fReprinted from Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. XXI, 



No. 2, June, 1913.] 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE DIPTEROUS GROUPS AGRO- 



MYZIN^, MILICHIIN^, OCHTHIPHILIN^ 



AND GEOMYZIN^.^ 



By a. L. Melander, 



Pullman, Washington. 



There need be no apology offered for the issuance of the following 

 paper. Our species have been neglected; many of the commonest 

 forms remain unidentified; there is no adequate tabulation of the spe- 

 cies or even of the genera, and the determination, therefore, of a 

 species necessitates laborious searching among scattered descriptions ; 

 furthermore, a surprising number of European species occur also in 

 America. Although based almost entirely on my own collection, and 

 therefore necessarily far from a complete treatment, this contribution 

 brings to light so many species new to America as to justify its ap- 



1 Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory of the State College of 

 Washington. 



