townsend: generic name musca 433 



SUBSECTION b4 



Elytra with punctures of dorsal area fine, not impressed. 



Declivity with interspaces 1 smooth; black shining. Ventura 

 County, California, in cones of Pinus monoyhijlla. Length, 

 2.95-3.20 mm. Length, female type, 2.95 mm.; Ventura County, 

 California, in Pinus monophylla, June 5, 1904, author, collector; 

 Hopk. U. S., No. 2784. Type, Cat. No. 7474, U. S. N. M. 



C. monophyllae, sp. nov. 

 Elytra with punctures of dorsal area coarse, impressed. 



Dull black. Boulder and Manitou, Colorado, in cones of Pinus 

 flexilis. Length 2.95-3.30 mm. Length, female type, 3.L5 mm.; 

 Mount Manitou, Colorado, in Pitnis flexilis, January 25, 1914, 

 W. D. Edmonston, collector; Hopk. U. S., No. 12400a. Type, 

 Cat. No. 7475, U. S. N. M C. flexilis, sp. nov. 



SECTION a4 



Black, shining; declivity with interspace 1 smooth. Northern Cali- 

 forftia and southern Oregon, n cones of Pinus Jamhertiana. Length 

 2.85-3.95 mm. Length, female type, 3.50 mm.; Hilt, California, in 

 Pinus Jamhertiana, September 20, 1913, P. D. Sergent, collector; 

 Hopk. U. S., No. 10833a2. Type, Cat. No. 7478, U. 8. N. M. 



C. lambertianae, sp. nov. 



ENTOMOLOGY. — Correction of the misuse of the generic name 

 Musca, with description of two new ge7iera. Charles H. T. 

 Townsend, Bureau of Entomology. 



For almost a century the generic name Musca has, by misuse, 

 been perverted from its rightful application. It is, nomen- 

 clatorially, one of the most important in the order of flies, or 

 Diptera, the superfamily name Muscoidea being derived from it; 

 hence, the correction of its misuse is especially important. The 

 present paper deals with the proper application of the name and 

 includes also descriptions of two new muscoid genera. 



In 1810 Latreille^ designated Musca vomitoria F. ( = Musca vomi- 

 toria Jj.y as type of the genus Musca. The designation is valid and 

 can not consistently be set aside. Calliphora RD.^ (1830) falls to 



1 Consid. 444. 



'^ Bezzi & Stein (Kat. Pal. Dipt., 1907) indicate Musca vomitoria F. as a synonym 

 of Musca mortuorum L. This is manifestly incorrect. Both the description and 

 the bibliographic references given by Fabricius under vomitoria fix his species 

 as vomitoria L. It must be pointed out that Latreille, in designating genotypes, 

 customarily accredited Linnean species to Fabricius when such had been treated 

 by the latter author. 



3 Myod. 433. 



