262 f'^i'"'' 



Macquart's five genera, Eriosoma (which Schiner refers to Ocnaa) , Mesocera (whieh 

 the same writer refers to Psilodera), Fhysegaster, Epicerina and Pteropexus, the 

 following may be added : — 



Sph.5:eogastee, Zett., Dipt. Scand., i, 232. 



Apelleia, Bellardi, Dipt. Messic., Appx- p. 17 (1862). A. vittata, Mexico. 



HoLOPS, Philippi, Verb. z.-b. Gres. Wien, 1865, p. 64.5. R. cyaneus (sic) and 

 S. inanis, Valdivia. 



Spn^ROPS, Philippi, Verh. z.-b. Q-es. Wien, 1865, p. 646. S. appendiculata 

 {sic) Santiago. 

 Further references to recently described species may be supplied as follows :— 



Eolops Fraiienfeldl, Schiner, Novara Dipt., p. 143 (1868). Chili. 



Philopota semicincta, Schiner, „ p. 144. South America. 



Acrocera ohsoleta, Van der Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent., 1869, p. 139. "Wisconsin. 



Opsehius sulphiiripes, Loew, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1869, p. 166. New York. 



Oncodes costatus, Loew, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1869, p. 165. Massachusetts. 

 „ formosus, Loew, Eur. Dipt., iii, 101 (1873). Scharud. 



And lastly, it may be added that Schiner {ubi sup.) mentions 103 species of 

 Acroceridce as having been described up to 1868, and divides the family into three 

 sub-families, containing the following genera : — 



ACROCERIN^. Oncodes, Acrocera, Ifolops, SpheBrops, Opsehius, Cyrtus, Psilo- 

 dera, SphcBroyaster. 



Panopin^. Pterodontia, Pialea, Astomella, ApeUeia, Physegaster, Ocncea, Epi- 

 cerina, Pteropexus, Panops, Lasia, Eidonchus. 



PuiLOPOTiN.ffi. Terphis, Philopota, Thyllis. 



I presume Prof. Westwood's new genera, Apsona, Leucopsina, Pialeoidea, and 

 Nothra, will all fall within tlie PanopincB. And a propos of the genus Astomella, it 

 may be mentioned that Brauer (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1867, p. 737) describes and 

 figures the larva and pupa of A. Lindenii, Erichs. (Entomog., p. 159) ; the larva 

 being parasitic in the body of a spider, Cteniza ariana. 



In Ilymenoptera, Mr. Camero7i is to be welcomed as a new contributor to the 

 Transactions with a paper on Tenthredinidce and SiricidcB, chiefly from the East 

 Indies ; whilst our old friend, Mr. Frederick Smith, describes and gives a coloured 

 plate of Formicida and other Ilymenoptera from New Zealand, and by way of 

 Supplement to three previous papers on the Cryptoceridce, he now adds a fourth, 

 and describes and in an excellent plate figui'es all the sexes of Meranoplus intrudetis, 

 a South-African species, which constructs its formicarium in the thorns of a species 

 of Acacia. 



Of the papers on Lepidoptera, two by Mr. Miskin are descriptive of Australian 

 novelties ; whilst in the third Prof. Westwood gives, from the observations of 

 Mr. Bowring, the habits of a remarkable moth from Hong Kong, apparently 

 belonging to the family Arctiidce, the larva of which is parasitic on the lantern-fly, 

 Fiilgora candelaria, and which in allusion to this circumstance is described under 

 the name of Epipyrops. A capital plate of details of the various stages of the insect 

 accompanies the letterpress. 



The Ilemiptcrous memoirs are especially valuable, as the only papers in the 

 volume which are devoted to British Entomology. One is a Monograph, with two 

 plates, of the Homoptcrous family PsyllidcB, by Mr. John Scott, in which 42 (or 43 ?) 

 species of these curious little insects are enumerated. The other is the third part of 

 Mr. Edward Saunders's most useful Synopsis of British Heteroptera (with a plate of 

 Saldcc), the earlier portions of which appeared in tfie Transactions for 1875. 



