no. 1719. TYPE-SPECIES OF AMERICAN DIPTERA—COQUILLETT. 567 



Melanogaster .Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol.2, p. 166, 1857. 4 species. Type, 



Melanogaster nubilis Rondani, the first species, by present designation. Equals 



Chrysogaster Meigen, 1800. 

 *s Melanophora Meigen, Illiger's Mag., vol. 2, p. 279, 1803. 1 species. Type, Musca 



roralis Linnaeus (as grossificationis Fabricius). Syn., Paykullia Desvoidy, 1830; Illi- 



geria Desvoidy, 1830. 

 «-' Melanophrys Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 305, 1886. 1 species. 



Type, Tachina insolita Walker (as flavipennis, new species). Syn., Atropharista Town- 

 send, 1892. 

 ^ Melanostoma Schiner, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 4, p. 213, 1860. 1 species. 



Type, Musca mellina Linnaeus. 

 «-" Melieria Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 715, 1830. 5 species. Type, Musca crassipen- 



nis Fabricius (as gangrenosa Desvoidy), the first species, by designation of Rondani, 



Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, 1856, p. 108. 

 «•- Melina Desvoidy, Essai. Myod., p. 695, 1830. 1 species. Type, Melina riparia 



Desvoidy. Equals Chetocera Desvoidy, 1830. 

 " Melinda Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 439, 1830. 2 species (as 7). Type, Musca 



cognata Meigen (equals six of the supposed species), by present designation. Equals 



Onesia Desvoidy, 1830. 

 •^ Melithreptus Loew, Isis von Oken for 1840, p. 577, 1840. Change of name for 



Sphserophoria St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828, because of nearly identical older 



names. Type, Musca scripla Linnaeus. Equals Sphaerophoria St. Fargeau and 



Serville, 1828. 

 ^ Melitrophus Walker, Ins. Britt., Dipt., vol. 3, p. xxi, 1856. Change of name for 



Melithreptus Loew, 1840, preoccupied by a genus of birds. Type, Musca scripta LiN r 



N.EUS. Equals Sphaerophoria St. Fargeau and Serville, 1828. 

 "- Melophagus Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 3, p. 466, 1802. 1 species. 



Type, Hippobosca ovina Linnaeus. Syn., Melophila Nitzsch, 1818. 

 ^ Melophila Nitzsch, Germ. Mag. Ent., vol. 3, p. 311, 1818. 1 species. Type, Hippo- 

 bosca ovina Linnaeus. Equals Melophagus Latreille, 1802. 

 ^" Melpia Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt., p. 8, 1850. 9 species. Type, Pangonius fulvi- 



thorax Wiedemann, the third species, by present designation. Equals Pangonius 



Latreille, 1802. 

 ^ Mjhisina Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch., p. 19, 1800.* No species. Atractocera 



Meigen, 1803, is achangeof name. Type, Simuliumornatum Meigen. Syn., Simulium 



Latreille, 1802; Atractocera Meigen, 1803. 

 *^ Merapioidus Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France for 1879, p. 50, 1879. 1 species. Type, 



Merapioidus villosus Bigot. 

 *"^ Meriania Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 69, 1830. 2 species (as 3). Type, Musca 



puparum Fabricius (as silvatica, new species), the first species, by designation of 



Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. Dipt., vol. 1, p. 169, 1863. Syn., Platychira Rondani, 1856. 

 Mericia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 64, 1830. 1 species. Type, Mericia erigonea 



Desvoidy. Equals Ernestia Desvoidy, 1830. 

 -"' Merodina Macquart, Hist. Nat., Dipt., vol. 2, p. 378, 1835. 1 species. Type, 



Dacus podagrica Fabricius. Equals Richardia Desvoidy, 1830. 

 f Merod jm Meigen, Illiger's Mag., vol. 2, p. 274, 1803. 2 species. Type, Syrp hus 



clavipes Fabricius (as curvipes Fabricius), the second species, by designation of 



Westwood, Intr., vol. 2, Synops., 1840, p. 137. Equals Lampetia Meigen, 1800. 

 Meromacrus Rondani. Studi Ent., vol. 1, p. 70, 1848. 1 species. Type, Meroma- 



crus ghilianii Rondani. Syn., Plagiocera Macquart, 1842, , preoccupied; Pteroplila 



Loew, 1865. 



Meromyza Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 6, p. 163, 1830. 3 species. 



Type, Musca saltatrix Linnaeus, the third species, by designation of Westwood, 



Intr., vol. 2, Synops., 1840, p. 147. 



