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C. T. Brues.
Synonymical Notes on Phoridae.
Psyche 19(4):135-136, 1912.

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BruesÌÔSynonymica Notes on Phoridce
SYNONYMICAL NOTES ON PHORIDE.
BY CHARLES T. BRUES,
Bussey Institution, Harvard University.
The present brief note will serve to correct some errors of nomenclature which have recently crept into the literature relat- ing to this family of Diptera.
Conoprosopa Becker.
1909.
Bull. Mug. Hist. Nat. Paris, No. 3, pp. 113-120. 1910. Brues. PSYCHE, Vol. 17, p. 34 (Coryptilomyia). 1910. Becker. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 79, p. 30 (reprint of original description of Conoprosopa which is indicated again as a new genus). 1912. Enderlein. Stettiner Ent. Zeit. p. 51 (Metopotropis). The type came from "Southern Ethiopia," that of Coryplilo- myia from Natal, and that of Metopotropis from German South- west Africa.
There can be no doubt of the generic synonomy and the three species, Conoprosopa scutellata Becker, Coypti- lomyia armigera Bmes, and Metopotropis herero Enderlein are probably synonomous also.
Phalacrotophora Enderlein.
1912.
Stettiner Ent. Zeit., p. 21.
To the type species described (loc. cit.) by Enderlein should be added Aphiochaeta epeirae Brues (PSYCHE Vol. 9, p. 351 (1902)), originally described in Phora and since placed as an aberrant Aphiochceta differing from the other species of that genus by the absence of any median reclinate frontal bristles. Aphiochceta longifrons Brues (Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc. 1906, p. 100) belongs here also.
Aphiochaeta Brues.
1903. Trans. American Ent. Soc., Vol. 29, p. 337. Aphiochceta enderleini nom. nov. for A. minuta Enderlein (Stet- tiner Ent. Zeit. 1912, p. 36) which is a homonym of Aphiochceta



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minuta Aldrich (Canadian Ent. Vol. 24, p. 146, 1892 (Phora)), which is in turn a synonym of A. minor Zett. Aphiochceta ferruginosa nom. nov. for A. ferruginea Enderlein (Stettiner Ent. Zeit., March, 1912, p. 37) which is homonymous with A. ferruginea Brunetti (Indian Mus. Notes, p. 84, 1912) de- scribed one month previously but referred to under that name earlier without description.
Aphiochoeta umbripennis nom. nov. for A. fumipennis Enderlein (Stettiner Ent. Zeit., p. 37, l912), not A. fumipennis Brues (Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, p. 407, 1907).
Aphiochceta juli Brues. This- species was originally placed in Plastophora (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 201), but must be removed to Aphiochceta where it will find a place with A. xantippe Banks which it resembles closely. Both have a lengthened ovi- positor and thus differ markedly from the other members of this extensive genus, but it would seem unwise to add another generic name for this small group to the already large number now extant. Melaloncha Brues.
1903.
Trans. American Ent. Soc., Vol. 29, p. 374. I do not see how the genus Udamochiras Enderlein can be re- tained as distinct from Melaloncha, as the type U. colossia Ender- lein differs from M. pulchella only by the form of its antennae which are presumably rounded and not pointed, although their shape is not mentioned in the description.
Otherwise the two agree in
all characters that are of essential generic value. SPHEX OVERCOMING OBSTACLES.
Mr. S. A. Rohwer of the U. S. National Museum has written that the unidentified species of Sphex mentioned in the paper by C. H. Turner published in the last number of PSYCHE (p 100) is probably the common Chalybion coerul- eum (Linn.).
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