28 COQUILLETT [4^4] 



Rhamphomyia flavirostris Walker. 



Rhamphomyia flavirostris Walker, List Dipt. Ins. Brit. Mus., iii, p. 501, 

 1849. 



Muir Inlet, June 12; Popof Island, Alaska, July 10 and 12: 



Three specimens. Originally described from Albany River, British 



America. 



Rhamphomyia corvina Loew. 



Rhamphoinyia corvina Loew, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 28, 1861. 



Lowe Inlet, British Columbia, June 3; Kukak Bay, July 4; Ju- 

 neau, Alaska, July 26 : Three specimens. Originally described from 

 New York. The U. S. National Museum contains specimens col- 

 lected in Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and North Carolina. 



Rhamphomyia minytus Walker. 



Rhamphomyia minytus Walker, List Dipt. Ins. Brit. Mus., iii, p. 502, 

 1849. 



Berg Bay, June 10; Muir Inlet, June 11; Virgin Bay, Alaska, 



June 26 : Six specimens. Originally described from Albany River, 



British America. 



Rhamphomyia irregularis Loew. 



Rhamphomyia irregularis Loew, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 81, 1864. 



Kukak Bay, Alaska : A female specimen, taken July 4. Originally 

 described from New Hampshire. The U. S. National Museum also 

 contains specimens of both sexes collected in Colorado. 



Rhamphomyia limbata Loew. 



Rhamphomyia limbata Loew, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 32, 1861. 



Sitka, June 16; Yakutat, June 21 ; Virgin Bay, June 26; Saldovia, 

 Alaska, July 21 : Eight female specimens. Originally reported from 

 the District of Columbia. Specimens are contained in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum collection from Illinois and Colorado. 



Rhamphomyia villipes sp. nov. 



Black, the halteres, hypopygium, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow, 

 apices of first four tarsal joints, and whole of the fifth, brown, coxae 

 brown and yellow ; eyes of male contiguous, third joint of antennae 

 about four times as long as wide, two and one-half times as long as the 

 style, proboscis twice as long as height of head ; hairs of entire insect 

 black ; thorax opaque, gray pruinose, two indistinct brown subdorsal 

 vittae, hairs abundant and rather long, scutellum bearing four bristles; 

 abdomen opaque, densely whitish pruinose, thickly clothed with rather 



