AUTHORITIES. XXIX 



30 plates. Several American species are figured in this work, 



but no new ones described 

 CUKTIS , J. - - Description of the Insects brought home by Commander 



J. Clark Ross. (In his Voyage to the Arctic Regions, 1881.) 

 CltiroiioiiiHS borealis, T/'/mhi n ret ten, IMijiJiiltin bilim'itfiis, 



Tacliina hiiia, Anfhowyia dubin, and Scatophaga j>ie<tlis, are new. 

 DEGEER, Baron Charles. - - Memoires pour servir a 1'Histoire des In- 



sectes. Stockholm, 1752 78. 7 vols. Several American species 



are described in the 6th vol. 



DESVOIDV, Robineau. - - Essai sur la tribu des Culicides. In the Me- 

 moires de la Societe d'llist. Nat. de Paris, vol. iii, p. 890-418. 1827. 



Five new species from N. America and the West Indies. 

 Essai sur les Myodaires. In the Memoires des savants etrangers 



de 1'Academie des Sciences de Paris. Vol. ii (1830). 



This Essai is a 4to. volume of more than 800 pages, containing 



a new systematical arrangement of the whole group, and numerous 



descriptions (among which some eighty new North American 



species). 

 Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris. Paris 1863. 



(Vol. I, XVI and 1143 panes; Vol II, 920 pages). 



Posthumous work; contains short descriptions of a few N. A. 



diptera; no new ones. 

 DRURV, Drew. - - Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited 



upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects. 



London , 1770 82. 3 vols. (A new edition of this work has 



been published in 1837, by Westwood, under the title of Illustra- 

 tions of Foreign Entomology.) Eight N. American and West 



Indian species are figured. 

 DUFODR, Leon. - - Revision et Monographic du Genre Ceroplatus. In 



the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 2e serie, vol. xi, p. 193 



(1839), with figures. Contains the description of Ceropltdiis car- 



bonarius Hose, from Carolina. Conf. Bosc. 

 DCMERIL, A. M. C. - - Considerations Generates sur la classe des In- 



sectes, etc. Strasbourg et Paris, 1823. With plates. No new 



species. 

 ERICHSON, F. W. - - Die Henopier. Eine Familie aus dor Ordnung der 



Diptern. (In Erichson's Entomographien, Berlin, 1840.) Ucntii 



micans, new species from Mexico. 

 ESCHSCHOLZ, Dr. J. F. -- Entomographien, in Svo. Berlin, 1823. 



Empis laniventris, and Musca obscoena, new species from Una- 



laschka. 



FABRICIUS, J. C. - - Systema Entomologiae. Flensburgi, 1775. 

 Mantissa Insectorum. 2 vols. Hatniae, 1787. 

 Entomologia Systematica. 4 vols. Hatniae, 1772 94; Suppl. 1798. 

 Systema Antliatorum. Brunsvigae, 1805. 

 FABRICIUS. 0. - Fauna Groenlandica. Hafniae et Lipsia,e, 1780. Svo. 



Eighteen diptera are described. A useful commentary to this 



