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White Mountains and Franconia, N. H.; Beverly, Mass.; northern IIli- 
nois; Colorado; British Columbia; Easton, Wash., and Placer and Los 
Angeles counties, Cal. (In Cook’s Notes on Injurious Insects, p. 5; 
HEIR CO NOMM. \eA matt) sae ae e ek eS See lols sey. a wed sequax Will, 
Unrecognized species.-P.? (Scopolia) lateralis Macquart; America 
(probably South America). 
Genus CHAATOPLAGIA Coq. 
Chetoplagia Coquillett, Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc., Vol. III, p. 98; September, 1895. 
Our single species is black, the second antennal joint and the palpi 
yellow; three postsutural and three sternopleural macrochetie; wings 
blackish along the veins of the costal half; length,7 mm. District of 
Columbia and southern Dlinois. (Loe. cit.)..........--. atripennis Coq. 
Genus METOPIA Meig. 
Metopia Meigen, in Illiger’s Magazin fiir Insektenkunde, Vol. II, p. 280; 1803. 
Ophelia Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 120; 1830. 
This synonymy is given by Macquart! and repeated by Schiner? and 
by Brauer and Bergenstamm.’ Our single species is black, including 
the palpi, sides of abdomen sometimes partly yellow; three postsutural 
and two sternopleural macrochete; length 6 to 8mm. White Moun- 
tains, New Hampshire; Beverly, Mass.; District of Columbia; northern 
Illinois; Kenedy, Tex.; Colorado; Los Angeles County, Cal.; Wash- 
ington; France; Germany, and Austria. A male from Austria, from 
the old Schiner collection, received from Brauer and Bergenstamm and 
by them labeled Metopia leucocephala (Rossi) Schiner; three males from 
Germany, received from Zeller, and by him labeled Metopia leucocephala; 
also one specimen of each sex from France, received from H. du Buysson, 
and labeled as above. (Fauna Etrusca, Vol. II, p. 1501; 1791: Musca. 
Musca labiata Fabricius, Entomologia Systematica, Vol. IV, p. 329; 
1794. Avraba squamipallens Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 130; 
1830. Araba grisea Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 151. Degeeria lateralis Mac- 
quart, Dipt. Exot., Sup. IT], p.208 [48]; 1847. Metopia luggeri Townsend, 
Can. Entom., Vol. XXIV, p. 69; March, 1892.)..... leucocephala Rossi. 
Genus ARABA Desv. 
Araba Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 127; 1830. 
Eumetopia Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, IV, p. 114; 1889. 
This synonymy has already been acknowledged by the last-men- 
tioned authors.? Our single species is wholly black; front in male 
1 Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 486; 1850. 
?Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 498; 1862. 
3Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 234; 1893. 
4This synonymy is given by Meigen and repeated by most subsequent authors. 
The synonymy of squamipallens is according to Schiner; the remainder is by the 
writer. 
5 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, V, p. 359; 1891. 
