258 NOTES. 



Notes on the Anthomyiidae of North America. (Entomologists Monthly 

 Magazine, April 1878," p. 250-252.) 



He sums up his comparison as follows : 



„0n looking over the collection, it struck me, in the first place, 

 „that the number of species was small in proportion to the number of 

 „specimens; and next, that the number of smaller and feebler species 

 „was greater in proportion to that of the larger and more highly 

 „developed forms, than occurs in Europe. I only determined 121 species 

 „in the collection. There where few, if any, peculiar forms among them; 

 „they could all be arranged in the same g' nera as the european species; 

 „they had the same sombre colours and ordinary forms, which are so 

 „familiar to us; and many of the common european kinds where so 

 „closely represented, that it was difficult to say, in some instances, 

 „whether they were exactly the same, or closely analogous species." 



278. Schiner, Fauna Austr. , Dipt. I, p. 644, quotes Anthomyia 

 brassicae Bouche as a synonym of A. ruficeps Meig., but with a doubt. 



279. Schiner, 1. c. p. 643, quotes A. ceparum as a synonym of 

 A. oidiqua Meig. 



280. M. Walsh describes in the same place the larva-stnge^; of 

 two other Homalomyiae, H. Leydii and H. Wikonii, the imago of which 

 is not known. 



281. Dialyta. About this genus, see Loew, Wien. Entom. Mon. II, 

 p. 152. 



282. Lispe. On this genus comp. Loew, Stett. Zeitung, 1847, 

 p. 23-32. 



283. About the systematic location of Schoenomyza, compare Loew, 

 Ccntur. X, 73, nota. 



284. Cordylura. Compare Haliday's note in Westwood's Synopsis, 

 p. 143—144; see also Scatophaga ibid. There is a paper by Proi. C. 

 Kondani, Scatophaginae Italicae. 



28-5. Schiodte (Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 153) seems to be in doubt 

 about the interpretation of the Musca stercoraria of 0. Fabrici'us, as 

 well as of the two following species , M. scijbalaria and cloacuris (Fn. 

 Groenl. 161-163). 



286. Compare the monographic essay by Loew: Ueber d. Europ. 

 Helomyzidae, in the Schl. Zeitschr. f Entom. 1859. 



287. Blepharoptera defessa. The detestable figure appended to my 

 description of this species, was pubhshed without my knowledge and 

 consent. 



283. See the paper: On the North American Sciomyzidae , by H. 

 Loew, in the JMonogr. of N. A. Diptera, I, p. 103. 



289. „Tetanocera Boscii is characterized so insufficiently, that there 

 is no possibility to identify it. T. canadensiH is also unknown to me. 

 T. guttuluris Wied. is mentioned by Macquart as a native of N. Am., 

 but I must consider this statement as a mistake, since the characters 

 he gives do not agree with the description of T. guttularis Wied. ; but 



