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the middle of the last segment, black; first segment destitute of dorsal 

 macrocbaetae, the three following bearing discal and marginal ones. 

 Legs, including the coxae, yellow. Wings hyaline^ tinged with ])ale 

 yellow at the base and toward the costa, veins bare, costal spine as 

 long as the crossvein at base (►f discal cell; front calyi)teres white, tlie 

 hind ones yellow. Length, 12 mm. A single specimen (No. 741). 

 Type.—^o. 4008, U.S.K.M. 



Family SCATOl'HAGIDAE. 

 SCATOPHAGA STERCORARIA Linnaeus. 

 Muaca ati'rcoraria Linnakus, Fjiiiiiii Suer., 17ti!5, p. 18H1. 



Four Specimens (No. 084) of this almost cosmopolitan species. It 

 has i)reviously been recorded from .Japan by Dr. Loew.' 



SCATOPHAGA MELLIPES, new species. 



Male: Occiput, ocellar triangle, and sides of front black, gray i)ru- 

 iuose, frontal vitta leddish brown, next the antennae reddish yellow; 

 face, cheeks, and lower part of o('cii)ut yellow and yellow ])ruinose; 

 antennae on the first two Joints and extreme base of the third yellow, 

 remainder of the third joint black; arista pubescent, brown, the l)ase 

 yellow; proboscis brown, palpi yellow, its short hairs and the bristles 

 of the under side yellow, those at the apex black. Thorax black, gray 

 pruinose, and marked with lour brown vittae, five i)airs of dorso- 

 central macrochaetae, hairs of mesonotum short, black, those of the 

 pleura long, abundant, yellow; one sterno])lcural macrochaeta; scutel- 

 lum black, gray pruinose, bearing iowv long macrochaetae. Abdomen 

 black, olive-gray ])ruinose, quite thickly covered with rather long yel- 

 low hairs intermixed with a few black ones. Coxae black, gray pru- 

 inose, remainder of legs yellow, iemora destitute of macrochaetae, 

 except a paii- on the posterior side of the middle ones near the tip, 

 rather thickly covered with quite long yellow hairs, those on upper 

 side of middle ones and toward the tips of the hind ones chiefiy black, 

 hairs of tibiae brown or l)la(;k; front tibiae destitute of stout macro- 

 chaetae, the ujiddle ones each bearing two on the anterior and three on 

 the posterior side, the hind ones with three on the anterior and three 

 or tour on the posterior side, beside those at the a])ices. Wings 

 grayish hyaline, at the base and towaid the costa strongly tinged with 

 yellow, crossveins not clouded with brown. Halteres yellow. 



Female: Ditters from the male as follows: Hairs of dorsum of abdo- 

 men very short and chiefly black, those of the legs also short, all 

 femora and tibiae bearing several stout black macrochaetae. Length, 

 10 to 12 mm. Five males and one female (No. 084). 



Type.—^o. 4009, IJ.S.N.M. 



' Wiener Kut. Mou., 1858, p. 112. 



