Diptera 5 1 c 



Male and Female. — Black, with a distinct greenish lustre. Frons opaque 

 Mack-brown; antennae black; lace greenish above, the surface with dense brown- 

 ish pollen which rarely obscures the entire surface in either sex, face, below, 

 entirely silvery pilose in the male, but in the female the greater portion is brownish 

 pilose with normally a whitish area on each side; postocular region with numerous 

 black bristles and yellow hairs. Thorax almost black, with a cupreous stripe 

 along line of dorso-centrals and a broad sublateral vitta each side. Abdomen 

 with a more pronounced greenish tinge than thorax and usually slightly cupreous 

 on dorsum at base. Legs black, distinctly green-tinged, especially on dorsal 

 surfaces of tibiae. Wings clear, with a distinct brown spot on cross-vein and 

 another before middle of hist section of fourth vein. Squamae with pale fringe-. 



Male. — Third antennal joint short, obtuse at apex; face in both sexes 

 broad, slightly widened below, the upper half slightly vertically rugose. Pro- 

 pleura with a group of bristly black hairs above coxa, among which the normal 

 bristle is barely distinguishable. Scutellum with four strong bristles. Fore 

 femora in male excavated at apex below, and with four to five short stout brist les 

 basad of the excavation, on the anterior side; base of femur slightly swollen, 

 and near its antero-ventral edge with a series of five to seven widely-placed 

 setulae; ventral surface of fore tibia with a series of closely placed spines; fore 

 tarsi normal; mid and hind femora not swollen, both pairs with a few bristles 

 on apical half of antero- and postero-ventral surfaces; mid and hind tibiae 

 with a few widely placed bristles. 



Female. — Similar to male except that the fore femora are not excavated 

 near apex and lack the group of bristles on the antero-ventral side, and the 

 fore tibia has less regular and slightly longer ventral bristles. 



Locality: Teller, Alaska, two specimens, July 29, 1913, and ten specimens, 

 August 6, 1913 (F. Johansen). 



Originally described from Commander islands, Bering sea. 



Hydrophorus pilitarsis, n. sp. 



Male and Female. — Similar in colour to the preceding species, differing 

 only in having the postocular cilia on lower half almost entirely yellow, and the 

 fore coxae with long yellow hairs and only a pair of black bristles at middle and 

 a few black setulae at apex instead of being almost entirely black setulose. 



Male. — Face widest below middle, slightly narrowed at lowest extremity; 

 antennae as in signiferus. Propleura with one black bristle and a number of 

 long yellow hairs. Fore femora more noticeably swollen t han 1 hose of signift rus, 

 not excavated at apex near base, with seven to eight stout, closely placed, 

 rather short bristles on the ventral surface; a number of long black hairs on 

 apical half of posterior surface; fore tibia thickened on apical half, the antero- 

 ventral surface with dense microscopic pile and very minute spinules; fore tarsi 

 with long black hairs on antero-ventral margin of basal and dorsal surface of 

 next three joints; mid femora with four to five long, black bristles a! base on 

 antero-ventral surface and moderately long, black hairs on apical two-thirds of 

 postero-ventral surface, the femora slightly bent; hind femora slender, straight, 

 with short setulose hairs; mid and hind tibia* with a few shorl bristles. Lasl 

 sections of veins three and four conspicuously convergent apically, the dark 

 spot on last section of four nearer middle of thai section than it is in signiferus. 



Female. — Similar to male except thai the fore femora are less thickened, 

 lack the basal series of strong bristles, and have the apical series of hairs on 

 postero-ventral surface less closely placed. The mid femora have two to three 

 strong bristles near base. The fore tarsi have only the normal hairs. 



Length, 3 • 5-4 • 5 mm . 



Type locality: Teller, Alaska, five specimens, July 29, 1913; one specimen, 

 August 6, 1913 (F. Johansen). 



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