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Hilara quadrivittata Meigen. 



Hilara quadrivittata Meigen, Syst. Besch. Eur. Zweif. Ins., ill, p. 7, 1822. — 

 ScHiNER, Fauna Austriaca, Diptera, i, p. 115. 



Kukak Bay, July 4; Popof Island, July 8 to 10; Kadiak, Alaska, 

 July 20: Twenty-eight sj^ecimens. This European species has not 

 Jheretofore been reported from this Continent. The specimens agree 

 [perfectly -with the descriptions above indicated. 



Gloma obscura Loevv. 



Glofna obscura LoEW, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 84, 1864. 



Yakutat, June 21 ; Virgin Bay, Alaska, June 26: Two specimens. 

 Originally described from the White Mountains, New Hampshire. 



Gloma scopifera sp. no v. 



Black, a humeral dot, the halteres, second and third segments of 

 abdomen, except middle of dorsum, under side of the fourth segment 

 and the legs, yellow, the greater portion of the coxee, middle of femora, 

 apices of tibicE, last two joints of front and middle tarsi, and whole of 

 hind tarsi, except bases of first two joints, brown ; all hairs and bristles 

 black ; third joint of antenn£e slightly longer than wide, less than half 

 as long as the style; thorax somewhat opnque, thinly gray pruinose ; 

 abdomen slightly polished ; front tibiee at apices bearing a dense cluster 

 of rather long bristly hairs, last two joints of front tarsi greatly dilated 

 and fringed along the sides with short bristly haii's, middle femora 

 beyond the middle of the under side bearing a cluster of about three 

 long bristles, middle tibiae swollen at middle of inner side, the swell- 

 ing densely covered with short, bristly hairs ; wings grayish hyaline, 

 veins and stigma brown. Length 6 mm. Three male specimens, col- 

 lected June 16. 



Habitat. — Sitka, Alaska. 



Type. — Cat. no. 5217, U. S. National Museum. 



Cyrtoma pilipes Loew. 



Cyrtoma pilipcs Loew, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 207, 1862. 



Kukak Bay, July 4; Popof Island, Alaska, July 8 to 13: Twenty- 

 five specimens. Originally described from Illinois. 



Microphorus atratus sp. nov. 



Black, including the hairs; eyes of male contiguous, third joint of 

 antenna; orbicular on its basal half, the remainder narrowed into a 

 styliform process, style one and one-half times as long as the third an- 

 tennal joint, proboscis less than half as long as height of head, body 

 opaque, not pruinose, the hairs rather long, on the mesonotum abun- 



