CATALOGUE OF NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA. 413 



vicaria WALKER, List, in, 679. Nova Scotia. 



WILLISTON, Trans. Conn. Acad., vi, 386, quotes orig. desc. 

 N. J. Smith Cat. ; Montreal Chagnon. 



SICUS. 



SCOPOLI, Entom. Carniolica, 1004, 1/63. 

 SCHINER, Fauna Austr., i, 384, 1862. 



brevirostris COQUILLETT, Canad. Ent., xxxiv, 198. Sierra Madre, Chihuahua, 

 Mex. 



CESTRIM:. 



BRACER, Monographic der CEstriden, Vienna, 1863, is the great classic work on 



this family. 

 BRAUER and BERGENSTAMM, Zweifl. d. Kaiserl. Mus., iv, 158 and vi, 180, tables 



of genera of the world. 

 BRAUER, Zweifl. d. Kaiserl. Mus., in, 36, table of genera, based on larvae of the 



third stage. 



BRAUER, Denkschr. d. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Classe, LXIV, 259- 



282, I pi., has a fascinating article on the descent of the CEstridse and on the 



elephant hot, Cobboldia elcplianlis, which may be brought to the United States 



in elephants from India. 



TOWNSEND, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., n, 94, 1891, gives tables of genera, both for 



larvae and adults, from Brauer. 



OSBORN, Bull. Div. Ent., No. 5, notes on Gastropliilus and other bots. 

 HUNTER, Nebraska Bd. of Hort, 189, 291-300, popular illustrated account of 



bots. 



AUSTEN, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xv, 391, 1895, table of genera 

 of Cuterebrina. 



The following references have not been assigned to any genus : 

 Ground-squirrel bot: RILEY and HOWARD, Insect Life, iv, 147, extract from cor- 

 respondence, on a new species from Kansas, not emasculator. 

 Bots affecting Man: BLANCHARD, Annales Soc. ent. de France, 1892, full sum- 

 mary of American cases. 



RILEY and HOWARD, Ins. Life, v, 2, brief review of foregoing; p. 58, addi- 

 tion notes on same subject. 

 See also under Dermatobia.' 



Botfly of Cat: RILEY and HOWARD, Insect Life, vi, 266, extract from correspond- 

 ence on, in North Carolina ; p. 327, two more cases, in N. Y. and Mo. 

 Botfly of Rabbit: RILEY and HOWARD, Insect Life, in, 21, extract from corre- 

 spondence on, affecting jack-rabbits in Texas. See also Cutercbra. 



GASTROPHILUS. 



LEACH, On the Genera and Species of Eproboscideous Insects, 1817. 



MEIGEN, Syst. Beschr., iv, 174, 1824 (Castries'). 



SCHINER, Fauna Austr., i, 390, 1862. 



BRAUER, Mon. CEstriden, 53, 1863, full biology, table of species, etc. 

 [epilepsalis FRENCH, Canad. Ent., 1900, 263, fig.; 1904, 83. 111. 



ALDRICH, Canad. Ent., 1900, 318, rejects species. 



Note. Described from a larval specimen 2 mm. long, passed by a boy 



who had had epileptic spasms for four years!] 



WASHBURN, Canad. Ent., xxxv, 320. case of a subcutaneous human para- 

 site, almost certainly a different species. 



