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FAMILY 

 SUBFAMILY 



TRIBE CESTRINI. 



27. Cephalopsis .uen. nov. 



Type: CEstrus maaitalns Wied., hereby designated. 



Syn.: Cephalomyia Auct. (nee. Latr.). 



Repr. habit: L,arviposition in nostrils of ruminants (camels 

 and buffalo in North Africa). 



This compels the dropping of Cephalomyia^ which has 

 served as a generic name for nearly a century, in spite of its 

 having had during most of that time the same genotype as 

 CEstrus. 



NOTE.- Latreille gave the single species CEstrus ovis L. with his 

 genus Cephalemya in 1818. Curtis designated the same species in 

 1826 as the type of CEstrus Linne (1758), apparently after all the 

 original Linnean species of CEstrus had been abstracted to serve as 

 types of the various genera, the greater part of them having been 

 taken by Latreille. 



With these obsequies we bid adieu to the buried names, 

 thanking Mr. Friedrich Hendel, of Vienna, for his part in the 

 matter. 



PIURA, PERU, December jr, 



A NEW MEGALOPYGID FROM FRENCH GUIANA. 

 BY WILLIAM SCHAUS. 



Mesoscia anguilinea, new species. 



Essentially like M. eriophora Sepp, but the white sub- 

 marginal area is straight and narrow, sending a projection 

 along vein 2 to the cell. 



Type: Male, No. 12530, U. S. Nat. Mus., St. Jean, Maroni 

 River, French Guiana, April, 1904. 



This should have been described in my paper on new species 

 from the Guianas, published in Proceedings of the United 

 States National Museum in 1905, but was omitted therefrom. 



