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Lordatia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 808, 1830. 2 species (as 5). T3'pe, Lordalia 

 coprina Desvoidy, the second (fourth supposed) species, by present designation. 

 Equals Cypsela Meigen, 1800. 



Lordotus LoEw, Berhner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 7, p. 303, 1863. 1 species. Type, Lor- 

 dotus gihhus Loew. 



Lotobia Lioy, Atti Inst. Veneto, ser. 3, vol. 9, p. 11 14, 1864. 1 species. Type, 

 Borbonis pallldiventris Meigen. Equals Cypsela Meigen, 1800. 



Loxocera Meigen, Illiger's Mag., vol. 2, p. 275, 1803. 1 species (as 2). Type, 

 Musca ichneumonea Linn.eus. 



Lucilia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 452, 1830. 17 species (as 37). Type, Musca 

 csesar Linn.eus, the first species, by designation of Macquart, Recueil See. Sci. Arts 

 Lille for 1833-34, p. 162. Syn., Mya Rondani, 1850; Somomya Rondani, 1861; 

 Phenicia Desvoidy, 1863. 



Lutzia Theobald, Monogr. Culic, vol. 3, p. 155, 1903. 1 species. Type, Culexbigotii 

 Bellardi. 



Lycastrirhyncha Bigot, Rev. Mag. Zool. for 1859, p. 3, 1859. 1 species. Type, 

 Lyca»trirhyncha nitens Bigot. 



Lycia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 637, 1830. 10 species. Type, Sapromyza wrida 

 Fallen (as fara, new species), the first species, by present designation. Equals 

 Sapromyza Fallen, 1810. 



Lycoria Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch., p. 17, 1800.* No species. Sciara Meigen, 

 1803, is a change of name. Type, Tipula thorn x Lixn.eus. Syn., Sciara Meigen, 

 1803; Molobrus Latreille, 1805. 



Lydella Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 112, 1830. 7 species (as 12). Type, Tachina 

 nigripes Fallen (as grisescens, new species), the first species, by designation of Des- 

 voidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 1, 1863, p. 855. Syn., Blondelia Desvoidy, 1830; Anetia 

 Desvoidy, 1863; CyrilUa Desvoidy, 1863; Picconia Desvoidy, 1863; Gervaisia Des- 

 voidy, 1863; Dexodes Brauer and Bergenstamm, 1889; Aporotachina Meade, 1894; 

 AUophurocera Hendel, 1901; Purade.iodt's Townsend, 1908. 



Lydina Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 124, 1830. 1 species (as 3). Type, Tachina 

 snea Meigen. Syn., Harrisia Meigen, 1838; PoUdea Macquart, 1848; Somoleja 

 Rondani, 1865. 



Lynchia Weyenberg, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argentim. for 1881, p. 195, 1881. 1 spe- 

 cies. Type, Lynchia penelopes Weyenberg. 



Lynchiella Lahille, Act. Trab. Congr. Med. Lat.-Amer., vol. 2, p. 13, 1904. Change 

 of name of Megarhinus Desvoidy, 1827, under the mistaken idea that the latter is 

 preoccupied by Megarhma St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828. Type, Culex h.vmor- 

 rhoidalis Fabricius. Equals Megarhinus Desvoidy, 1827. 



Li/j)€romi 'RojiDANi, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 93, 1856. 1 species. Type, Conops 

 irritans Linn.eus. - Equals Haematobia St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828. 



Lyphe Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 141, 1830. 1 species (as 2). Type, Tachina 

 du^io Fallen. Syn., Jporowii/a Rondani, 1859; Enthenis Dehvoidy, 1863. 



Lyroneurus Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 1, p. 38, 1857. 2 species. Type, 

 Lyroneurus coerulescens Loew, the first species, by present designation. Equals 

 Diaphorus Meigen, 1824. 



Lythia Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 1, p. 707, 1863. 1 species. Type, Lxjthia 

 flaiicornis Desvoidy. Equals Ceranthia Desvoidy, 1830. 



Lytogaster Becker, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 41, p. 202, 1896. 1 species. Type, 

 Philygria abdominal is Stenhammer. 



Macellocerus Mik, Jahresb. k.-k. Akad. Gymas., p. 3, 1878. 1 species. Type, 

 Tachytrechus ma'chus Loew. Equals Tachytrechus Haliday, 1851. 



Machserxa Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 3, p. 159, 1859. 1 species. Type, 

 Tachina concinnata Meigen (as serriventris, new species) . Equals Compsilura Bouchk, 

 1834. 



