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sunshine, and feeding on pollen principally of the grasses, towards evening 

 hanging motionless from the stalks. The male was not observed to take 

 any nourishment. 



STRATIOMYD.E. Stager (Ent. Zeit. 403) has examined what the species 

 is which LimiEBus meant by Musca hypoleon, and comes to the conclusion 

 that it should be referred to the Oxycera pulchellu, Meig. (see further the 

 Report for 1845.) 



Stratiomys argentata, F., Oxycera hypoleon, Zett., and 0. leonina, have 

 been found in Denmark by Jacobsen. (Kroyer, Nat. Tidsskr. N. R. i, 40.) 



The larva of Clitellaria ephippium has been discovered by Markel. (Germ. 

 Zeitschr. v, 200, 478.) It lives in the nest of Formica fuliginosa The 

 larva had left the nests towards the end of March, and towards the end of 

 April the fly made its appearance. 



SYRPHICI. Roudani (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, 01) has given a Monograph 

 of the Italian species of Callicera. 1. C. spinola: with two deep black 

 bauds across the abdomen, the thighs in the entirely red. Common in 

 Central Italy in October, chiefly on the flowers of Solidago virgaurea. 2. 

 C. roserii : abdomen with a dark band at the sides of the second, and some- 

 times also of the third segment ; the thighs in both sexes black, with the 

 tip red. Found among the lower ranges of the Appennines of Central 

 Italy, in September and October. 3. C. macquartii : without bands on the 

 abdomen ; the second joint of the feelers but half the length of the first ; the 

 eyes hairy in < . Duchy of Parma. 4. C. aurata Rossi (cenea, Meig.) : 

 without bauds on the abdomen, the first two joints of the feelers of equal 

 length, the eyes of the $ bald. Very rare in Germany, France, and Italy. 

 The author tliinks C. aenea, Pz., may possibly prove a fifth species (C. 

 panzeri, Rond.), differing from all the rest by the length of the second joint 

 of the feelers, which exceeds the first by much, if the figure is correct. (A 

 sixth species will be C. nifa, Schumm. (Arb. Schles. 1841), which, in the 

 proportions of the feeler-joints, agrees with C. macquartii, but has the legs 

 entirely red, and seems, besides, to be marked by the red colour of the 

 pubescence.) 



[Roudaui has also (Ann. Bol. 1844, Settre.) separated Scam rufcornis, 

 F. (Conops cuprea, Scop.), from Chcilosia, as a new genus, Ferdinandca, 

 characterized by the forehead jutting out at the insertion of the feelers, and 

 by the awn of these being perfectly naked. A second species, F. aurea, R., 

 new, is described.] 



Wahlberg (Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1844, p. 04) has described several 

 new species of this family, from Lapland ; Ilelophilits affinis, intermediate 

 between peudulus and trivittatus ; H. lapponicus, most nearly related to H. 

 arcticus, Zctt., H. bottnicus, which in aspect and habit resembles a Crior- 

 hina; Emchyopa cinerea, of a lead colour, the abdomen black, with the end 

 reddish brown ; Scava latimana. 25 



