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pale brown to yellow; second antennal joint brown. Wings hyaline; 

 ant. c. V. dark but not clouded. Head, thorax and abdomen more or 

 less opaque, brownish gray, becoming lighter below. Legs more shin- 

 ing. All pile and bristles black. Pile of thorax, abdomen, and legs, 

 very long and wooly. Mesonotum indistinctly vittate. Arista bare. 

 Six frontal bristles ; 5 or more f ronto-orbitals in a series diminishing 

 lo near line of base of antennae. Palpi as long as proboscis, somewhat 

 clavate. Cheeks .6 height of eyes, with no distinct bristle. Acrostichals 

 not differentiated from the pile; d. c. 2:^ with the anterior one scarcely 

 discernible; humeral bristle indistinct. Scutellum convex, triangular, 

 acute, with 4 bristles. Femora without distinct bristles ; fore tibiae with 

 a hair-like apical extensor ; middle tibiae with 2-3 ant. ext., 3 post, ext., 

 2 post. a. ; hind tibiae with 2 ant. ext., 1-2 post, ext., and a long hair- 

 like preapical extensor. Veins 3 and 4 parallel. Length — 7-10 mm. 



Type. — S ; West Coast of Greenland, 1891 (Mengel and 

 Hughes, on the Peary Expedition), [A. N. S. No. 6182]. 

 Paratypes. — 3 S ; topotypical. 



This form differs from the other aUied arctic species in be- 

 ing larger, darker in color of the pollinose dusting and pile ; 

 the latter is noticeably long and wooly, much longer than in 

 sfercomria. 



Scathophaga nigrolimbata new species. 



$. \''ellow with incisures of abdomen black. Head opaque; thorax 

 and abdomen more or less shining. .-Ml bristles and setulae, pile of ab- 

 dominal dorsum, and apical half of hind femora, black; that of occiput, 

 pleura, venter, fore and middle femora, pale. Wings yellowish with pale 

 veins and no clouds over c. vs. 



Frons with 6 frontals and 3 orhitals. Arista plumose. Cheeks .25 

 height of eyes. Acrostichals seriated posteriorly; d. c. 2:^: other 

 bristles normal. Scutellum semi-circular, with 4 bristles. Femoral 

 bristles indistinct. Fore tibiae with 2 ext., i post., all hair-like ; middle 

 tibiae with i ant. ext., I post, ext., all weak; hind tibiae with 3-4 ant. 

 ext., I apical ext.. 2 post. ext. Wings with veins 3, 4 parallel. 

 Length — 6 mm. 



9. Similar with bristles stronger. Abdomen darker, due probably 

 to decomposition. 



Type. — $ ; Beaverkill, Sullivan County, New York, August 

 12, 1909 (E. T. Cresson, Jr.). [A. N. S. No. 6183]. Allo- 

 type. — $ ; topotypical. 



This may be pallida Walker, but there is no curving of the 

 post. c. V. as described by Walker. 



