[439] DIPTERA 53 



from New Hampshire, southward to the District of Columbia, west- 

 ward to Texas and northward to British Columbia. 



Paraphyto borealis sp. nov. 



Black, the anterior portion of the cheeks and lower part of sides of 

 face reddish brown, median depression sometimes of the same color ; 

 front of male at narrowest point narrower than distance between the 

 posterior ocelli, in the female one and one-half times as wide as either 

 eye, the sides and face dark gray pruinose, a dark brownish spot on 

 each side of face near lower end of front, visible only in certain lights, 

 frontal bristles not descending to base of second antennal joint, 

 two pairs of orbital bristles in the female, wanting in the male, an- 

 tennse reaching lowest fourth of face, the third joint nearly one and 

 one-half times as long as the second, arista thickened on the basal 

 sixth, pubescent, the longest pubescence slightly longer than the 

 greatest diameter of the arista; vibrissae situated slightly above the 

 oral margin, two or three bristles above each, proboscis rigid and 

 rather slender, the labella small; mesonotum thinly gray pruinose, 

 marked with three black, polished vittae, four dorsocentral, postsutural 

 macrochaetae and three sternopleural ; abdomen somewhat polished, 

 anterior portion of the second, third, and fourth segments gray pruin- 

 ose, the first three segments bearing marginal, the second and third also 

 with discal macrochaetae, hypopygium uniformly covered with hairs ; 

 wings hyaline, the base pale brownish, anterior veins indistinctly 

 bordered with brown, calypteres white. Length 9 mm. A specimen 

 of each sex, collected July 28. 



Habitat. Fox Point, Alaska. 



Type. Cat. no. 5242, U. S. National Museum. 



Closely related to gillettei, but in that species the eyes of the male 

 are at least twice as wide apart as the distance between the two posterior 

 ocelli, the hairs of the hypopygium are arranged in transverse bands 

 widely separated by bare intervals, there are no brown spots on upper 

 part of the face, and the length is from 12 to 14 mm. 



Echinomyia algens (Wiedemann). 



Tachina algens WIEDEMANN, Ausser. Zweif. Insekten, n, p. 285, 1830. 

 Echinomyia algens COQUILLETT, Revision Tachinidae, p. 144, 1897. 



Fox Point, Alaska : A single specimen, collected July 28. This 

 species was originally described from North America, without any 

 mention of a more precise locality. It has been reported as occur- 

 ring from Canada to New York and westward to British Columbia 

 and California. 



