W. D. HUNTER. 297 



PENTHERA. 

 Philippi, Chil. Dipt. 639, 1865. 

 nigra Phil. chil. Dipt. 640, pi. xxiv, f. 18.— Chile. 



PENTHETRIA. 

 Meigen, Syst. Beschr. i, 237, 1851. 

 nigrita Perty, Del. Auim. Art. Bras. 180, pi. xxxvi, f. 1. — Brazil. 



LOBOGASTER. 

 Philippi, Chil. Dipt. 632, 1865. 

 paradoxus Phil. chil. Dipt. 632, pi. xxiv, f. 6. — Chile, 

 philippi Schiner, Dipt. Novara, 23. — Chile. 



Species Described by Walker. 



Plecia flavimaculata Walk. List, i, 116. — Venezuela. 



Plecia maura Walk. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond, xvii, 336. — Brazil. 



Family SIMULIID^E. 



SIMULIUM. 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. iii, 1802. 

 annulatum Phil. chil. Dipt. 634.— Chile, 

 antarcticum Bigot, Dipt. Miss. Cap Horn, 15. — Cape Horn, 

 anthracinum Bigot, Dipt. Miss. Cap Horn, 15. — Cape Horn, 

 chilense Phil. chil. Dipt. 634. Bigot, Dipt. Miss. Cap Horn, 15. — Valdivia. 

 chilianhum Phil. Rond. Dipt. Exot. 90.- Chile, 

 fulvescens Blanch. Gay. Hist. Chil. Zool. vii, 353. Phil. chil. Dipt. 633. Bigot, 



Dipt. Miss. Cap Horn, 15. — Chile, 

 montanum Phil. chil. Dipt. 633. — Chile, 

 nigrimana Macq. Dipt. Exot. i, I, 88. — Brazil, 

 pulchrum Phil. chil. Dipt. 633. Tarsale Will. Dipt. St. Vincent, 268, pi. viii, f. 



25, 25a.— St. Vincent, 

 tarsatum Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl. i, 148.— New Granada, 

 tarsatum Phil. chil. Dipt. 634.— Chile, 

 varipes Phil. chil. Dipt. 634.— Chile, 

 sic Roeder, Dipt. Stuehel, 4.— Peru. 



Family BLEPHAROCERID^E. 



See Osten Sacken, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xl, 1895, pp. 148-169, 351-355. 



PALTOSTOMA. 

 Schiner, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. 1866, p. 931. 

 Schineri Will. Dipt. St. Vincent, 269, pi. viii, f. 27, 27a, 276.— St. Vincent, 

 superbiens Schiner, Dipt. Novara, 28. Osten Sacken, Dipt. Biol. C. A. i, 5.— 

 South America, Mexico. 



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