Genus MELANOPHRYS Will. 
Melanophrys Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIII, p. 305; November, 1886. 
Atropharista Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIX, p. 92; April, 1892. 
Mr. Townsend has already acknowledged this synonymy.! Our 
species are black, the arista and usually the palpi and calypteres yel- 
low, bases of wings strongly tinged with yellow; three postsutural and 
three sternopleural macrochietie : 
Second abdominal segment bearing a marginal pair of macrochietie, 
the third segment bearing a marginal row of from six to eight; 
length, 14 mm. Los Angeles County, Cal. (Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc., Vol. XIII, p. 306; November, 1886.)..-... Hlavipennis Will. 
Second segment destitute of a marginal pair of macrochietie, the 
third usually bearing a dorsal pair and a single lateral one each 
side; length, 12 to 14 mm. Grimsby, Canada; Franconia and 
White Mountains, New Hampshire; northern Illinois, and Colo- 
rado. (Insecta Saundersiana, Vol. I, p. 277; 1856: Tachina. 
Atropharista jurinoides Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe., Vol. 
XIX, p. 92; Aprb, 1892. Melanophrys flavipennis Will., Brauer 
and; Bbercenstammiwm (ith)... 2 6 os hes os nee oe os insolita Walk. 
Genus APHRIA Desv. 
Aphria Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, p. 89; 1830. 
Olivieria Meigen, Systematische Besch. Eur. Zweif. Insekten, Vol. VII, p. 266; 1858. 
(Non Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myod., p. 228; 1830.) 
Rhynchosia Macquart, Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 87; 1848. 
Macquart (loc. cit.) proposed the name Rhynchosia for the genus to 
which Meigen had given the name of Olivieria, owing to the fact that 
Desvoidy had previously used the latter name for an entirely different 
genus. The synonymy of Rhynchosia and Aphria was first pointed 
out by Rondani,? and is repeated by Schiner® and also by Brauer and 
Bergenstamm.! Our single species is black, the frontal vitta, the first 
two joints of the antennie usually, the palpi, and sides of abdomen 
largely, yellowish; male destitute of orbital bristles; three postsutural 
and three sternopleural macrochetie; length, 6 to 10 mm. Toronto, 
Canada; Massachusetts; Atco, N.J.; Georgia; northern [linois; Colo- 
rado; Washington, and southern California. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe., 
Vol. XVIII, p. 361; December, 1891. Aphria sp., Brauer and Bergen. 
SMES OMIM UNC sett hehe ha te Wes Pek aaa dice. sje Sale 2a ocypterata Town. 
'Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XXII, p. 72; March, 1895. 
2 Dipterologiie Italics Prodromus, Vol. 1, p. 73; 1856. 
3 Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 4382; 1862. 
4Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 237; 1893. 
