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In the present case we have the consolation, in abandoning a well- 

 known and long-used name, that we are going back to a classic au- 

 thor and a historic work, and choosing a name based on an unques- 

 tioned genotype. Even with this much in favor of Cylindromyia^ I 

 confess I debated the matter a long time in my own mind, and finally 

 yielded Avith reluctance to what seems the logical conclusion. 



Genus CYLINDROMYIA Meigen 



Meigen, Illig. Mag., vol. 2, 1803, p. 279. Sole species, Musca brassicaria Fab- 



ricius. 

 Latreille, Hist. nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 14, 1805, p. 378 {Ocyptera, with 3 



species, of which Musca brassicaria was designated as type by Curtis, Brit. 



Ent, 1837, p. 629). 

 Fallen, Rhizomyzides, 1820, p. 5 (Ocyptcra). 

 Meigen, Syst. Beschr., vol. 4, 1824, p. 209 ( Ocypteru ) . 

 Robineau-Desvoidy, Myodaires, 1830. pp. 229, 231 {Ocyptera and Partheniu, 



the latter with 3 species, of which Coquillett designated boscii as type in hia 



Type-Species, 1910, p. 585). 

 Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 2, 1835, p. 180; Dipt. Nord Fr.. 1834, p. 215; 



Dipt. Exot., vol. 2, pt. 3, 1843, p. 232 (all Ocyptcra). 

 Zetterstedt, Dipt. Scandinav., vol. 3, 1845, p. 1219 {Ocyptera). 

 Rondani, Dipt. Italicae. Prod., vol. 1, 1856, p. 78; vol. 4, 1861, p. 122 (both 



Ocyptera). 

 ScHiNER, Fauna Austriaca, vol. 1, 18G2, p. 412 (Ocyptcra). 

 Osten Sacken, Wien. Ent. Ztg., vol. 1, 1882, p. 191, says Cylindromyia is prior, 



but prefers to retain Ocyptera. 

 Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweifl. Kais. Mus.. vol. 4, 1889. p. 138; vol. 5, 1891, 



pp. 387, 407; vol. 6, 1893, p. 143 (all Ocyptera). 

 Pandelle, Revue Entom., vol. 13, 1894, pp. 32, 57 (Ocyptera). 

 CoQuiLLETT, Revis. Tachin., 1897, p. 86, key to North Amei'ican species (Ocyp- 

 tera) ; Type-Species, 1910, 529, adopts Cylindromyia (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 37). 

 ViLLENEUVE, Wien. Ent. Ztg., vol. 22, 1903, p. 37 (Ocyptera, European species. 



with notes on Meigen's types). 

 Van uer Wulp, Biologia, Dipt., vol. 2, 1903, p. 449, key to North American 



species (Ocyptera). 

 Bezzi, Wien. Ent. Ztg., vol. 26, 1907, p. 55 ; Kat. Pal. Dipt., vol. 3, 1908, p. 429 



(both Ocyptcra) . 

 TowNSEND, Muscoid Flies, 1908 (Smiths. Misc. Colls., vol. 51, No. 1803), p. 81, 



notes on species (Ocyptera) ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 14, 1912, p. 48, 



adopts Cylindromyia, notes on habits ; Insecutor Ins. Menst., vol. 3, 1915, p. 



94 (Apinocyptera, type nignakt, new) ; Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 23, 



1915, p. 233 (Odontocyptcra, type nana, new) ; Insecutor Ins. Menst., vol. 4, 



1916, p. 32 (Ncocypiera, type dosiadcs Walker) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 

 49, 1916, p. 631 (Ocyptcrodes, type cuchcnor Walker). 



Apstein, Sitzungsber. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1915, No. 5, p. 166, lists 

 Ocyptera, type brassicaria Fabricius, in his proposed nomina conservanda. 



Stein, Archiv. f. Naturgesch., vol. 96, 1924, p. 173, key to European species, 

 with brief descriptions (Ocyptera). 



The species of Cylindromyia' b,vq, remarkably uniform in most of 

 their characters; even those which show specializations in the female 



