344 THE ASIATIC FUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 



Family DOLIOHOPODID^. 



(12) Hydrophorus signiferus, new species. 



Female.— Upiper part of the occiput, front and face opaque, densely brownisb- 

 yellow pruinose, a small gray spot below each of the facial tubercles; palpi brownish- 

 yellow pruiuose in the center, the edges gray; proboscis and antennae black, third, joint 

 of the latter subquadrate, slightly broader than long, a notch at insertion of the arista 

 and another opposite it on the lower side of the joint; penultimate joint of arista one- 

 half as long as the last joint; bristles of occiput black, intermixed with a few pale 

 yellow hairs. Thorax blackish, the margins and upper part of the pleura opaque, 

 densely brownish-yellow pruinose (the center of the dorsum may have been abraded 

 in the single specimen before me), remainder of pleura white pruinose; scutellum 

 opaque, densely brownish-yellow pruinose, bearing four bristles. Abdomen shining 

 bronze green, the lateral margins and venter white pruinose. Coxiaeand trochanters 

 densely whitish pruinose, femora and tibite shining, bronze green, the tarsi black; 

 front femora bearing a few short spines on the basal third of the under side. Wings 

 grayish-hyaline, veins bordered with pale brown, a dark brown spot on the hind cross- 

 vein and another near the middle of the last section of the fourth vein; third vein 

 toward its apex strongly curving toward the fourth; hairs of lower calypteres pale 

 yellow. Halteres yellowish, the knobs brown. Length, 6 mm. 



Type.—Eo. 4052, F.S.N.M. 



Bering Island, July-August, 1897. A single specimen collected by Mr. Barrett- 

 Hamilton. 



Family PHOEID.^. 



ri3) PAora sp. 



Bering Island, July- August, 1897. A single specimen collected by Dr. L. Stejne- 

 ger, too much damaged for identification. 



Family SAECOPHAGID^. 



(14) Cynomyia mortuoru'mljinnsdUB. Fauna Suecica, 1761, p. 1830. 



Bering Island, July-August, 1897. A male specimen collected by Dr. L. Stejne- 

 ger. It agrees very well with a specimen from England in the National Museum. 



Family MUSCID^. 



(15) Calliphora erythroeephala Meigen. Syst. Besch. Eur. Zweif. Insekten, V, 1826, p. 62. 



Copper Island. A female specimen collected in August, 1897, by Mr. Barrett- 

 Hamilton. Agrees in all respects with specimens from the United States and England. 



Family ANTHOMYIIDiE. 



(16) Limnopliora comjmneta Wiod. ZooL Magazine, 1, 1817, p. 80. 



Bering Island, July-August, 1897. Two males collected by Mr. Barrett- Hamilton. 



(17) PhorUa sp. 



Copper Island. One male and three females collected in August, 1897 by Mr. 

 Barrett-Hamilton. 



(18) FuceUia fueorum Fallen. Dipt. Sueciii', ScatomyzidiB, 1819, p. 5. 



Three males and one female, collected in July-August, 1897, by Mr. Barrett- 

 Hamilton. 



