749 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 337 
p- 81, pl. ii, fig. 17, from Cuba); Zetanocera pictipes Loew (op. cit, 
iii, from Washington, D. C., family Sciomyide); and Dilophus, sp. 
(family Bibionide). 
Mr. Uhler recorded, 1888, an undetermined species of Odontomyia 
(family Stratiomyide, “ Soldier-flies’”’). 
Dr. Fr. Dah] (Plankton Exped., vol. i, part 1, p. 109, 1892) 
recorded the following Diptera: 
Erristalis eneus? Fab. Williston, Bull. Nat. Mus., No. 31, p. 161, 
(descr.) = &. sincerus Harris. N. America, Europe, Canary Is., 
Malta, etc. The body is shining dark metallic green ; eyes spotted 
with round dots. Psilopus chrysoprasinus Wied. <A Brazilian fly 
of the family Dolichopide. Musca basilaris Macq. WKnown also 
from Cape Verde Is., Ascension I., Jamaica, and Brazil. ucellia, 
sp. Lucilialatifrons Schinz. European. Sarcophagula, sp. Lim- 
osina, sp. On dead sea-weed on the shore. 
Mr. D. W. Coquillett has determined in our collection, Scatopse 
atrata Say; Orthocladius, sp.; Phora, sp., and Psilopus chryso- 
prasus Walk., ili, p. 646 ;* not enumerated above. 
d.—Aphaniptera. (Fleas, etc.) 
The Human Flea (Pulex irritans), fig. 101; and the Cat and Dog 
Flea (Serraticeps canis or Pulex canis), fig. 102, which also attacks 
Figure 101.—Human Flea (Pulex irritans), much enlarged ; 0, larva of the same, 
after Claus. Figure 102.—Dog Flea (Serraticeps canis), much enlarged. 
101, 102, from Webster’s International Dictionary. 
man, are both very common, as in most warm countries, and were 
doubtless introduced in early times. 
The Jigger or Chigoe (Sarcopsylla penetrans= Pulex penetrans), 
fig. 104, which is common in the West Indies and tropical America, 
* This brilliant fly has the head bright sapphire-blue, with brown eyes ; thorax 
and abdomen bright emerald-green, the latter with narrow black bands at the 
sutures ; legs black ; wings slightly dusky ; length, o”™. West Indies, Walker. 
