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are quite evidently synonyms of Dohrniphora Dahl. The swollen 

 costa of Crepidopachys is I am quite confident a female character 

 just as it is in Phora thoracica Meigen and in several species in 

 Aphiochceta (costalis v. Roser, epeiroe Brues, etc.), and though the 

 sex of the type is not given by Enderlein I am, I believe, correct in 

 accepting it as a female. In the male the costa will probably prove 

 to be normal or at least only slightly swollen. The bristling of the 

 legs is indicated only as " Mittelschiene wie bei Phora mit einer 

 Machrochseta nahe der Basis der Aussenseite." No further indi- 

 cation is given as to their bristling and this is given only in his 

 remarks on affinities, not in the description. I consider the genus 

 as synonymous with Dohrniphora Dahl. 



Pronomiophora I consider also as a synonym of Dohrniphora. 

 It agrees in every respect with the description of that, genus and 

 like nearly all the females in the genus the ,one here described, 

 rostrata Enderlein, has the long proboscis, one of the principal 

 characteristics of the genus. I cannot conceive how this position 

 has been created except through an inadequate knowledge of the 

 group and the literature on it. If we carry out this system of 



erecting genera for species 

 which possess only such trif- 

 ing deviations from the types 

 of existing genera as these 

 two, the ultimate outcome 

 will be that we will have 

 every species in a different 

 genus. 



Hypocerina gen. nov. 



Head of moderate size, frons 

 (fig. 1) broad and short with 2 rows 

 of four bristles, one vertical and 

 one preocellar, only one pair of pos- 

 tantennal reclinate bristles present; 

 anterior margin of frons produced 

 in center, laterally excised; ocelli 

 distinct, third antennal joint oval, 

 slightly pointed, arista apical, basal joints elongate; epistome produced, palpi of 

 moderate size, proboscis fleshy. Thorax and abdomen as in Aphiochceta. Wings 

 with neuration as in Puliciphom, the second thick vein unforked and the me 

 diastinal vein present; four distinct thin veins (fig. 2). Legs with isolated spines. 

 Type of genus: Hypocerina barberi, sp. nov. 



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Fig. 1. Hypocerina barberi, gen. et sp. nov. 

 1, front; 2, wing. 



