Sept., I9I3-] Melander: Synopsis of Diptera. 237 



spaced reclinate fronto-orbitals descend below the middle of the front; 

 cheeks one third the eye-height ; anal and second basal cells wanting, 

 alula wanting (?), base of costa with bristly hairs; ovipositor large, 

 broadly oval; labella fleshy and short. (Europe.) 



Pseudopomyaa Strobl. 



21. Third antennal joint not large; three upper fronto-orbitals; bristles long, 



the apical scutellars diverging; naiddle and hind femora slightly en- 

 larged ; palpi greatly compressed, bare except for a few bristles on 

 lower edge and at tip ; base of costa with short fine hairs, the sections 

 of the fourth vein 1:3; eyes round; testaceous species. (North 



America.) Sfomosis n. g. 



Third antennal joint very large, in the male quadrate and woolly-pubescent ; 

 two or three upper fronto-orbitals ; scutellars converging ; femora not 

 incrassate ; base of costa with short bristly hairs, the penultimate 

 section of the fourth vein less than one third the length of the ulti- 

 mate ; eyes vertically lengthened; black species. (North America.) 



Neophyllomyza n. g. 



22. Wings rudimentary, scarcely longer than the scutellum ; abdomen broadly 



swollen ; one oral vibrissa ; antennas lying in a deep facial groove ; 

 mesonotum without discal macrochastse. Parasitic on birds. (Europe.) 

 (See: Collin, Nov. Zool., 18, 138 (1911).) Car«H.f Nitzsch. ■ 



Wings normal, longer than the abdomen ; abdomen not swollen ; not para- 

 sitic 23. 



2;^. Second, third and fourth veins curving forward, ending before the tip of 

 the wing; posterior crossvein beyond the middle of the wing; costa 

 reaching the fourth vein ; scutellum large, with lateral spinous tuber- 

 cles near the apex, the apical scutellar bristles diverging ; mesonotum 

 punctulate, pleurae smooth; cheeks very narrow. (Africa.) 



Rhodesiella Adams. 



Fourth vein ends beyond the wing-tip ; scutellum normal, the apical bristles 

 cruciate ; mesonotum not punctulate ; mesopleural bristles present ; 

 cheeks comparatively broad 24. 



24. Costa continuing to the fourth vein ; posterior crossvein much beyond the 



end of the first vein, the penultimate section of the fourth vein longer 

 than the ultimate section of the fifth ; costa not bristly ; face strongly 

 carinate; postverticals parallel; one pair of interf rental cruciate bris- 

 tles ; anterior dorsocentral present. (North America.) .Paraniadisa n. g. 

 Costa evanescent beyond the third vein ; discal cell minute, the penulti- 

 mate section of the fourth vein about one fourth the length of the 

 ultimate section of the fifth vein 25. 



25. Entire costa with well-separated bristles ; second and third veins converg- 



ing ; center of the front with many rough hairs ; face with a hemi- 

 spherical subantennal depression; anterior dorsocentral present; tibiae 



compressed. (Asia.) Horaismoptera Hendel. 



Costa not spinose, but pectinate with stiff bristles up to the end of the 



