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type, Eurina lurida Meigen. In the National Museum collection 

 the series of exilis Coquillett stands among the members of the 

 genus Chlorops, having been removed to that genus by Coquillett. 

 EcTECEPHALA Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp. 4, pt. 2, 1851, p. 280. 

 Type: Ectecephala albistylnm Macquart. 



Subfamily BOTANOBIN^. 



Ceratobarys Coquillett, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. G, 1898, p. 45. 

 Type: Hippelates eulophns Loew. 



HiPPEL.\TES Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., \\)1. 7, 1863, p. 36. 

 Type: Hippelates plebejns. Loew. 



Opetiphora Loew, Dipt. Amer. Sept. Indig. Cent. 10, 1872. 

 Siphomyia Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 418. 



Crassiseta von Roser, Corres. Landw. Ver. Wurtemb., 1840, p. 63. 



Type: Oscinis cornuta Fallen. 



The genus Elachiptera, which has as its type brevipennis 

 Meigen, does not occur in America, so far as our present informa- 

 tion goes. 

 G.\URAX Loew, Dipt. Amer. Sept. Indig. Cent. 3, 1863, p. 35. 



Type: Gaurax festiius Loew. 



Titania Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch., 1800, p. 35 (Nom. 

 Nud.) 



Macwstyla Lioy, Atti Istit. Veneto, ser. 3. Vol 9, 1864, p. 1126. 



Titania has never had any species placed in it and must be 

 considered as "nomen nudum," though there is a possibility that 

 it may have been a species of Gaurax Meigen had before him when 

 he wrote the description in his 1800 paper. 



Madiza Fallen, Dipt. Suec, Oscinid., 1820, 8. 



Type: Oscinis oscinin a Fallen. 



Siphonella Macquart. Hist. Nat., Dipt., Vol. 2, 1835, p. 584. 



Eurinella Meunier, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 193. 



Coquillett gives Siphunciilina Rondani, as a synonym also, 

 but this is really the genus afterwards described as Microneiirum 

 "by Becker, which does not at present find a place in the American 

 list. 

 BoTANOBiA Lioy, Atti Istit. Veneto, ser. 3, Vol. 9, 1864, p. 1125. 



Type: Oscinis diibia y[3.cc\u3irt. 



Oscinis authors, not Latreille. 



