NO. 1719. TYPE-SPECIES OF AMERICAN DIPTERA—COQVILLETT. 591 



Picconia Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 38, 1863. 1 species. Type, Ta- 

 china nifjnjws Fallen (as hipartUa, new species"). Equals Lydella Desvoidy^ 1830. 



Pictima Desvoidy, Dipt. Env. Paris, Myop., p. 15, 1853.* 1 species. Type, Pic- 

 liniafulvipalpls Desvoidy. Equals Stomoxoides Sch^effer, 1766. 



Pierrelia Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 422, 1863. 14 supposed species. 

 Type, Sdrcopharja nigrircntris MeKtEN, equaling supposed species 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 

 12, by present designation. Equals Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826. 



Pilaria Sintensis, Sitzb. Nat.-Ges. Dorpat, vol. 8, p. 398, 1889. 2 species. Type, 

 Limnobia pilicornis Zetterstedt, the second species, by present designation. Equals 

 Phylidorea Bigot, 1854- 



Piophila Fallen, Spec. Ent. Meth. Exh., p. 20, 1810. 1 species. Type, Musca 

 Cdsri Linnaeus. Syn., Ti/rophngn Kirby, 1817; Stearibia Lioy, 1864. 



Pipiza Fallen, Spec. Ent. Meth. Exh., p. 11, 1810. No species. In his Syrphici 

 Svecipe, 1817, pp. 58 to 61, 8 species. Type, Musca noctilucn Linn^us, the second 

 species, by designation of Curtis, Brit. Ent., 1837, p. 669. Syn., PJiahmgus Meigen, 

 1822; Heringia Rondani, 1856; Pipizella Rondani, 1856. 



PipizeUa Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p.' 54, 1856. 1 species. Type, Mulio 

 virens Fabricius. Equals Pipiza Fallen, 1810. 



Pipunculus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 3, p. 463, 1802. 1 species. 

 Type, Pipunculus campestris Latreille. Equals Dorilas Meigen, 1800. 



Pissemi/a Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1851, p. 318, 1851. 1 species. 

 Type, Gonia fasciata Wiedemann (asrt/ro Meigen). Equals Spallanzania Desvoidy, 

 1830. 



Pithogaster Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 1, p. 33, 1857. 1 species. Type, 

 Pithogaster mflatus Loew. Equals Opsebius Costa, 1856. 



Pityocera GiGLio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino, vol. 11, No. 224, p. 3, 1896. 

 1 species. Type, Pityocera festx Giglio-Tos. 



Plagia Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 7, p. 201, 1838. 6 species. Type, 

 Tachina ruralis Fallen (as verticaUs Meigen), the second species, by designation of 

 Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, 1856, p. 69. Equals Voria Desvoidy, 1830. 

 {Plagia oi authors equals Siphoplagia Townsend.) 



Plagiocera Macquart, Dipt. Exot., vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 59, 1842. 2 species. Type, 

 Milesia acuta Fabricius (as cruciger Wiedemann), the first species, by present desig- 

 nation. Not Plagiocera Klug, 1834. Equals Meromacrus Rondani, 1848. 



PlagiomimaBRAUERand Bergenstamm, Denkschr. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 58, 

 p. 384, 1891. 1 species. Type, Plagiomima disparata Brauer and Bergenstamm. 



Plagioneurus Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr, vol. 1, p. 43, 1857. 1 species. Type, 

 Plagioneurus univittatus Loew. 



Plagiotoma Loew, Monogr. Dipt. N. Amer., vol. 3, p. 252, 1873. 3 species. Type, 

 Tnjpcta obliqua Say, the second species, by present designation. Not Plagiotoma 

 Claparede and Lachmann, 1858. Equals Tomoplagia, new name. 



Plagiprospherysa Townsend, Trans. Ainer. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 113, 1892. 2 spe- 

 cies. Type, Prosphcrysa parvipalpis Wulp {2iS vallda, new species), the first species, 

 by original designation. 



Planes Rondani, Arch. Zool., vol. 3, p. 9, 1864. 1 species. Type, Xylota vagans 

 Wiedemann. Equals Syritta St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828. 



Planetolestes Arribalzaga, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argentina, vol. 8, p. 145, 1879.* 1 spe- 

 cies. Type, Lapliria coarctata Perty. Equals Blepharepium Rondani, 1848. 



Platophryma Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. for 1896, p. 426, 1896. 1 species. 

 Type, Plaloplinima nigra Williston. 



Platycheirus St. Fargeau and Serville, Encycl. Metli., vol. 10, pt. 2, -p. 513, 

 1828. 6 species. Type, St/rphus scutatus IMkigen, the first species, by designation of 

 Westwood, Intr., vol. 2, Synops., 1840, p. 137, 



