116 INSECUTOR INSCITI^T5 MENSTRUUS 



Buaraba Townsend, 1915, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 

 20 equals Araba R. D. (1S30). Coquillett (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XXXVII, 509) cites designation of R. D. for Argyria 

 R. D. (Posth., II, 83) as applying to Araba R. D., under which 

 ruling the latter genus would become a synonym of Metopia 

 Meigen (1803). It was to fill the place which would be left 

 vacant by the deposition of Araba that Buaraba was erected. 

 Coquillett's ruling, however, can not hold, and B. B.'s designa- 

 tion of fastuosa Meig. as type of Araba must be accepted 

 (Muse. Schiz., II, 359; III, 168). Since tergata Coq., type 

 of Buaraba, appears to be strictly congeneric with fastuosa 

 Mg., the above synonymy results. 



Neophyto nocturnalis Walton, 1915, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 

 XVII, 162 equals Nkophyto anomala Townsend (1908). The 

 wing-veins are normally deeply colored, and may be narrowly 

 edged with smoky, especially in the female. 



Neophorichccta johnsoni PI. E. Smith, June, 1915, Psyche, 

 XXII, 100 equals Tricogena setipennis Coq., 1897, Rev. Tach., 

 130, which is type of Eutricogena Townsend, February, 1915, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 23. 



Laccoprosopa Townsend, 1891, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XVIII, 

 365 equals Brachicoma Rdi. (1856). Genotypes strictly 

 congeneric. 



Sarcotachinella Townsend, 1892, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XIX, 

 110-11. Dr. J. M. Aldrich has called my attention (in litt. 

 Sept. 16, 1915) to this form and states : "I have examined your 

 type of Sarcotachinella intermedia and spread its genitalia. It 

 is nothing but the European Sarcophaga sinuata Mg." In reply 

 to my query as to probable differences in male genitalia of 

 sinuata and carnaria, Dr. Aldrich writes (in litt. Sept. 30, 

 1915) : "Sarcophaga carnaria and sinuata are closely allied in 

 most respects, differing most obviously in that the former has 

 four, the latter three, postsutural dorsocentrals, and sinuata also 

 has generally a very distinct patch of yellow tomentum on the 

 front side of the middle femur near apex in both sexes (which, 

 however, is bleached and rather pale in your type of Sarcotachi- 

 nella). I do not think there is any generic difference between 

 them." The genus may rest on the known characters, however, 



