316 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. XIII, 



II, 408 (1835); Becker. Zts. Hym. Dipt. II, 253 (1902); Handel, Abh. 



z. b. Ges. Wien, II, 66 (1902). Sc. brevipes Loew, N. Beitr. IV, 54 



(1856). Sc. humilis Loew; Hendel, Wien ent. Ztg. XX, 199 (1901). 



Sc. nasuta Zetterstedt, Dipt. Sc. V. 2114 (1846) ) grisescens Meigen 



Mesopleura with a row of setulae along posterior margin: bas-n portion of 



the microscopically pubescent arista one-fourth the arista-length; 



abdomen with three interrupted brown vittse; nntennas reddish; robust 



rustred species; 6 to 7 mm. Neb., Tex.* (Cresson^ 50). trivittata Cresson 

 19. Wing cells with single rows of variable brown spots; about 4 pteropleural 



bristles. Eur.;* Queb., N. Y., 111., Col. (Hough), Wyom.,* Mont.,* 



Id.,* Wash.* (Sciomvza Schoenherri Fall., Dipt. Suec. Sciom. Suppl. 



2a, 13 (1826); Zetterstedt. Dipt. Sc. V. 2107 (1846); Schiner, Faun. 



Austr. II, 50, (1864); Rondani, Prodr, Dipt. Ital. VII, Sciom. 45 (1868); 



Becker. Act. Soc. sc. Fenn. XXVI, 58 (1900); Hendel, Abh. z. b. Ges. 



Wien, II, 70 (1902). Sc. monilis Meigen, Syst. Bes. VI, 17 (1830). 



Pherbeliia vernalis Desvoidy, Myodaires, 696 (1830). Graphomyzina 



maculata Cresson, 48) schoenherri Fallen 



Wings nearly hyaline, not maculate; oral margin in profile forming an 



obtuse angle with face. Eur.; Wyom.,* Id.* {Sciomyza brutinipes 



Meigen, Syst. Bes. VII, 364 (1838); Schiner, Faun. Austr. II, 50 (1864); 



Hendel. Abh. z. b. Ges. Wien, II, 71 (1902); Becker, Zts. Hvm. Dipt. 



II, 253 (1902). Sc. coxata Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 739 (1838). Sc. pusilla 



Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 739 (1838), Dipt. Sc. V, 2115 (1846) ). 



brunnipes Meigen 



Melina palustris new species. 



Length, 4-5 mm. Dark colored species with black front legs, 

 vittate thorax and fasciate abdomen. Front luteous, parafrontal 

 stripes and median triangle gray, reaching half way down the front; 

 face and cheeks pale yellowish, a brown or black orlDital spot next the 

 antennee, occiput black, gray dusted, the cervical spot indistinct; 

 antennse quite blackish, the arista black, appearing bare under ordinary 

 magnification, two and a half times the length of the third joint; palpi 

 yellowish. Thorax black in ground color, thickly dusted, gray above 

 and faintly vittate, apex of scutellum reddish, a strong brown-dusted 

 subalar stripe and a weaker stripe along the sternopleural suture, 

 metapleural callosity velvety dark brown, pectus whitish pruinose, 

 balance of pleuree silvery gray; mesopleura entirely bare, pteropleura 

 with a few hairs and two or three bristles anteriorly, sternopleura with 

 fine bristles above. Abdomen blackish, the apices of the sclerites yellow, 

 hypopygium blackish with more or less reddish tinge. Front coxte 

 white, contrasting with remainder of legs, front femora stout and setose, 

 knees narrowly brownish; posterior legs brown, hind femora with about 

 four setffi above. Halteres and calypteres pale yellow. Wings hyaline, 

 anterior veins brownish, posterior veins blackish, crossveins scarcely 

 at all infumated, sections of fourth vein proportioned 1 : 0.7 : 1, anal 

 vein slightly more than half the underside of the discal cell. 



Over one hundred specimens. Type from Lake Chatcolet, 

 Idaho,* August, 1915. Paratypes, all collected by the author, 

 from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming,* Three-Forks, Montana;* 

 Priest Lake, Moscow and Lake Waha, Idaho;* Pullman and 

 Dungeness, Washington,* and Nelson, British Columbia.* 



