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from Greenland and Alaska to Georgia and Texas. It also occurs in 

 Europe, and is one of the very few species described in this country 

 before it was in Europe. 



Scatophaga intermedia Walker. 



Scatophaga intermedia WALKER, List Dipt. Inst. Brit. Museum, iv, p. 980, 

 1849. 



Muir Inlet, Alaska : A single specimen, collected June 1 1 . The 

 type locality is Nova Scotia. This species has also been recorded 

 from New Hampshire and from Bering Islands ; specimens are in the 

 U. S. National Museum from Maine and Massachusetts. 



Scatophaga suilla (Fabricius). 



Musca suilla FABRICIUS, Entomol. Syst., IV, p. 343, 1794. 



Scatophaga spurca MEIGEN, System. Besch. Eur. Zweif. Ins., v, p. 250, 1826. 



Sitka, June 16 ; Virgin Bay, June 26 ; Popof Island, July 10 to 13 ; 

 Kadiak, Alaska, July 20 : Twelve specimens. A European species 

 not before recorded from this Continent. The U. S. National Museum 

 contains specimens from New Hampshire, Canada, Washington, and 

 Colorado. 



Scatophaga islandica Becker. 



Scatophaga islandica BECKER, Berliner Ent. Zeitsch., p. 175, 1894. 



Berg Bay, June 10; Yakutat, June 21 ; Popof Island, July 8 to II ; 

 Kadiak, Alaska, July 20 : Fifteen specimens. Originally described 

 from Iceland and Labrador ; it has also been reported from Bering Is- 

 lands. 

 Scatophaga frigida sp. nov. 



Male and female : Black, the frontal vittae yellowish red, cheeks and 

 sides of face pale yellow, arista beyond the thickened basal part, palpi, 

 and halteres yellow, tibiae reddish yellow ; third joint of antenna? 

 twice as long as the second, arista short plumose on the antepenulti- 

 mate fourth, the longest hairs one and one-half times as long as greatest 

 diameter of arista ; under side of palpi rather thickly beset with long 

 yellowish white bristly hairs, the upper side with very short, the apices 

 with long black bristles ; body opaque, bluish gray pruinose, mesono- 

 tum marked with four blackish brown vittse, its bristles and sparse, 

 rather short hairs black ; hairs of pleura long and abundant, those of 

 the mesopleura chiefly black, of the sternopleura yellow, pteropleura 

 bare ; abdomen densely covered with long hairs, those on the dorsum 

 chiefly black, on the venter yellow ; femora, except upper side of the 

 middle ones, rather densely covered with long black and yellow hairs, 



