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a synonym of vmiimaria Giien., for the reason that I saw in 

 Guenee's collection a specimen with a type label upon it in 

 Guenee's handwwriting. I am unable to find any description 

 of the species by Guenee, and unless it was described, the name 

 ■does not hold. It is very remarkable how many type labels have 

 been put on specimens which have never been described, or have 

 been described under other names. Certainly, of American spe- 

 cies, when I was at the British Museum in 1894, there were not 

 less than I should say 40 to 50 species thus labelled. 



(To be continued.) 



Goniops and other Synonyms. 

 By J. M. Aldrich. 



I am greatly obliged to Mr. James S. Hine for pointing out 

 the identity of my Goniops hippoboscoides with Pan^onia cliryso- 

 coma O. vS. I see on comparison that there is no doubt of the 

 synonymy. Osten Sacken refers to the species as being rather 

 different from the rest of those included in Pangonia^ and I 

 consider the genus Goniops a good one. The species will there- 

 fore be known as Goniops chrysocoma O. S. 



I must confess to a feeling of sadness that this first-born of 

 my entomological activity should be so early cut down. I have 

 frequently consoled myself, when other work proved unsatis- 

 factory, by reflecting on the brilliant discovery that I brought 

 forward in that first paper ! 



In the few papers that I have published on the Dolichopo- 

 didse, I have made several synonyms that I subsequently dis- 

 covered for myself ; these I believe should be recorded for the 

 benefit of other workers in Diptera. 



1. Aptorthns Aldrich, Kans. Univ. Quart., ii, 48, 1893. 



This I recently found is identical with Mesorhaga Schiner, 

 Novara, 217, 1868, described from South America. The 

 species I described are all valid. 



2. Dactylomyia Aldrich, 1. c, 151. 



The type, graci/ipes, had been previously described by Loew 

 as Sancropus superbie?is. Later writers have rejected the genus 

 Sancropiis, placing the species under Neurigona. Since I have 



