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Thorax blackish, faintly cinereous pollinose, the pollen whiter on mesoscutum 

 which shows the usual four rather narrow interrupted vittse. Scutellum brown. 

 Abdomen black, subshining with only very faint suggestions of tawny pollen 

 which is more noticeable on anal segment. Legs blackish, tibise reddish in 

 middle, claws moderately elongate, pulvilli pale yellowish, front femora pol- 

 linose outwardly. Wings rather evenly infuscated, more deeply so on extreme 

 base, two lighter streaks in submarginal and second posterior cells. Teguloe 

 wholly deeply smoky-infuscate, rather pearly-fuscous. 



Type, TD4081 (fly, reproductive system, slide of maggots). 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Change of Generic Names. — According to the generally ac- 

 cepted law of priority a number of generic names of Coleoptera have 

 been changed and adopted for quite a time already in European lists 

 and catalogues, while American coleopterologists still follow the 

 rather antiquated Henshaw list. 



The change has affected certain families more than others. In 

 the old family Trogositidse, of which I have a revision nearly ready, 

 only three generic names reinain, Nemosoma, Calytis and Thymahis, 

 the rest are changed and some new names added. 



The species in our list included in the genus Nemosoma do nol 

 belong there but in the genus Corticotomiis Sharp as I have already 

 pointed out on several occasions. Our North American species must 

 be absent in European collections otherwise Reitter, Sharp, Leveille 

 and others would have noticed and corrected the mistake long ago. 



The only described North American species of Nemosoma is the 

 one described by Fall as Pseudalindria fissiceps. 



Airora Reit. has to be used instead of Alindria. Reitter separated 

 long ago the species of the new world from those of the old world on 

 the form of the antennal club which is dilated only on one side in the 

 former and on both sides in the latter. 



Temnochila Westw. is to be used for the species listed as 

 Trogosita. 



Tencbroides Pill. & Mitterp. for Tcnehnoides. 



Calitys Thoms. remains unchanged. 



Ostoma Laich. for the species in our list under Pelfis and Gryno- 

 eharis. except G. pilosula Cr. 



