LIST OF MY ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS ETC. 
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(Berlin) par l’habile dipteriste II. Loew. Je dois confesser que la plupart de 
ses objections m’ont paru tellement fondees que, reconnaissant la mediocre va- 
leur de mes Essais, je me resigne a les abandonner a mi-chemin”. Whereupon 
Mr. Bigot proposes a new plan for the distribution of the Diptera, into two 
Tribes: Omalocerati and Anomalocerati etc. 
A further discussion between Bigot and G. II. Verrall, about questions of 
orthography and of mutual courtesy will be found in the Wien. Ent. Zeitschr. 
1889, p. 168, 265 and 293. In the latter notice, Bigot renews his former recan¬ 
tation of his “ Essai “Si Mr. Verrall avait daigne lire mes opuscules, etc. il 
y aurait vu, maintes fois rcpete, que mon ancien travail, intitule “Essai" etc. 
devait etre desormais, et dans son entier, considere comme nul et non avenu , 
declaration qui m’absout naturellement des fautes que j’ai pu y commettre”. 
1894 . 
138. On the Atavic Index-characters, with some Remarks on 
the classification of Diptera. 
Berl. Ent. Z. 1894, p. 69—76. 
139. Synonymica about Tipulidae. 
Berl. Ent. Z. 1894, p. 249-263. 
In the first part of this paper I propose some rules to be observed in 
adducing synonymies, rules which have hitherto been generally neglected by 
authors (including myself). 
140. Three Trochobolae from New Zealand and Tasmania. 
Berl. Ent. Z. 1894, p. 264—266. 
A Correction to this paper was published by me ibid. 1895, p. 170; but, 
on that page, read australis Skuse, for australensis. 
141. A remarkable case of malformation of the discal cell in a 
specimen of Liogma glabrata. 
Berl. Ent. Z. 1894, p. 267—268. 
142. On the oxen-born bees of the Ancients ( Bugonia ), and 
their relation to Eristalis tenax, a two-winged insect. 
Heidelberg, 1894, XIV and 80 pages (printing-office of J. Hoerning). 
This is a new edition, much enlarged, of my No. 133, 1893. See also 
below, No. 147, 1895. 
An interesting result of my identification of the Oxen-born bees of the 
ancients with the fly Eristalis tenax (drone-fly) is the very simple explanation 
of the story of Samson’s bees which it affords. These pretended bees, which 
Samson found nesting in the carcass of the lion he had killed a short time be¬ 
fore, were the common drone-flies , resembling bees. This story, which has been 
