AUTHORITIES. XXIX 



30 plates. Several American species are figured in tliis work, 



but no new ones described. 

 Curtis , J. — Description of the Insects brought home by Commander 



J. Clark Ross. (In his Voyage to the Arctic Regions, 1!^31.) 

 Chiwnomus dorealis, Tipula arctica, HdopliRui^ hiJiueatus, 



Tachina hiiia, Anthomyia duhia, and Scatophaga apicalis, are new. 

 Degeer, Baron Charles. — jNIemoires pour servir a THistoire des In- 



sectes. Stockholm, 1752 — 78. 7 vols. Several American species 



are described in the 6th vol. 

 Desvoidv, Robineau. — Essai sur la tribu des Culicides. In the Me- 



moires de la Societe d'llist. Nat. de Paris, vol. iii, p. ,390 — 413. 1827. 

 Five new species from N. America and the West Indies. 

 „ Essai sur les Myodaires. In the jNIemoires des savants etrangers 



de I'Academie des Sciences de Paris. Vol. ii (1830). 



This Essai is a 4to. volume of more than 800 pages, containing 



a new systematical arrangement of the whole group, and numerous 



descriptions (among which some eighty new North American 



species). 

 „ Histoire natarelle des dipteres des environs do Paris. Paris 1863. 



(Vol. I, XVI and 1143 pages; Vol II, 920 pages). 



Posthumous work; contains short descriptions of a few N. A. 



diptera; no new ones. 

 Dkurv, Drew. — Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited 



upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects. 



London, 1770 — 82. 3 vols. (A new edition of this work has 



been published in 1837, by Westwood, under the title of Illustra- 

 tions of Foreign Entomology.) Eight N. American and West 



Indian species are figured. 

 DuFouR , Leon. — Revision et Monographie du Genre Ceroplatus. In 



the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 2e serie, vol. xi, p. 193 



(1839), with figures. Contains the description of Ccroplaius car- 



houarms Bose, from Carolina. Conf. Bosc. 

 Dl-meril, a. M. C. — Considerations Generales sur la classe des In- 



sectes, etc. Strasbourg et Paris, 1823. With plates. No new 



species. 

 EincHsoK, F. W. — Die Henopier. Eine Familie aus dor Ordnung der 



Diptern. (In Erichson's Entomographien, Berlin, 1840.) Ociiaca 



micans, new species from Mexico. 

 Epciisciiolz, Dr. J. F. — Entomographien, in 8vo. Berlin, 1823. 



Emjns laniventriS., and Musea obscoena, new species from Uaa- 



laschka. 

 Fabkicius, J. C. — Systema Entomologiae. Flensburgi, 1775. 

 „ Mantissa Insectorum. 2 vols. Hafniae, 1787. 

 „ Entomologia Systematica. 4 vols. ILifniae, 1772— 94; Suppl. 1798. 

 „ Systema Antliatorum. Brunsvigae, 180-3. 

 FAmjicius. 0. — Fauna Groenlandica. Hafniae et Lipsiae, 1780. Svo. 



Eighteen diptera are described. A useful conunentary to this 



