76 COQUILLETT [462] 



Parydra paullula Loew. 



Parydra paullula LOEW, Monog. Dipt. N. Am., I, p. 167, 1862. 



Popof Island, Alaska : A single specimen, collected July 10. No 

 locality was mentioned in the original description, but the type speci- 

 men was evidently collected in some part of the United States. 



Scatella setosa sp. nov. 



Black, the halteres yellow ; head and body opaque, densely bluish 

 gray pruinose, cheeks at narrowest part about one-sixth as wide as the 

 eye-height, a stout bristle near junction of each with the occiput and 

 two on each side of the face ; mesonotum bearing three pairs of dor- 

 socentral bristles, the anterior pair in front of the suture, no bristles 

 nor hairs between the two rows of dorsocentrals behind the suture, in 

 front of the suture with a strong pair of acrostichal bristles, and in 

 front of these are three or four pairs of shorter bristles ; scutellum 

 bearing a short lateral and a very long subapical pair of bristles ; wings 

 grayish brown, marked with five rather small whitish spots, one in the 

 submarginal cell above the hind crossvein, one near the base and 

 another beyond middle of the first posterior cell, finally one on either 

 side of the hind crossvein ; length 2.5 mm. A single specimen, col- 

 lected July 21. 



Habitat. Saldovia, Alaska. 



Type, Cat. no. 5255, U. S. National Museum. 



Scatella stagnalis (Fallen) . 



Ephydra stagnalis FALLEN, Dipt. Sueciae, Hydromyzidae, p. 5, 1823. 

 Scatella stagnalis SCHINER, Fauna Austriaca, Dipt., II, p. 266, 1864. 



Yakutat, Alaska : A single specimen, collected June 21. A Euro- 

 pean species, reported as occurring in Greenland about fifty-five years 

 ago. It has also been reported from New Jersey, and the specimens 

 in the U. S. National Museum indicate that it occurs as far southward 

 as Georgia and westward to Arizona. 



Family DROSOPHHUXffl:. 

 Scaptomyza flaveola (Meigen) . 



Drosophila flaveola MEIGEN, Sys. Besch. Eur. Zweif. Ins., vi, p. 66, 1830. 

 SCHINER, Fauna Austriaca, Dipt., II, p. 279, 1864. 



Sitka, Alaska : A single specimen, collected June 16. This is a 

 European species, first reported from this country by the writer in 1895. 

 It was recorded from the District of Columbia, and the National Mu- 

 seum also contains specimens from Connecticut and New Hampshire. 

 The characters heretofore used for separating Drosophila from Scap- 



