NO. 1719. TYPE-SPECIES OF AMERICAN DIPTERA—COQUILLETT. 593 



Pneumaculex Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 45, 1905. 1 species. 

 Type, Culc.r signifer Coquillett. 



Pocota St. Fargeau and Serville, Encycl. Meth., vol. 10, pt. 2, p. 518, 1828. 

 1 species. Type, Musca apiformis Schrank (as Milesia apicata Meigen'^ . Syn., Dasy- 

 myia Egger, 1858; Hadromyia Williston, 1882.« 



Pacil anthrax OsTE's Sacken, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Dipt., vol. 1, p. 119, 1886. 7 spe- 

 cies. Type, Anthrax alcyon Say, the first species, by present designation. P^quals 

 Villa LioY, 1864. 



Pa'cilognathiis J JEyi'NiCKE, Neue Exot. Dipt., p. 42, 1867. 1 species. Type, I'axiJo- 

 gnatJiKS thlipsomyzoides J.ennicke. Equals Phthiria Meigen, 1803. 



Pogonomyia EoNDANi, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., vol. 2, p. 336, 1870. 1 species. Type, 

 Pogonomyki alpicola Rondani. 



Pogonosoma Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 160, 1856. 1 species. Type, 

 Asilus maroccanus Fabricius. 



Pol idea Macquart, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1848, p. 92, 1848. 2 species. Type, 

 Tachina xnea Meigen, the first species, by present designation. Equals Lydina 

 Desvoidy, 1830. 



Polionoma Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 107, 1856. No species. In Atti 

 Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., vol. 11, 1868, p. 36, he placed it as a synonym of Sapromyza 

 Fallen, 1810. Type, Saproviyza obsoleta Fallen. Equals Sapromyza Fallen, 1810. 



Polionota WuLP, Biol. Centr.-Amer., vol. 2, p. 409, 1899. 2 species. Type, Acrotoxa 

 mucida Giglio-Tos, the first species, by original designation. 



Po^/op/irys TowNSEND, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 51, p. 90, 1908. 1 species (as 2). 

 Type, Gaediopsis mexicana Brauer and Bergenstamm. Equals Gsediopsis Brauer 

 and Bergenstamm, 1891. 



Po//8/om?/irt TowNSEND, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 51, p. 132, 1908. 1 species (as 6). 

 Type, Thereva phmiipes Fabricius. Equals Trichiopoda Latreille, 1829. 



PoUenia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 412, 1830. 5 species (as 16). Type, Musca 

 rudis Fabricius, the fourth species, by orignal designation. Syn., Nitellia Desvoidy, 

 1830 ; Cephysa Desvoidy, 1863 ; Orizia Desvoidy, 1863. 



Polyangaeus Doane, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, p. 196, 1900. 1 species. Type, 

 Polyangivus maculatus Doane. 



Polydonia Macquart, Dipt. Exot., Suppl. 4, p. 144, 1850. 1 species. Type, Merodon 

 curripes Wiedemann (as 6/co/or, newspecies). Not Polydonia Fischer, 1807. Equals 

 Polydontomyia Williston, 1896. 



Polydontomyia Williston, Man. N. Amer. Dipt., p. 89, 1896. Change of name for 

 Polydonia Macquart, 1850, not of Fischer, 1807. Type, Merodon CT(n'(j[)es Wiedemann. 

 Syn., Polydonia Macquart, 1850, preoccupied ; Triodonta Williston, 1885, preoc- 

 cupied. 



Polydromya Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1857, p. 557, 1857. No species. The 

 characters assigned this genus were evidently taken from Meigen's imperfect figure 

 of Tddiydromia priiratoria Fallen (Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 3, pi. 23, fig. 13). 

 Type, Tachydroinia pnvcatoriaFAhi.B'N. Equals Chelifera Macquart, 1823. 



Polygaster WuLP, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Dipt., vol. 2, p. 139, 1890. 1 species. Type, 

 Polygaster egregia Wulp. 



Polylepta Winnertz, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 13, p. 745, 1863. 2 species. 

 Type, Polylepta undulata Winnertz, the first species, by designation of Johannsen, 

 Gen. Ins., Dipt., Mycet, 1909, p. 43. 



Polymeda Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch. , p. 14, 1800. * No species. Erioptera Meigen, 

 1803, is a change of name. Type, Erioptera lutea Meigen. Syn., Erioptera Meigen, 



a Podoctria MEIGEN, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 2, p. 279, 1820. 5 species. Type, Dasypogon vitri- 

 pennis Meigen, the first species, by present designation. Syn., Isopogon LOEW, 1847. European. 



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