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characters of several new genera of the Cccidomyiui and Lestremiui, an 

 extract from which is given in the Isis. The third, containing a distribution 

 of the European Dipt era into 3 5 families, is in theAunali di Bologna (vol.vi), 

 and an extract is given in the Isis (1843, p. 614.) There is, besides, a 

 fourth article upon the genus Phasia, and a fifth upon Chortophila, [with 

 another on a new genus of Syrphidse.] I have not been able here to get a 

 sight of these Transactions as yet. 



TIPULAM,E. Loew has proposed several new genera. Prionocera (Eut. 

 Zeit. 170, pi. 2. f. 30, 31), intermediate between Cteuophora and Tipula, the 

 wings and feelers as in the latter, the feelers serrated beneath, without 

 whorls of hairs, no frogs (pulvilli) to the feet, the body clothed with, soft 

 almost woolly down. A new species from the neighbourhood of Poseu, Pr. 

 pulescens, rather more than 3'" long. The generic name has been employed 

 previously. Mochlonyx (ibid. 121 note), established for Corethra velutina, 

 lluthe (Isis, 1831, p. 1205), which differs from Corethra, c., by the 

 shortness of the first joint of the feet, [one fourth the length of the 

 second ; an extinct species is M. sepultus in amber.] Hamasson 

 (ibid. 115, pi. 1, f. 1-5), beyond question identical with Phlebotomus, 

 Roud. ; the species observed by Loew, in Hungary, Wallachia, and 

 Constantinople, H. minutus, is probably Bibio papatasii, Scop. Liponeura 

 (ibid. 118, pi. 1, f. 6-10), for a species found in Silesia, L. cincrasccns, agrees 

 in many respects with Blepharicera, Macq., and Asthenia, Westw. (Report 

 1843, p. 185, and 1842, p. 293), and is very probably not distinct, sup- 

 posing that Westwood and Macquart may have overlooked the peculiar struc- 

 ture of the feet, with the last joint toothed below and the claws serrated. 



Macquart (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, 69, pi. 11) has given additional par- 

 ticulars of his genus Blepharicera. (Rep. 1843, p. 185.) He had previously 

 known only one sex, which he took for the male, on account of the eyes 

 meeting. He has since obtained the other sex, which, from the form of the 

 abdomen behind, must be the male ; it has also longer legs and broader wings, 

 but what is remarkable, the eyes are smaller, separate, and composed of equal 

 facets. T he eyes are hairy ; the last joint of the palps in the long and 

 flexible, as in Tipula. The assemblages of these males were seen also 

 performing their evolutions in the air at a greater height than the others. 



Loew (Ent. Zeit. 324) divides Lestremia into two subgcuera, Lestremia 

 with fifteen joints in the feelers of the , and Cetidogona with eleven. Of 

 the latter he has described a new species, L. carnea, found at Posen. 



[Roudaui (Mem. ditterol. iii, Annali di Bologna, vi)has proposed several 

 new genera, viz, of the Cecidomyini, which he distinguishes from the fol- 

 lowing tribe by the shortness of the first joint of the feet and the constant 

 absence of eyelets (ocelli), 1. Brachymura (fuscogrisea, new species), 2. 

 Dasyneura (luteofusra, new species, and obscura, new species), differing from 



