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^ Pneumaculex Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 45, 1905. 1 species. 



Type, Culex signifer Coquillett. 

 / Pocota St. Fargeau and Serville, Encycl. Meth., vol. 10, pt. 2, p. 518, 1828. 

 1 species. Type, Musca apiformis Schrank (as Milesia apicata MeigenI . Syn., Dasy- 

 myia Egger, 1858; Hadromyia Williston, 1882. a 



Pcecilanthrax Osten Sacken, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Dipt., vol. 1, p. 119, 1886. 7 spe- 

 cies. Type, Anthrax alcyon Say, the first species, by present designation. Equals 

 y Villa Lioy, 1864. 



Pcecilognathus Jjsnnicke, Neue Exot. Dipt., p. 42, 1867. 1 species. Type, Pcecilo- 

 gnathus thlipsomyzoides .Lennicke. Equals Phthiria Meigen, 1803. 



omyia Rondani, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., vol.. 2, p. 336, 1870. 1 species. Type, 

 'ogonomyia dlpicola Rondani. 



Pogonosoma Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 160, 1856. 1 species. Type, 

 Asilus maroccanus Fabricius. 

 */ Polidea Macquart, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1848, p. 92, 1848. 2 species. Type, 

 Tachina senea Meigen, the first species, by present designation. Equals Lydina 

 Desvoidy, 1830. 

 ' Polionoma Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prodr., vol. 1, p. 107, 1856. No species. In Atti 

 Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., vol. 11, 1868, p. 36, he placed it as a synonym of Sapromyza 

 Fallen, 1810. Type, Sapromyza obsoleta Fallen. Equals Sapromyza Fallen, 1810. 

 ¥ Polionota Wulp, Biol. Centr.-Amer., vol. 2, p. 409, 1899. 2 species. Type, Acrotoxa 

 mucida Giglio-Tos, the first species, by original designation. 



Poliophrys Townsend, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 51, p. 90, 1908. 1 species (as 2). 

 Type, Gaediopsis mexicana Brauer and Bergenstamm. Equals Gsediopsis Brauer 

 1 and Bergenstamm, 1891. 



Polistomyia Townsend, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 51, p. 132, 1908. 1 species (as 6). 

 Type, Thereva plwmipes Fabricius. Equals Trichiopoda Latreille, 1829. 



Pollenia Desvoidy, Essai Myod., p. 412, 1830. 5 species (as 16). Type, Musca 

 nulls Fa'bricius, the fourth species, by orignal designation. Syn., Nitellia Desvoidy, 

 1830 ; Cephysa Desvoidy, 1863 ; Orizia Desvoidy, 1863. 



Polyangseus Doane, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, p. 196, 1900. 1 species. Type, 

 Polyangseus maculatus Doane. 

 ■^ Polydonta Macquart, Dipt. Exot., Suppl. 4, p. 144, 1850. 1 species. Type, Merodon 

 curvipes Wiedemann ( as bicolor, new species). Not Polydonta Fischer, 1807. Equals 

 I Polydontomyia Williston, 1896. 



Polydontomyia Williston, Man. N. Amer. Dipt., p. 89, 1896. Change of name for 

 Polydonta Macquart, 1850, not of Fischer, 1807. Type, Merodon curvipes Wiedemann. 

 Syn., Polydonta Macquart, 1850, preoccupied ; Triodonta Williston, 1885, preoc- 

 cupied. 

 ^ Polydromya Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France for 1857, p. 557, 1857. No species. The 

 characters assigned this genus were evidently taken from Meigen' s imperfect figure 

 of Tachydromia prsecatoria Fallen (Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 3, pi. 23, fig. 13). 

 .Type, Tachydromia prsecatoria Fallen. Equals Chelifera Macquart, 1823. 



Polygaster Wulp, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Dipt., vol. 2, p. 139, 1890. 1 species. Type, 

 / Polygaster egregia Wulp. 



Polylepta Winnertz, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 13, p. 745, 1863. 2 species. 

 Type, Polylepta undulata Winnertz, the first species, by designation of Johannsen, 

 Gen. Ins., Dipt., Mycet., 1909, p. 43. 



Polymeda Meigen, Nouv. Class. Mouch. , p. 14, 1800. * No species. Erioptera Meigen, 

 1803, is a change of name. Type, Erioptera lutea Meigen. Syn., Erioptera Meigen, 



a Podoctria Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 2, p. 279, 1820. 5 species. Type, Dasypogon vitri- 

 pennis Meigen, the first species, by present designation. Syn., Isopogon Loew, 1847. European. 



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