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(a very probable one) , that Macquart overlooked the spurs on the front 

 tibiae. 



108. Diogmites umbrinus. I am not quite sure whether the speci- 

 men of Dasi/p. basalts Walker, iu the Brit. Mus. belongs here or to 

 Diogmites discolor. 



109. Diogmites annulatus Bigot. This species does not belong to 

 Senobasis Macq. from which it differs in the structure of the antennae 

 and of the hypopygium. It may be placed provisionally in the genus 

 Dioginites, however, as a separate section (Loew in litt.). 



110. D. brunneus. Macquart's synonymy is not to be relied on, as 

 he evidently mixed up several species of Diogmites. 



111. D. Duillius. The description seems to betray a Diogmites, 

 nevertheless certain statements render this interpretation doubtful; hence 

 the isolated position given to this species. (Loew in litt.) 



112. L'aphria lata. I have seen the type in Lille and have taken 

 a note, which enabled me to determine a specimen from Louisiana in 

 the type-collection (now in the M. C. Z.). 



113. Laphria Alcanor Walker, is the variety of L. tlwracica which 

 has the intermediate abdominal segments beset with yellow pile. 



114. Laphria affinis Macq., the type of which I saw in Mr. Bigot's 

 collection, looks very much like L. thoracica in the variety with alto- 

 gether black abdominal pile. The description speaks of white hairs 

 about the head, which do not exist in L. tkbracica, but do not shake 

 my belief in the synonymy. 



115. In the Banksiau collection, preserved in the Brit. Mus. and 

 containing the types of Fabricius , there is an Asilus grossus , with the 

 reference: Spec. Ins. Nr. 1. The specimen bears a label America, and 

 another label with the word type. This specimen is Laphria tergissa 

 Say. In the Species Insectorum the locality is given simply as ,,America"\ 

 in the Syst. Anil, we find ,,in America mcridionali", evidently a later 

 and probably erroneous addition. In both works however, the ,,Museum 

 Dom. Banks" is quoted, as containing the type of the description. 



116. Laphria analis Macq. Synonymy hardly doubtful, although 

 Macquart says: ,,les cinq premiers segments a poils jaunes". 



117. Laphria flavibarbis Harris. The original type still exists in 

 Dr. Harris's collection, in Boston. I do not think that it differs from 

 tergissa. At any rate there is an earlier L. jlaribarbis, by Macquart. 



118. Schiner (1. c. p. 709) places Laphria rubriventris Macq., 

 L. formidolosa Walk, and xanthoenema Wied. in the genus Andrenosoma. 

 He is wrong about rubriventris which is a Lampria. 



119. The genera of the Asilina are tabulated by Loew in the 

 Linnaea Entom. Ill, p. 402 and IV, p. 148; also later in the Diptern- 

 Fauna Siidafrika's, p. 143. Compare also Schiner, Fauna Austriaca, 

 Diptera, I, p. 142. 



120. Mallophora scopifer Wied. It seems probable that Macquart's 

 31. scopifer is not the same as Wiedemann's. Schiner, Verh. Zool. Bot. 

 Ges. 1866, p. 77, has a M. scopifer Bell, non Wied. Cuba; which evi- 

 dently means Macq. non Wied., as Bellardi has no M. scopifer at all 



