8 KBVIEW OF LITEBATUEB. 



(ler Zoolog. Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wieu , Schine)''s Diptera 

 der Novara-Reise (1868) contains a large nunil)ei" of new species 

 and interesting notes on the systematical arrangement Urged on 

 by the Austrian government the frigate Novara made a voyage 

 round the world for scientifical purposes and brought home immense 

 zoological and also entomological collections, which were worked 

 out by specialities, the Diptera by Schiner. 



Similar scientific travels were more than once undertaken by diffe- 

 rent nations and gave occasion to the publication of the zoological 

 results, in which mostly the insects and also the Diptera found a 

 place. Among them we may mention here: Voyage de I'Astrolabe, the 

 entomology by Boisduval ; Kongl. Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa, 

 the Diptera by C. G. Thomson ; and the Netherland expedition to 

 central Sumatra, the Diptera worked out by myself. 



A Dipterologist, who wrote on Malayan forms, was G. L. Dole- 

 SCHALL, a native of Austria and military physician in Dutch service. 

 Besides some articles concerning Araneidae, he published three papers 

 in the Natuurkundig Tijdschrlft voor Nederl. Indie about Diptei-a 

 from Java and Amboina. His descriptions are short and not very 

 satisfactory, but the first and second of these papers are accompanied 

 by a series of figures. To the third paper no figures are added , but 

 there exist original and coloured drawings of tlie author himself, which 

 are relative to the descriptions in that paper and which in doubtful 

 cases may be consulted. These drawings were some years ago in 

 the possession of Snellen van Vollenhoven , to whom they were given 

 by von Rosenberg, a contempary and friend of Doleschall; at 

 the public sale of VoUenhoven's library they came into the hands 

 of Mr. J. Puis in Gent (Belgium). Two very accurate copies of 

 them are prepared, one of which is in the possession of Baron 

 Osten Sacken in Heidelberg , the other in the library of the 

 Dutch Entomological Society at Leyden. Some of the typical 

 specimens, collected by Doleschall, are in the Imperial Museum 

 at Vienna. 



G. RoNDANi , well known by his standardwork : Dipterologiae 

 italicae Frodro7mis, also published several papers on exotic Diptera 



