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Genus RACODINEURA Rond. 



Eoexelia Dcsvoitly, Essai sur li;s Myoclaires, p. 145; 1830. (Xou Iliiebner, 1816.) 

 liacodineura Rondaui, Dipterologiio Italiciu Proilromiis, Vol. IV, p. 31; 1861. 



The latter term Avas proposed by Koiidani to take the place of lloes- 

 elia, which had previously been used in the Lepidoptera. Our single 

 species is black, the autenuje, lower part of face, pali)i, femora, and 

 tibiii' yellow; iront of female slightly over twice as wide as either eye, 

 two pairs of orbital bristles, frontal bristles descending to tip of sec- 

 ond aiitennal joint; sides of face at narrowest point each almost one- 

 half as wide as the median depression, thinly bristly one-lifth of 

 distance from lowest frontal to the vibrissjc, the latter on a level Avith 

 front edge of oral margin; ridges bristly on the lower half, but the 

 ui)permost bristles very short; cheeks slightly over one-half as broad 

 as the eye height; antenna' almost as long as the face, the third joint 

 tive times as long as the second, arista thickened to the middle, the 

 penultimate joint broader than long; thorax gray pollinose, marked 

 with four black vittiB, four postsutural and three sternopleural mac- 

 lodueta^; scutellum bearing four long marginal pairs; abdomen opaque 

 gray pollinose, first three segments bearing marginal macrocha'ta', mid- 

 dle tibia' each bearing three or more on the front side near the middle; 

 wings hyaline, the base grayish, third vein bearing a single bristle 

 near the base, hind crossvein nearly straight, midway between the 

 small and the bend of the fourth; calypteres white; length, 9 mm. 

 Tifton, Ga. A female specimen collected October 1, 1896, by Mr. G. E. 

 Pilate. Type No. 8545, U. S. National Museum americana n. sp. 



Genus ERVIA Desv. 



J'Jrvia Desvoidy, Essai snr les Myodaires, p. 225; 1830. 



Our single species is black, the face and more or less of the antennae, 

 femora, and tibiae, also the greater portion of the sides of the first three 

 segments of the abdomen in the male, yellow; three postsutural and 

 three sternopleural macrocha'ta*,; length, 7 to 10 mm. Agricultural 

 College, Miss., and Lufkin, Tex. (Encyclopedie Methodique, Vol. 

 Vlll, p. 423 ; 1811 : Ocyptera.) triquctra Oliv. 



Genus LESKIA Desv. 



Lefikia Desvoidy, Essai snr les Myodaires, p. 100; 1830. 



Mjiohia Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. Jt8. {Non lleyden; 1826.) 



Solinia Desvoidy, Auuales Soo. Ent. France, p. 461; 1848. 



Orillia Desvoidy, loc. cit., p. 474. 



Antliotca Roudani, Diptcrologia- Italica- Prodromns, Vol. IV, p. 8; 1861. 



Vyrrosia Rondani, loc. cit., p. 48. 



llondani proposed the name Anthoica for Myobia, which is preoccu- 

 pied in the Arachnida, and erected the genus Pyrrosia to include Les- 

 kia, Solieria, and Orillia. Brauer and liergenstamm place Leskia and 



