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LIST OF SOME CORSICAN DIPTERA. 

 BY THE REV. T. A. MARSHALL, MA , E.E.S. 



The Diptera of Corsica have not received much attention. I 

 propose, therefore, to mention such of my captures in the past season 

 or formerly as 1 am able to indicate by name, omitting those that are 

 universal, like the house-fly. I expected to find a strong resemblance 

 between the Dipterous fauna of Sicily (as recorded in the Catalogue 

 of Bezzi and de Stefani-Perez, Palermo, 1897) and that of this island, 

 but there appears to be no very close correspondence. A large 

 number of my captures remain at present undetermined, owing prin- 

 cipally to the want of some indispensable works, those of Rondani, 

 Loew, &c. In the hope of receiving information as to the specific 

 identity of some of these insects, I should be glad to send them to 

 any one who would kindly examine them, and to furnish him, as far 

 as possible, with duplicates. The occurrence among them of new 

 species is far from improbable. 



Tipula vittata, Meig., and other spp. Thereva cincta, Meig. 

 Pachyrrhina luteata, Meig. annulata, F. 



crocata, L. Scenopinus fenestralis, Lair. 



Pedicia rivosa, L., rarely seen at Bastelica. Drapetis brunnipes, Mcq. 



Paracrocera globulus, Panz. 

 Lonchoptera sp. 

 Dolichopodidse, not ex. 

 Bombylius, several spp. not ex. 

 CjUenia maculata, Latr. 

 Toxophora maculata, Wied. 



Limnobiidae, not examined. 

 Bibio leucopterus, Meig. 

 Dilophus sp. 



Sciara Thomse, L., and other spp. 

 Rhyphus fuscatus, Meig. 

 Tabanus, large black sp., six taken. 



small grey sp., with large head, Pthiria (n. sp. ?). 



flying to lamp at night. Anthrax hottentottus. 



Ileematopota longicornis, Meig. Pandora, F. 



Pachygaster ater, F., bi-ed in larva-cage Megsera, Meig. 



out of the earth, in some numbers. varius, F. 



Ehopalia vittata (Walk. ?). On coast at Ixion, J^. 



S. Florent ; named formerly by F. Argyromseba etrusca, F. 



Walker, but I could never find the de- Baccha elongata, F. 



Bcription. Allied to Mydas ; but the Melithreptus scriptus, L. 



two specimens have perished, and I Pyrophtena rosarum, F. 



have found none since {Mydas lusitani- Syrphus vitripennis, Meig. 



cus, Meig. ?). balteatus, Deg. 



Laphria marginata, L., Vizzavona. Catabomba pyrastri, L. 



Dioctria (longicornis, Meig. ?). Chilosia, spp. not ex. 



Asilus barbarus, L., Ajaccio. Other spp. Volucella zonaria, Meig. 



not ex. Sericomyia borealis, Fall., seen several 



Leptogaster cylindrieus, Deg. times at Bastelica. 



