NO. 1719. TYPE-SPECIES OF AMERICAN DIPTERA—COQUILLETT. 591 



Picconia Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 38, 1863. 1 species. Type, Ta- 

 china nigripes Fallen (as bipariita, new species^"). Equals Lydella Desvoidy^ 1830. 



Pictmia Desvoidy, Dipt. Env. Paris, Myop., p. 15, 1853.* 1 species. Type, Pic- 

 tiniafulvijialpis'DEsvoiTiY. Equals Stomoxoides Sch^effer, 1766. 



Pierrelia Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 422, 1863. 14 supposed species. 

 Type, Sarcopliaga nigriventris Meicjen, equaling supposed species 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 

 12, by present designation. Equals Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826. 



Pilaria Sintensis, Sitzb. Nat.-Ges. Dorpat, vol. 8, p. 398, 1889. 2 species. Type, 

 IJmnohia pilicomis Zetterstedt, the second species, by present designation. Equals 

 Phylidorea Bigot, 1854. 



Piophila Fallen, Spec. Ent. Meth. Exh., p. 20, 1810. 1 species. Type, Musca 

 casei Linn.eus. Syn., Tyrophaga Kirby, 1817; Stearibia Lioy, 1864. 



Pipiza Fallen, Spec. Ent. Meth. Exh., p. 11, 1810. No species. In his Syrphici 

 Svecifi?, 1817, pp. 58 to 61, 8 species. Type, Musca noctiluca Linnaeus, the second 

 species, by designation of Curtis, Brit. Ent., 1837, p. 669. Syn., Pliahingus Meksex, 

 1822; Heringia Rondani, 1856; Pipizella Rondani, 1856. 



Pipizelhi. Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 54, 1856. 1 species. Type, Mulio 

 virens Fabricius. Equals Pipiza Fallen, 1810. 



Pipunculus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 3, p. 463, 1802. 1 species. 

 Type, Pipunculus campestris Latreille. Equals Dorilas Meigen, 1800. 



Pissemya Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1851, p. 318, 1851. 1 species. 

 Type, Gonia fasciata Wiedemann (as aira Meigen). Equals Spallanzania Desvoidy, 

 1830. 



Pithogaster Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 1, p. 33, 1857. 1 species. Type, 

 Pilhogaster inflatus Loew. Equals Opsebius Costa, 1856. 



Pityocera GiGLio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino, vol. 11, No. 224, p. 3, 1896. 

 1 species. Type, Pityocera fesUe Giglio-Tos. 



Plagia Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 7, p. 201, 1838. 6 species. Type, 

 Tachhia ruralis Fallen (as verticalis Meigen), the second species, by designation of 

 Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, 1856, p. 69. Equals Voria Desvoidy, 1830. 

 {Plagia of authors equals Siphoplagia Townsend.) 



Plagiocera. Macquart, Dipt. Exot., vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 59, 1842. 2 species. Type, 

 M'desia acuta Fabricius (as cruciger Wiedemann), the first species, by present desig- 

 nation. Not Plagiocera Klug, 1834. p]quals Meromacrus Rondani, 1848. 



PlagiomimaBRAUERandBERGENSTAMM, Denkschr. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 58, 

 p. 384, 1891. 1 species. Type, Plagiomima dlspanita Brauer and Bergenstamm. 



Plagioneurus Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr, vol. 1, p. 43, 1857. 1 species. Type, 

 Plagioneurus univittatus Loew. 



Plagiotoma LiOEW, Monogr. Dipt. N. Amer., vol. 3, p. 252, 1873. 3 species. Type, 

 Trypeta obligua Say, the second species, by present designation. Not Plagiotoma 

 Claparede and Lachmann, 1858. Equals Tomoplagia, new name. 



Plagiprospherysa Townsend, Trans. Anier. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 113, 1892. 2 spe- 

 cies. Type, Prospherysa panipalpis Wulp (as valida, new species), the first species, 

 by original designation. 



Planes Rondani, Arch. Zool., vol. 3, j). 9, 1864. 1 species. Type, Xylota raga^is 

 Wiedemann. Equals Syritta St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828. 



Planetolestes Arribalzaga, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argentina, vol. 8, p. 145, 1879.* 1 spe- 

 cies. Type, Laphria coarctata Perty. Ecjuals Blepharepium Rondani, 1848. 



Platophryma Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. for 1896, p. 426, 1896. 1 species. 

 Type, Platophryma nigra Williston. 



Platycheirus St. Fargeau and Serville, Encycl. JNleth., vol. 10, pt. 2, p. 513, 

 1828. 6 species. Type, Syrphus scutatus Meigen, the first species, by designation of 

 Westwood, Intr., vol. 2, Synops., 1840, p. 137. 



