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White Mountains and Franconia,N. H.; Beverly, Mass.; northern Illi- 
nois; Colorado; British Columbia; Easton, Wash., and Placer and Los 
Angeles counties, Cal. (In Cook's ^Notes on Injurious Insects, p. 5; 
1884 : Scopolia.) - sequax Will. 
Unrecognized species. — P.? (Scopolia) lateralis Macquart; America 
(probably South America). 
Genus CHiETOPLAGIA Coq. 
Cluvtoplagia Coquillett, Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 98; September, 1895. 
Our single species is black, the second antennal joint and the palpi 
yellow; three postsutural and three sternopleural macrocha^tie ; wings 
blackish along the veins of the costal half; length, 7 mm. District of 
Columbia and southern Illinois. (Loc. cit.) atripennis Coq. 
Genus METOPIA Meig. 
Metopia Meigen, in Illiger's Magazin fiir Insektenkunde, Vol. II, p. 280; 1803. 
Ophelia Desvoidy, Essai sur lea Myodaires, p. 120; 1830. 
This synonymy is given by Macquart 1 and repeated by Schiner 2 and 
by Brauer and Bergenstamm. 3 Our single species is black, including 
the palpi, sides of abdomen sometimes partly yellow; three postsutural 
and two sternopleural macrocha^e ; length G to 8 mm. White Moun- 
tains, New Hampshire; Beverly, Mass. ; District of Columbia; northern 
Illinois; Kenedy, Tex.; Colorado; Los Angeles County, Cal.; Wash- 
ington; France; Germany, and Austria. A male from Austria, from 
the old Schiner collection, received from Brauer and Bergenstamm and 
by them labeled Metopia leucocephala (Bossi) Schiner; three males from 
Germany, receivedfrom Zeller, and by him labeled Metopia leucocephala; 
also one specimen of each sex from France, received from H. du Buysson, 
and labeled as above. (Fauna Etrusca, Vol. II, p. 1501; 1791: Musca. 
Musca labiata Fabricius, 4 Entomologia Systematica, Vol. IV, p. 329; 
1794. Araba squamipaUens Desvoidy. Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 130; 
1830. Araba grisea Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 131. Degeeria lateralis Mac- 
quart, Dipt. Exot., Sup. Ill, p. 208 [18] ; 1817. Metopia lugger i Townsend, 
Can. Entom., Vol. XXIV, p. 69; March, 1892.) leucocephala Bossi. 
Genus ARABA Desv. 
Araba Desvoidy, Essai stir les Myodaires, p. 127; 1830. 
Eumetopia Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, IV, p. Ill; 1889. 
This synonymy has already been acknowledged by the last-men- 
tioned authors. 5 Our single species is wholly black; front in male 
1 Anrtales Soc. Ent. France, p. 436; 1850. 
2 Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 198; 1862. 
^Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 234; 1893. 
4 This synonymy is given by Meigen and repeated by most subsequent authors. 
Tho synonymy of squamipallens is according to Schiner; the remainder is by the 
writer. 
■'•Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, V, p. 359 ; 1891. 
