NO. 1719. TYPE-SPECIES OF AMERICAN DIPTERA—COQUILLETT. 511 



Asemosyrphus Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France for 1882, p. 128, 1882. 2 species (as 

 4). Type, Helophilus mexicanus Macquart (ecjuals the first 3 species), by present 

 designation. 



Asilus LiNN.EUs, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 605, 1758. 12 species. Type, Asilus 

 crabnmiformis Linn^us, the third species, by designation of Latreille, Consid. 

 General., 1810, p. 443. 



Asindulum Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 14, p. 290, 1805. 1 species. 

 Type, Af<indiilumnigrum IjATREi-LiaE. Syn., ilfaerorr/rync/ia Winnertz, 1846; AdeUnia 

 Costa, 1857; Anilemon Loenv, 1871. 



Asphondylia Loew, Dipt. Beitr., vol. 4, pp. 20, 21, 1850. 1 species. Type, Ceci- 

 dornyia sarothamnl Loew. Syn., Phyllophaga Ront>ani, 1856. 



Aspidoptera Coquillett, Can. Ent., vol. 31, p. 334, 1899. 1 species. Type, Aspi- 

 doptera busckii Coquillett. Syn., Lepopteryx Speiser, 1900. 



Aspilia RoNOANi, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., vol. 9, p. 3, 1866. 6 species. Type, 

 Anthomyia aUotaUa Meigen, the sixth species, by original designation. Equals 

 Mydaea Desvoidy, 1830. 



Aspilota Loew, Monogr. Dipt. N. Amer., vol. 3, p. 286, 1873. 2 species. Type, Try- 

 peta alba Loew, the first species, by present designation. Not Aspilota Foerster, 

 1862. Equals Neaspilota Osten Sacken, 1878. 



Aspistes Meigkn, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 319, 1818. 1 species. Type 

 Aspistes beroUnensis Meiget<i. Syn., ArOiria 1\.ib.by, 1837. 



Asteia Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 6, p. 88, 1830. 2 species. Type, 

 Asleia aincena Meigen, the first species, by designation of Westwood, Intr., vol. 2, 

 Synops., 1840, p. 152. 



Asthenia Westwood, Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, Ins., pi. 94, 1842. 1 species. 

 Type, Asthenia fasciata Westwood. Not Asthenia Hcbner, 1816. Equals Blephari- 

 cera Macquart, 1843. 



Astoma Lioy, Atti Inst. Veneto, ser. 3, vol. 9, p. 762, 1864. 1 species. Type, 

 Nemotelus niger De Geer. Equals Omphrale Meigen, 1800. 



Astrophanes Osten Sacken, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Dipt., vol. 1, p. 106, 1886. 1 species. 

 Type, Astrophanes adonis Osten Sacken. 



Asynapta Loew, Dipt. Beitr., vol. 4, pp. 20, 21, 1850. 5 species. Type, Cecidomyia 

 longtcollis Loew, the first species, by present designation. 



Asyndetus Loew, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 13, p. 35, 1869. 2 species. Type, 

 Asyndetus ammophilus Loew, the first species, by present designation. 



Atacta ScHiNER, Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 2, Dipt., p. 328, 1868. 1 species. Type, 

 Atacta brasiliensis Schiner. 



Atalanta Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch., p. 31, 1800.* No species. CUnocera 

 Meigen, 1803, is a change of name. Type, CUnocera nigra M.eige's. Syn., CUnocera 

 Meigen, 1803; Paramesia Macquart, 1835. 



Atarba Osten Sacken, Monogr. Dipt. N. Amer., vol. 4, p. 127, 1869. 1 species. 

 Type, Atarba picticornis Osten Sacken. 



Atelenevra Macquart, Rec. Soc. Sci. Lille for 1834, p. 356, 1834. 1 species. Type, 

 Pipuncidus holosericeus Meigen. Equals Chalarus Walker, 1834. 



Atelestus Walker, Ent. Mag., vol. 4, p. 229, 1837. 1 species. Type, Empis puli- 

 caria Fallen (as syluicola, new species). Syn., Platycnema Zetterstedt, 1838. 



Ateloglossa Coquillett, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 219, 1899. 1 species. 

 Type, Ateloglossa cinerea Coquillett. 



Atemnocera Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France for 1882, p. 114, 1882. 1 species. Type, 

 Volucella scutellnta Macquart. Equals Volucella Geoffroy, 1762. 



Ateria Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol, 1, p. 809, 1863. 1 species. Type, Ateria 

 niiida Desvoidy. Equals Wagneria Desvoidy, 1830. 



Atherix Meigen, Illiger's Mag., vol. 2, p. 271, 1803. 2 species. Type, Sylvicolse 

 melancholia Harris (as Rhagio diadema Fabricius), the first species, by designation of 



