36 The entomologist's kecokd. 



jHij>i/»(ira {Zcitsc/ir. Hi/iiwn. ii. Dipt.) ; and Miss Ricardo, in continuing 

 her studies on the I'cuuiuninae {Ann. Xat. Hist.), has elucidated some 

 of Walker's and L5igot's types. The commencement of a " Catalogue 

 of the Diptera of the World," by Kertesz (Lipsite, Engelmaun), and a 

 "Monograph of the Pahearctic Sciniin/:.i(Iae,'' by Hendel (^6/*. ;.-/;. 

 M'icn.), are two important publications of the past year. The latter 

 writer has also contributed various small articles on Uiptera (]Vien. 

 Knt. Zeit., dr.). Pandelle has continued his " Etudes sur les 

 Muscides de France " {Her. Ent. Caen), Portschinsky has written upon 

 the Oestridae (Ann. Mus. St. Petersh.) and the CeciiUmu/idac have been 

 dealt with by Kieffer, Trotter, .J. Darboux et C. Houard, &c., and the 

 first number has been issued of a journal called " Marcellia," edited 

 by A. Trotter, and published at Avellino (Italy), which is devoted 

 entirely to articles upon " Galls and gall-makers." 



The dipterological results of a short collecting trip in Egypt have 

 been published by Becker {Mt. Mas. Berlin), consisting of 66 pages 

 and one plate. Other faunistic papers are Grimshaw's " Diptera 

 Fauna Hawaiiensis " (Cambridge, 1901), Mutton's " Diptera brachy- 

 cera of New Zealand " {Trans. X. ZcaUouJ lnst.,\o\. xxxiii), Kertesz's 

 articles upon the South American species of Ceria and Chrysujiila 

 (Ternu's Fii::.), and Theobald's " Cnlicidae of India " {Proc. Boi/. Soc. 

 Loml.). Other writers upon the (JuUcidae include G. M. Giles, who 

 has published a second edition of his " Handbook of the Gnats or 

 Mosquitoes"; H. Polaillon, "Contribution a I'etude de I'histoire 

 naturelle et medicale des Moustiques " (Paris, 128 pp., 82 figs.) ; and 

 Stephens and Christopher's Ili'portto Malaria i'onun. of Rnij. Sue. 



North x\merican dipterologists, including such names as Coquillet, 

 .Johnson, Aldrich, and J. B. Smith, have contributed articles upon their 

 fauna of Diptera in various American magazines. 



Papers on the morphology, histology, Arc, of the Diptera have been 

 published by Meijere, " Ueber die Prothorakalstigmen der Dipteren- 

 puppen" {Zool.-hihr. Jena) ; Escherich, " ZurEntwicklung der Nerven- 

 systeias der Musciden " {Zeitsc/ir. uiss. Zoul. Lcipsii/) ; and Vaney, 

 " Contributions a I'etude des Larves et des Metamorphoses des Dip- 

 teres " (Lyons, 178 pp., -1 pis.) ; and others. 



Contributions to the Fauna of Spain: Bejar, Avila, etc. 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 {('ontinueil from p. 16.) 



From Avila we came home, breaking the journey at Burgos and at 

 St. Jean de Luz. At the latter place I took CijiioiiiiJes tnorplnns, a 

 butterfly I had not before seen alive, otherwise very little of ento- 

 mological interest was seen after we left Piedrahita. Piedrahita itself 

 seemed at first very unpromising, being situated beside a great plain 

 several miles wide and many in length, that was practically one field 

 of corn. We guessed one continuous patch to be something like 1000 

 acres. From Piedrahita we made a day's excursion to El Barco, a 

 village some two to three hours off, and of interest as aflbrding a 

 startin"' point for a portion of the Sierra de Gredos. 



When we entered Piedrahita we were much interested to see some- 

 thin"- like a dozen Hoopoes in the poplar trees by the roadside, and in 



