DEXIDAE. 155 



Observation. This genus, now abandoned, seems to have prin- 

 cipally Jcontained Tachinina, approaching the Dcxina in their 

 appearance. Schiner places the european species under the head 

 of Fhyto Rob. Desvoidy. 



FAMILY DEXIDAE. 

 Prosciia. 



St. Fargeau et Serville, Encycl. Method. X, 500; 1825. 



*mexlcana Macquart, Dipt. Exot. 4^ Suppl. 231; Tab. XXI, f. 12, — 

 Mexico. 



Dexia. 



Meigen, System. Beschr. V, 33; 1826. 



abdominalis R. Desvoidy, Myod. 306, 2 (Estheria). — Nova Scotia. 



Abzoe Walker, List, etc. IV, 846. — Georgia. 



albil'rous Walker, Dipt. Saund., 317. — United States. 



analis Say, J. Acad. Phil. Yl, 177, 2: Compl. Wr. II, 366. — Indiana. 



aualis R. Desvoidy, Myod. 315, 3 (Zdin). - Carolina. 



apicalis R. Desvoidy, Myod. 316, 4 (Zdia). — Carolina. 



caiiescens Walker, Dipt. Saund., 310. — United States. 



cerata Walker. List, etc. IV, 847. — North America. 



Creinidcs Walker, List, etc. IV, 842. — North America. 



dives W^iedemann, Auss. Z\v. II, 377, 15. — Kentucky. 



Halone W'alker, List, etc. IV, 837. — Georgia. 



Harpasa AValker, List, etc. IV, 840. — North America. 



melauoccra R. Desvoidy, Myod. 312, 2. — Carolina. 



Og'oa Walker, List, etc. IV, 841. — Nova Scotia. 



pedestris Walker, Dipt. Saund., 313. — United States. 



postica Walker, List, etc. IV, 310. — Georgia. 



punctata R. Desvoidy, Myod. 308, 3 (Dinera). — Philadelphia, 



Prexaspes Walker, List, etc. IV, 837 (Efttheria). Georgia. 



Pristis Walker, List, etc. IV, 841. — Massachusetts. 



rostrata R. Desvoidy, Myod. 315, 1 (Zdia). — North America. 



rufipouuis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. II, 3, 87, 3; Tab. X, f. 3. - Nova 



Scotia. 

 tibialis R. Desvoidy, Myod. 306, 1 (Estheria). — Nova Scotia. 

 triaiig-ularis v. d. Wulp, Tijdschr. v. Eut. 2^ Ser. II, 149; Tab. V, 



f . 1 5. — Wisconsin. 

 velox R. Desvoidy, Myod. 316, 5 (Zdia). — Carolina. 

 *Yertcbrata Say, J. Acad. Phil. VI, 176, 1; Compl. Wr. II, 366. — 



Indiana. 



fnscaiiipennis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. l" Suppl. 188, 7; Tab. XX, 



f. 11. — Yucatan. 

 perfecta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. V, 307. — Mexico. 

 plumosa Wiedemann, Auss. Z\v. II, 370; Bigot, in R. de la Sagra 



etc. 815. — Brazil (Wied.); Cuba (Bigot). 



