TWO NEW ETHIOPIAN LONCHAEIDAE. 249 



Concerning the name which must be used for the American species there is some 

 confusion. L. glaberrima was described in 1830 by Wiedemann from the West Indies 

 on a type without the antennae, as stated in the original description. The name was 

 subsequently referred to a species from Florida, after Coquillett's determination, 

 by Johnson (Proc. Ac. N. S. Philadelphia, 1895, p. 338, and Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. 

 1913, xxxii, p. 80). In 1905 the name made its appearance in Brazilian literature 

 (still based on the determination of Coquillett) in works of Hempel,* and of R. von 

 Iheringf ; and in 1910 I accepted it in my paper on the Brazilian species of 

 Lonchaea. Prof. Melander in his recent synopsis of the genus has also conserved 

 the name on hypothetical characters. 



In 1912 R. von Iheringf used for the species the name of L. aenea, Wied., which 

 was accepted also by Prof. Tavares (Broteria, Zool., xiii, 1915, p. 52). But as 

 Wiedemann never described a species of this name, it was evidently proposed as 

 new by Dr. Lutz, according to the indication of R. von Ihering himself (I.e., p. 13). 



Fig. 4. Lateral view of head of Lonchaea 

 pendula, Bezzi, nom. nov., $. 



However, this latter name also cannot be accepted, because there is already a 

 L. aenea, Meigen 1926, from Europe ; a new name is therefore necessary, and I 

 propose to call the important neotropical species L. pendula, in allusion to its very 

 long antennae. The synonymy of the species is as follows : — 

 Lonchaea pendula, nom. nov. (fig. 4). 



L. glaberrima, (not of Wiedemann), Hempel, 1905 and 1906 ; R. von Ihering, 

 1905 ; Bezzi, 1910 (not 1913). 



L. aenea (not of Meigen), Lutz apud R. von Ihering, 1912 ; Tavares, 1915. 



The species seems to be widely spread in South America and Mexico, as I have 

 it from Brazil, Campinas (Hempel) and S. Paulo (Barbiellini) ; from British Guiana, 

 Bartica (Rolle) ; from Peru, Piura (Tyler Toivnsend) ;. from Mexico, Cordoba, 

 Yalapa, Dona Maria (Chiapas), Vera Cruz, Oaxaca (Crawford). 



* Gontribuicao a Biologia do Ceratitis capitata, Wied., Bol. da Agric, Sao Paulo, 1905, 

 p. 352-354 (vide p. 353). 



O hicho dos fruetos e suas parasitas, I.e., 1906, p. 206-214 (vide p. 353). 



t -4s moseas dasfructas e sua destruicao. Sao Paulo, 1905, 21 pp., 6 figs, (vide -p. 4, fig. 3). 



% As moseas dasfructas e sua destruieao. 2nd Edicjao, 48 pp., 1 pi., 10 figs, (vide pi. 1-, 

 fig. 3, and p. 13). 



