ORTALIDAE. 181 



FAMILY ORTALIDAE. r'")- 



SECTION I. PYRGOTINA. 



Pyrsota. 



Wiedemann, Aiiss. Zw. II, 581; 1830; Loew, Monogr. Ill, 72. 



*filiola Loew, Zeitschr. f. Ges. Naturw. Dec. 1876, 332. — Texas. 

 Pijrgota dchiJis 0. Sacken, Western Dipt. 343. — Kentucky. 

 fenestrata Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 4, 281; Tab. XXVI, f. 1 

 (Oxycephcda). — Noi'tli America [Macquart gives no locality, but 

 says : „same locality as Oxycephala juscipcnnis", wbich is Pyrgota 

 undata]. C-^*). 

 pterophorina Gerstaecker, Stett. Ent. Z. XXI, 190; Tab. II, f. 6; 

 Loew, Monogr. Ill, 81. — Carolina. 

 ♦undata Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 581; Tab. X, f. 6; Macquart, Hist. 

 Nat. Dipt. II, 423; Tab. XVIII, f. 23; Harris, Ins. Injur, to Veget. 

 3d edit. 610 f. 268 (Sphcconu/ia); Gerstaecker, Stett. Ent. Z. XXI, 

 188; Tab. II, f. 7 and 7a; Loew, Monogr. Ill, 77. — Not rare 

 especially in the northern States, from Massachusetts to Kansas. 

 (A specimen exactly like P. uiuhda is labelled „Brazil" in the Vienna 

 Museum. This occurrence requires confirmation, like that of 

 Bittacomorpha davipes, recorded from Brazil in the same Museum.) 

 Mijopa nicjripennis Gray, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, Tab. 125, f. 5. 

 Oxycepiliala fascipennif^'M^C(\ViAxi, Dipt. Exot. 11,3, 198; Tab. XXVI, 

 f. 6 [!]. — No locality. (Macq. 4e Suppl. 281, America.) 

 *vali(la Harris, Ins. Injur, to veget. 3^ edit. 611 {Sphccomyia). — Nor- 

 thern and Middle States, i^-'^). 

 Pyrgota milUpuiidata Loew, Neue Beitr. II, 22, 50; Monogr. Ill, 74. 

 ? Oxycephala maculipennis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. I, 210; 

 Tab. XVIII, f 12. 

 yespertilio Gerstaecker, Stett. Ent. Z. XXI, 189; Tab. II, f. 8; Loew, 

 Monogr. Ill, 79. — Carolina. 



Toxotrypaiia. 



Gerstaecker, Stett. Ent. Z. XXI, 191 ; 1860. 



CurvicaTHla Gerstaecker, Stett. Ent. Z. XXI, 194; Tab. II, f. 9. - 

 West Indies (Island St. Jean, in the small Antilles). 



SECTION II. PLATYSTOMINA. 



AnipliiciicpliofS. 



Loew, .Alonogr. Ill, 83; 1873. 



*pertnsTis Loew, ]Monogr. Ill, 84; Tab. VIII, f. 1. — Distr. Columbia; 

 Connecticut-, Carolina; Texas. 



Hiiticroessa. 



Loew, Monogr. Ill, b5; 1873. 

 *pretiosa Loew, Monogr. Ill, 85; Tab. VIII, f. 2. — Cuba. 



