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what species he has mistaken for T. gnttidaris I have not as yet made 

 out." Loew, ^lonogr. I, p. 108. 



290. Loxocera. On the european species, see Loew, Schlcs. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1857. 



291. Calotata lasciva Fah , "Wied. == alhimaua Macq. I assume the 

 synonj'my on the authority ot Schiner, who had the advantage of com- 

 paring Wiedemann's types. I do not pretend to decide, wliethcr 

 Macqu.irt is right in referring to tlie same species the specimens from 

 Cuba, I'liiladelphia, Java and Port Jackson. 



As to Tacniaptcra triviitida. Macquart, Dipt. Exot. II, 3, p. 240, 

 says : „The genus Taoiiapfcrn, which I established in the Suites a Buffo)i, 

 has for type a species allied to some exotic Calohutae. I suppress it." 

 The reason is not given, but the probable cause may have been the 

 loss of the original specimen, which would explain why Macquart, in 

 giving up the genus, never mentions the species again. I look upon 

 the synonymy of C. olhimann Macq. (which is a Taeniaptera in Macquart's 

 sense), with T. trivittata Macq. as certain. Compare also Loew, Beschr. 

 Eur. Dipt. Ill, p. 254. 



292. About the european, as well as the exotic Micropezae, com- 

 pare Loew, Berk Ent. Zeit. XII, 1868, p. 161—167, also pag. 393. 



293. The third volume of the Monographs of the N. A. Diptera 

 ^1873) contains a monograph of the N, A. Ortalidae by Dr. Loew, with an 

 introduction, concerning the classitication of the Ortalidae in general, and a 

 review of the work of previous authors on the same subject; however, 

 no notice is taken of the new genera published by Dr. Schiner 

 (Novara etc.); nor of Prof Rondani's Ovtalidinae italicae. The article 

 by Dr. Loew: Die N. A. Ulidina, in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 

 283, was the precursor of his larger publication, but also contains South- 

 American species. 



294. Oxycephala fenestrata and 0. fuscipencis. I have seen the 

 types of both in the ^Museum of the Jardin des Plantes. 0. fenestrata 

 seems to be a different species. 



295. Pyrgota, valida. AVhen Mr. Loew set aside this name, as a 

 more catalogue -name, he overlooked its publication by Mr. Harris in 

 the Ins. Inj. to Vegetation. 



296. Ortalis Ortoeda The specimens in the Brit. Museum bearing 

 this name are Chcutopsis oenca. 



297. Herina splendens- I owe this synonymy to Mr. v. Roedor. 



298. Urophora nigriventris Macquart. Dr. Loew, in the Monogr. 

 etc. Vol. Ill, p. 337, says about this species that it is a Trypetid of 

 doubtful systematic position; but not an Urophora. Macquart's de- 

 scription made me suspect that this was simply Campdoneura pidn. As 

 I had overlooked this species, while examining ^Ir. Bigot's collection in 

 Paris, I wrote to him about it, and he kindly informed me, that „after 

 a careful comi)arison of the types in his collection, labelled in Macquart's 

 own handwriting, he finds no difference between U. nigriventris Macq. 

 and Cumptoneura picta Macq." 



