Synonymica ab out Tipulidae. 263 



3. Acyphona maculata Meig. 



Erioptera maculata Meig., Classif. p. 51 (1804); Syst. Beschr. 

 I, p. 109i) 1818); Trichosticha maculata Schiri., Fauna 

 (1864); Acyphona maculata O.S., Studies, II (Berl. E. Z. 

 1887, p. 193). 

 Limnobia ocellaris Macq. (non Linne), Dipt. du Nord, I, 

 p. 103 (1824). [O.S.] 

 Li u list of synonymies like this, Fabricius's successive references 

 to Tip. ocellaris Lin. must be entirely ignored (just as those to Tip. 

 anriulata Lin. in my preceding päragraph No. 3), as they are merely 

 copied from prcvious publications and represent no scientific concept 

 whatever. For completeness's sake however I shall give a separate 

 notice of them. The Tip. ocellaris Lin. appears in the following 

 works of Fabricius: 



1. Syst, Ent. 751, 19 (1775) with Linne's short diagnosis, and 

 with references to Fn. Sc. 1751 and Syst. Nat. Habitat: Europa. 



2. Sp. Ins. II, p. 404, 22 (1781), with the same diagnosis and 

 references. The habitat this time is: in Europa boreali haud in- 

 frequens. 



3. Mantissa II, p. 323, 24 (1787); diagnosis without any reference 

 or locality. 



4. Ent. Syst. IV, 240,30 (1794). Diagnosis and the same refe- 

 rences as before: Habitat: Europa. 



5. Syst. Antl. p. 29 (1805). Here Fabricius has on the same 

 page, and in immediate succession, the pretended three european 

 Tipulae with ocellate spots on the wings: 



No. 26. Tip. annulata Lin., about which he knew nothing (comp. 



my § 3); the ridiculous reference toReaumur (Ctenophora) 



is, of course, added. 

 No. 27. Tip. ocellaris Lin. about which he likewise knew nothing; 



the reference to Schrank is produced. 

 No. 28. Tip. pieta Fab., which he described without pereeiving 



that it is exactly the same species as the preceding one. 



l) M eigen erroneously places E. maculata among the species 

 without discal cell. He has overlooked the crossvein which closes 

 this cell. 



