, and pleurae ; hair on mosonotum black. 



Male. — Front prominent, angular at antennae; eye oblique; cheek 

 high, especially behind, about equal to height of eye; back of head 

 very bulging; palpi a little shorter than proboscis. Front broad, 

 with a narrow black orbit covered with yellow pollen ; frontal stripe 

 almost half the width of the head, deep red, the middle portion 

 blackish and having a bluish reflection; parafacial and anterior 

 half of cheek red with bluish reflections ; antennae black, third joint 

 hardly twice the second and reaching five-sixths of the way to prin- 

 cipal vibrissae; arista pubescent; palpi reddish yellow, with long 

 black hairs below from near base to tip ; proboscis black, its princi- 

 pal segment shorter than height of head. Back of head with black 

 hair on upper half or about to lower edge of eye, the rest covered 

 with the same long fulvous pile as the pleurae and femora. Inner 

 vertical bristles long, oeellars slightly shorter, the row of frontals 

 still shorter, all slender. About a dozen slender bristles in a row 

 from epistoma to and a little above the main vibrissa. 



Thorax black with dense fulvous pollen above and on the scutel- 

 lum and pleurae ; mesonotum with erect long delicate black hair and 

 a few bristles; the most distinct bristles are the posterior notopleu- 

 ral; three supraalar; on intraalar, far back; two postalar; and 



