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SYNONYMICAL NOTES ON PHORID^. 



By Charles T. Brues, 

 Bussey Institution, Harvard University. 



The present brief note will serve to correct some errors of 

 nomenclature which have recently crept into the literature relat- 

 ing to this family of Diptera. 



Conoprosopa Becker, 



1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, No. 3, pp. 113-120. 



1910. Brues. Psyche, Vol. 17, p. 34 (Coryptilomyia). 



1910. Becker. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 79, p. 30 (reprint of original 

 description of Conoprosopa which is indicated again as a new genus). 

 1912. Enderlein. Stettiner Ent. Zeit. p. 51 {Metopotropis). 



The type came from "Southern Ethiopia," that of Corypiilo- 

 myia from Natal, and that of Metopotropis from German South- 

 west Africa. There can be no doubt of the generic synonomy 

 and the three species, Conoprosopa scutellata Becker, Corypti- 

 lomyia armigera Brues, and Metopotropis herero Enderlein are 

 probably synonomous also. 



Phalacrotophora Enderlein. 

 1912. Stettiner Ent. Zeit., p. 21. 



To the type species described (loc. cit.) by Enderlein should be 

 added Aphiocho'ta epeiroe Brues (Psyche Vol. 9, p. 351 (190!2)), 

 originally described in Phora and since placed as an aberrant 

 Aphiochceta differing from the other species of that genus by the 

 absence of any median reclinate frontal bristles. Aphiocho'ta 

 longijrons Brues (Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc. 1906, p. 100) 

 belongs here also. 



Aphiochaeta Brues. 

 1903. Trans. American Ent. Soc, Vol. 29, p. 337. 



Aphiochoeta enderleini nom. nov. for A. minuia Enderlein (Stet- 

 tiner Ent. Zeit. 1912, p. 36) which is a homonym of Aphiocha-ta 



