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Genus MELANOPHRYS Will. 
Melanophrys Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XIII, p. 305; November, 1886. 
Atropharhla Townsenrt, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIX, p. 92; April, 1892. 
Mr. Tbwusend lias already acknowledged this synonymy. 1 Onr 
species are black, the arista and usually the palpi and calypteres yel- 
low, bases of wings strongly tinged with yellow; three postsutural and 
three sternopleural macrochsetae : 
Second abdominal segment bearing a marginal pair of macrochretre, 
the third segment bearing a marginal row of from six to eight; 
length, 14 mm. Los Angeles County, Cal. (Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc, Yol. XIII, p. 306; Xovember, 1886.) flavipennis Will. 
Second segment destitute of a marginal pair of macrochsetae, the 
third usually bearing a dorsal pair and a single lateral one each 
side; length, 12 to 14 mm. Grimsby, Canada; Franconia and 
White Mountains, Xew Hampshire; northern Illinois, and Colo- 
rado. (Insecta Saundersiana, Yol. I, p. 277; 1850: Tachina. 
Atroph arista jurinoides Townsend, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Yol. 
XIX, ]>. 92; April, 1802. MelanopJirys flavipennis Will., Brauer 
and Bergenstamm in litt.) insolita Walk. 
Genus APHRIA Desv. 
Aphria Desvoidy, Essai snr les Myortaires, p. 89; 1830. 
Olivier ia Meigen, Systematische Besch. Eur. Zweif. Insekten, Vol. A T II, p. 2<)t>; 1838. 
(Non Desvoidy, Essai sur lea Myod., p. 228; 1830.) 
Rhynchosia Macquart, Annales Soc. Ent. France, p. 87; 1818. 
Macquart (loc. cit.) proposed the name Rhynchosia for the genus to 
which Meigen had given the name of Olivieria, owing to the fact that 
Desvoidy had previously used the latter name for an entirely different 
genus. The synonymy of Rhynchosia and Aphria was first pointed 
out by Kondani, 2 and is repeated by Schiner :! and also by Brauer and 
Bergenstamm. 4 Our single species is black, the frontal vitta, the first 
two joints of the antenna' usually, the palpi, and sides of abdomen 
largely, yellowish ; male destitute of orbital bristles; three postsutural 
and three sternopleural inacrochaet»3 ; length, G to 10 mm. Toronto, 
Canada; Massachusetts ; Atco, 1ST. J. ; Georgia; northern Illinois; Colo- 
rado; Washington, and southern California. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 
Vol. XVIII, p. 361; December, 1891. Aphria sp., Brauer and Bergen 
stanim in litt.) ocypterata Town. 
•Trails. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XXII, p. 72; March, 1895. 
3 Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus, Vol. I. p. 73; 1856. 
3 Fauna Austriaca, Vol. I, p. 432 ; 1862. 
4 Zweif. Kais. Mus. Wien, VI, p. 237 ; 1893. 
