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Tlie Walker types of the following species described from 

 Tuiknown localities are not to be found in tlie Brit. Mus. 

 Coll., viz. Dasypogon ap/iidmis, inserens, and occidens, and 

 might well be deleted from the list of species. 



Selidopogon, Bezzi. 

 Zeitschr. Hymen, u. Dipt. ii. p. 192 (1902). 



Fore tibi.x with a curved spine. 



Selidopoifon diadema, Fabr.^ a European species extending 

 to Asia JNIinor, has a number of synonyms, among others 

 Dasypogon pundatus, Fabr., which IMacquart records as from 

 New Holland, stating that a female he had seen was similar 

 to the European specimens : see Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iii. )). 180, 

 (1848). I have not seen any specimens of this species from 

 Australia. 



The genus extends through Europe, N. Africa, Asia Minor, 

 and the American continent. 



Stichopogon, Loew. 



Lmn. Ent.ii. p. 499(1847). 



Stichopogon congressus, Walker. 



Proc. Liun. Soc. London, v. p. 302 (1801) ILasypogoii]; Kertesz, Cat. 



Dipt. p. 127 [Dasypoyonj (1909); Meijere, Nova Guinea, v. Zool, 



p. 75 (1906). 

 Stichopoyon albicapUhts, v. d. VVuIp, Tyd, v. Entom. (2) vii. (xv.) 



p. 147 (1872) ; Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 83 (1909). From New 



Guinea. 

 Stkhojwyon scalan's, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Entom. France, (5) viii. p. 440 



(1878). From Fiji Island?. 



Type (c?) from Tidore, Celebes, and a ? from Sula 

 Island. 



See v. d. Wulp for description of tliis species. 



DiocTRiA, Meigen. 



Illiger's Magaz. f. Ins. ii. p. 270 (1803). 



Methylla, Hansen, Fulnea oris Dipt. pp. 145 et 198 (1883). 



The type of D. claviventris, Walker, from New Guinea, 

 and D. tasmanica, Walker, from Tasmania, are both species 

 of Brac/iyrr/topola, the latter being a synonym of B. maculi- 

 n(iV)-is, Macq. 



1). conop}> aides, F., from Australia, was unknown to Wiede- 

 mann and Schiner. From the description it is impossible 

 to ascertain what genus it belongs to ; it would seem 

 therefore best to expunge the name from list. 



V. horsleyi, Walker, from unknown locality, is not a 



