NO.2099. TIJE DIPTEROUS GENUS BYMPHOROMYIA—ALDRICH. 131 . 



3, Longmires Springs, Mount Rainier, Washington, Aug. 2, 1905 

 (J. M. A.). 



2, Washington (Piper and Kincaid). 



3, Washington (O. B. Johnson), and 2, Stickeen River, Canada 

 (Wickham), in the United States National Museum (CoquiUett's type 

 material of johnsoni, female). 



A single female, in bad condition, from Sheep Creek, Alaska, differs 

 only in having entirely yellow pile all over, quite long on the front. 

 It may be a different species. It is from Professor Melander's 

 collection. 



The female of the species described above is undoubtedly CoquiUett's 

 johnsoni; whether I have been any more successful than Mr. Coquil- 

 lett m associating the correct male with it may possibly be questioned. 

 From the fact that Professor Kincaid collected both sexes on the same 

 day at Coupeville, Washington, I conclude that they belong together. 



I found Tcincaidi along with atripes Bigot in the Mount Rainier 

 National Park in 1905, but did not at the time notice that there 

 were two species; later I found that my notes about the biting habit 

 were attached to atripes, but I am under the impression that Icincaidi 

 is an almost equally bad biter. 



I have followed the usual procedure in retaining Mr. CoquiUett's 

 name for the male of his composite species. 



SYMPHOROMYIA LIMATA Coquillett. 



Symphoromyia limata Coquillett, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 1894, p. 54, 

 female. Southern California. 



Female. — A rather large blackish species, the antennae, palpi, and 

 tibiae yeUow; abdomen shining black on first four segments, the 

 remainder red. 



Front narrower than the eye, rusty cinereous, the short black pUe 

 arising from minute black dots; antennae bright orange, rather 

 smaU, inserted far apart; first joint with short black pile, third 

 kidney-shaped, its vertical diameter 1^ times that of the first segment; 

 face with very scattered and smaU pile, hard to see, yet important as 

 indicating that the male, as yet unknown, has a pilose face; lower 

 margin of face reddish; palpi orange red, bare on a large part of the 

 upper surface, with small blackish haii-s otherwise; proboscis with 

 the horny part longer than usual, yet much shorter than height of 

 head; labeUa soft, fleshy; beard fight yellow. 



Mesonotum black, with tMn pollen, a broad median darker stripe 

 bordered by a cinereous line each side; pile short, blackish, arising 

 from minute dots; pleura subshining black, with a tuft of pale pUe 

 on propleura and another on hypopleura; halteres with infuscated 

 knob. 



