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One specimen. ‘This species is closely allied to S. /upudina of Eu- 
rope and North America, but will be at once distinguished by the 
short plumose arista. 
Stegana. 
Specimens of two or three species of this genus, from Brazil, evi- 
dently indicate close colorational resemblances as characteristic of 
the genus. Among them I believe I recognize in an imperfect speci- 
men, 5S. zarsadis Will., which may be identical with S. flavipes Wied. 
Another species has the front much depressed and broad, the face 
and cheeks yellowand the palpi slender, but otherwise agrees with 
S. hora Will. 
Drosophila opaca Will. Dipt. St. Vincent, 411. 
Specimens from Brazil agree well with the types. 
In a recent number of the Wiener Ent. Zeitung, Professor Mik, 
in calling attention to the preoccupation of the name Sackentella 
mihi, states that Osten Sacken had shown its identity with Curwpira 
Miller. I was quite familiar with Osten .Sacken’s paper when I 
proposed the name, and I think if Professor Mik will again ex- 
amine the article, he will see that Osten Sacken did not consider 
the genera identical. That .S. rw/escens was included in the forms 
described by Miiller as C. dorrentium is probably true, as Osten 
Sacken shows, but that C. ¢orrentium and S. rufescens are identical, 
can not be possible. ‘If my supposition be correct, S. rufescens 
would be the first species described in the mature state among the 
group of larve studied by Dr. F. Miller. The question of the 
other forms must remain open until we likewise obtain mature 
specimens of them.” 
Notwithstanding Mliiller’s deserved repute as a naturalist, no 
dipterologist can accept the conclusions that C, ¢orrentium had 
dimorphic females—one mellisugous and holoptic, the other san- 
guisugous and dichoptic. Certainly no such extraordinary conclu- 
sion can be accepted until such females have actually been bred. 
Prof. Mik will see by turning to Dr. Osten Sacken’s paper (p. 162) 
the generic definition he has given for Sowa and Curupira. 
