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Goniops and other Synonyms. 



By J. M. Aldrich. 



I am greatly obliged to Mr. James S. Hine for pointing out 

 the identity of my Goniops hippoboscoides with Pangonia cJuyso- 

 coma O. S. I see on comparison that there is no doubt of the 

 synonymy. Osten Sacken refers to the species as being rather 

 different from the rest of those inchided in Pangonia, and I 

 consider the genus Go7iiops a good one. The species will there- 

 fore be known as Goniops chrysocoma O. vS. 



I must confess to a feeling of sadness that this first-born of 

 vsxy entomological activity should be so early cut down. I have 

 frequently consoled myself, when other work proved unsatis- 

 factory, by reflecting on the brilliant discovery that I brought 

 forward in that first paper ! 



In the few papers that I ha\'e published on the Dolichopo- 

 didae, I have made several synonyms that I subsequently dis- 

 covered for myself ; these I believe should be recorded for the 

 benefit of other workers in Diptera. 



1. Aptorthus Aldrich, Kans. Univ. Quart., ii, 48, 1893. 



This I recently found is identical with Mesorhaga Schiner, 

 Novara, 217, 1868, described from South America. The 

 .species I described are all valid. 



2. Dactylomyia Aldrich, 1. c, 151. 



The type, gracilipes, had been previously described by Loew 

 as Saucropus superbiens. Later writers have rejected the genus 

 Saucropus, placing the species under Neurigona. Since I have 

 become acquainted with several of the long-legged .species of 

 this genus, I do not think that there is any justification for 

 Dactylomyia. 



The synonymy in this case was made out independently by 

 Professor Wheeler, and has been referred to by him in his 

 recent exten.sive paper on the Dolichopodidae (Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., 1899). 



3. Metapelastoneurus Aldrich, 1. c, 152. 



This genus was based on the peculiar development of the 

 hypopygium in a species of Pelastoneunis. Since the time of 

 establishing it, I have often doubted the advi.sability of using 



