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APIOCERID^. 



The relations of the group, and the question of family rank, have been ex- 

 haustively discussed in the following papers : 

 OsTEN Sacken, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xxvii, 1883, 287. 

 WiLLiSTON, Psyche, 1888, 100, and Kans. Univ. Quart., i, loi, 1893, two plates. 



APIOCERA. 



Westwood, London and Edinb. Philos. Mag., 1835 ; Arcana Ent., i, 50, 



1841. 

 Macquart, Dipt. Exot., i, i, 78, 1838 {Tapinocera). 

 Macquart, Dipt. Exot. SuppL, 11, 47, 1847 (Pomacera). 

 Phillippi, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges., 1865, 702, pi. xxv, f. 26 (Anypemis). 

 augur OsTEN Sacken, Biologia, Dipt., i, 2. — Presidio, Mex. 

 haruspex Osten Sacken, West. Dipt., 283. — Yosemite, Cal. There is a cor- 

 rection of the desc. in Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xxvir, 300. 

 Coquillett, Psyche, 1885, 244. 

 Wash.— J. M. A. 



APOMYDAS. 

 Coquillett, Canad. Ent., xxiv, 314, 1892 (Apomidas). 

 trochilus Coquillett, Canad. Ent., xxiv, 315. — Merced Co., Cal. 



RHAPHIOMYDAS. 



Osten Sacken, West. Dipt., 281, 1877. 

 TowNSEND, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, 601, table of species. 

 acton Coquillett, West. Amer. Scientist, vii, 84. — Los Angeles Co., Cal. 



TowNSEND, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, 602. — Sonora, Mex. 

 episcopus Osten Sacken, West. Dipt., 282.^Cal., or perhaps Lower Cal. 



TowNSEND, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, 603. — Lower Cal. The comparison 

 with episcopus made by Coquillett in describing acton refers to mellifex 

 instead. 

 mellifex Townsend, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, 604.— Lower Cal. 



Coquillett, West American Scientist, vii, 84 (episcopus). — Los Angeles 

 Co., Cal. [Townsend.] 

 xanthos Townsend, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, 606. — Lower Cal. Also in Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, xxvii, 161, oc. in Las Cruces, N. M. 



ASILID.l^. 



LEPTOGASTER. 



Meigen, Illig. Mag., 11, 269, 1803. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., xiv, 309 (Gonypes), 1804. 

 Meigen, Syst. Beschr., 11, 258, 1820. 

 Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt., i, 315 (Gonypes), 1834. 

 Zetterstedt, Dipt. Scand., x, 186, 1842. 

 Schiner, Fauna Austr., i, 117, 1862. 



Williston, Biologia, Dipt., i, 298, partial table of Mexican species, 1901. 

 annulatus Say, Jour. Acad. Sci. Phil., iii, 75; Compl. Works, 11, 68. — Pa. 



Wiedemann, Auss. Zw., i, 535 (histrio; no reason for change of name). 

 Schiner, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges., 1867, 356, notes on Wiedemann speci- 

 men. 

 N. J.— Smith Cat.; Province of Quebec— Fyles (histrio). 



