38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.98 



Parexorista Beaueb and Bebgenstamm, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, niath.- 



nat. Kl., vol. 56, p. 161, 1889.— Babanoff, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc, vol. 82, 



pp. 387-408, 1934. 

 Sisyropa Bratjeb and Bebgenstamm (partim), Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



math.-nat. KL, vol. 58, p. 344, 1S91. 

 Bxorista of Coquhxett (nee Meigen), partim, U. S. Dopt. Agr., Div. Ent., 



Tech. Bull. 7, p. 91, 1897. 

 Zenillia of Aldbich and Webber (nee Robineau-Desvoidy), partim, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 03, art. 17, p. 7, 1924. 

 Senexorista Townsend, Supplementa entomologica, No. 16, p. 03, 1927. — Baran- 



oi- f, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc, vol. 82, p. 404, 1934. (Genotype, S. sumatrana 



Townsend. By original designation.) 

 Eucarcelia Babanoff, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc., vol. 82, p. 393, 1934. (Genotype, 



Tachina c.rcisa Fallen. P>y original designation.) (New synonymy.) 

 Oxexorista Townsend (partim), Manual of myiology, pt. 4, pp. 206-207, ::09-212, 

 1936. (New synonymy.) 



The customary procedure lias been to accept Tachina gnava Meigen 

 ( = Carcelia bombylans Robineau-Desvoidy) as the genotype. In 

 3912 Villeneuve separated C . bombylans and C. gnava as two distinct 

 species, and at the same time he indicated that gnava of Macquart 

 (nee Meigen) — bombylans. Stein disagreed with Villeneuve and 

 again synonymized the two forms. Townsend considers the two spe- 

 cies to be synonymous. By further study the two species gnava and 

 bombylans have been definitely separated, which confirms Ville- 

 neuve's disposition of the two species. Carcelia bombylans Robineau- 

 Desvoidy, an included species, must be accepted as the genotype. 

 The issue is complicated further by a third species (numerous speci- 

 mens reared from Dasychira pudibunda (Linnaeus) and one specimen 

 from Orgyla gonosiigma (Fabricius) in the gnava complex which 

 has been placed in the so-called bombylans group, but in most char- 

 acteristics it more closely approximates the species gnava). This 

 third species is Can sa Macquart ( = amphion Robineau-Des- 



voidy) (=angusta Brauer and Bergenstamm) . Its relationship 

 with Carcelia bombylans remains to be settled by comparison with 

 (he type, using our present-day conception of what constitute specific 

 characters in the genus Carcelia. This does not invalidate the ac- 

 ceptance of bombylans as the genotype. 



Baranoff, using Townsend in part, has divided the genus Carcelia 

 for the Palearctic and Oriental realms into 15 genera. He recognized 

 3 genera {Euryclea Rondani (= Plematomyia Brauer and Bergen- 

 stamm), Isocarcelia Villeneuve, and Tricarcelia Baranoff] as being 

 peculiar to the Palearctic species, 9 genera \CaU '■/ Townsend, 



Myxocarcelia Baranoff, Carceliella Baranoff, Eocarcelia Townsend 

 {—Eocarceliopsw Townsend), MicrocarceUa Baranoff, Zygocarcelia 

 Townsend, Carceliopsis Townsend, Isocarceliopsis Baranoff, and 

 Asiocarcelia Baranoff] tor the Oriental species, and 3 genera [Car- 



