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xiv, 218.] Having received from Bohcmami a number of fine fresh speci- 

 mens of (E. trompe, from Lapland, for examination, 1 have changed 

 my opinion about the German species, which I now consider to be truly 

 distinct. It is the C. auribarbis, Meig., of which, probably, the wasted 

 specimens are (E. ritfibarbis, Wied. Mcig. Ratzeburg (Forstius. iii, pi. 10, 

 f. 13) has given a beautiful figure of the German species, which he regards 

 with reason as the species producing the maggots in the nostrils of the 

 red deer. 



L. Goudot (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, p. 41) has given the description of a 

 new species, Cuterebra noxialis, from New Granada. The larva which is 2 

 ceutirn. (above an inch) long, lives under the skin of domestic animals, dogs 

 as well as cattle. The Americans call it " Gusano" or " Nuche." To get 

 rid of it, they squeeze the part where the bott is so as to kill it (?), afterwards 

 washiug the wound with salt water, and sprinkling over it the seeds of 

 Asagrea officiualis (Veratrum) powdered. 



MUSCAKI^E. Zetterstedt's arrangement in the third volume of hisDiptera 

 Scand. comprises the Haernatomyzides, Tachinariaj, Phasiariee, and Dexiariac. 

 Ratzeburg (Forstins, iii, 162) has given important observations on the 

 natural history of such of the Hhtscida as are of interest in woodcraft. 

 These are principally the Tachinariae. With respect to his notion that these 

 flies also lay their eggs only on diseased subjects, I refer to what has been 

 said already under the head Hymeuoptera. 



[He has noticed as new species of Anthomyia 4, Tachina 13, Gonia 1 ; 

 but as they are rather indicated than described, it is needless to consider 

 them further in this place.] 



Etudes sur les Myodaires des environs de Paris, par Robineau Desvoidy. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, p. 1.) This author proposes to describe the Muscidae 

 of the Paris district, and has begun here with the Macromydte, including the 

 genera Peletieria, Fab fie la, Echinomyia, Servillea, Eurithia, and the Antho- 

 philce, viz. g. Linncemyia and Bonellia. 



Loew (Eut. Zeit. 168, pi. 2, f. 26, 29) has characterized a new genus, 

 Phylloteles, with the form and habit of a Miltogrannua, but remarkable in 

 having the awn of the feelers three-jointed, with the third joint compressed, 

 foliaceous. Ph. pectipennis, new species, discovered in Asia Minor. 



He has also submitted the species of Ocyptcra to a searching examination. 

 (Ib. 226, 266.) The genus is divided into two groups according to the 

 structure of the feeler-awn, which is of the common form in the first, but 

 dilated at the end in the second, section. To the first belong 1. 0. coccinca, 

 Mg. 2. O.ruf/pennis, new species, from Rhodes. 3. O-pilipeSjiicw species, 

 from Constantinople and Prusa. 4. 0. brassicaria, F. 5. 0. intermedia, 

 Mg. 6. 0. brevicornis, new species, from Austria. 7. 0. setulosa, new 

 species, and 8. 0. coarctata, new species, from Portugal. 9. 0. 

 new species, from Vienna. 



