256 NOTES. 



the Snitcn a Buffon; an error however, which was due to Macquart 

 himself, who did not allude to his ])revious publication. 



261. There is a paj)er by F. Walker, Observations on the British 

 species of Pipunculidae. (Entom. Magaz., Vol. II, 1835, p. 2ri2— 270.) 

 Also a survey of the Swedish species by C. G. Thomson, in his Ojiusciila 

 etitomologiccu Stockholm 1870, p. 109. 



262. Oestridae. Compare Brauer, Monographic der Oestriden, 

 Vienna IBOo; with numerous plates of the imagos, larvae and pupae. The 

 full synonymy of all the species enumerated will be found in this work, 

 as well as the litterature. 



263. Tachinidae. I have principally followed Schincr's distribution 

 (in the Fauna Austriaca). 



264. On Ocyptera see Loew, Stett. Ent. Z. 1844, p. 226, 206 •, also 

 1845, p. 170. Winnertz, Stett. Ent. Z. 1845, p. 33. 



26-5. Dejeacia corpulenta. I have seen Wiedemann's type in 

 Vienna, which is my JJ. rexatrix. D. fnfipcdpis M;icq., in Mr. Bellardi's 

 collection, is the same species. I have been misled by Macquart's false 

 identification of Wiedemann's species. 



266. Dejfania rutilioides. I have seen Mr. Jaennicke's type in the 

 Museum in I)armstadt and recognize in it the Tachinid which I men- 

 tioned in the Western Diptera, p. 3 4, line 8 from the end. 



267. Tachina vivida. Mr. Harris described this species in 1841; 

 there existed at that time a Tacldna vivida Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. II, 

 p. 312 (1830). Wiedemann's Tach. dbrup'a would thus have the prio- 

 rity, if its idendity with Tach. vivida Harris was ascertained. 



268. For Micropalpus flavitarsis ^lacq. and ornatus Macq. , as well 

 as for a considerable number of other south american species, Dr. Schiner 

 (1. c.) introduces the genus SaiDidcrsia, as these species have nothing: 

 in common with Micropalpus, but the rudimentary palpi. 



26y. I take Nemoraea in the sense of Schiner as embracing Erigone 

 and other genera of R. DesvoiJy. 



270. Exorista in the sense of Schiner, involves the genera Lijdella, 

 ZeniUia, CarceUia and in part Wintliemia of Rob. Desvoidy. I have 

 also included in it all the species which Mr. Walker described under 

 the head of ApJomyia R. I). Myod. p. 184, for the reason tiiat Rob. 

 Desvoidy calls this genus intermediate between his Wiidlicmia. and 

 CarceUia and that, in his later work (Dipt, des envir. de Paris, I, ji. 

 459) he adopts for the type of the genus Tachina confmis Fallen, 

 Zetterstedt, which is an Exorista. 



271. Belvoisia bifasciata. The larva, according to Macquart, m'hs 

 bred by Boisduval from the chrysalis of Ccrocampa regalis ; Mr. Riley 

 obtained it from Dryocampa ruhicunda Fahr. 



272. Metopia. I take this genus in the sense of Schiner as em- 

 hra< ing Araha and Ophelia of Rob. Desvoidy. 



272 a. A detailed definition of the genus Eurygaster and of its 

 relal ionship to other genera of Tachinidae, is given ny Kowicky, Bei- 

 trag z. Kenntniss d. Dipterenfauna Neuzcelands, Krakau 1875, p. 28. 



273. Compare : Monograph upon the Briti-^h species of Sarcophaga, 



