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Retrospect of a Dipterist for 1903. 



J. E. COLLIN, F.E.S. 



Our list of British diptera has been increased during the year past 

 by fourteen species, three of which were new to science. Dr. J, H. 

 Wood has introduced Afiathntnijia viduella, Ztt., and described the male 

 which was previously unknoAvn (Ent. Mo. Mag.). Dr. Sharp, in the same 

 magazine, has introduced Chamoc'^t/rphits lunitanicua, Mik, Parhi/fiaster 

 minutissiina, Ztt., Phortica {Amiota) variegata, Fin., and confirmed 

 Loxocera nit/rifr())ii<, Mcq., from specimens taken in the New Forest. 

 W. H. Imms has introduced Clnnio birolor, Kieff. {Trans. Liverpool Biol. 

 Soc). F. V. Theobald in the third volume of his Mononraph of the 

 Culicidae, has included the genus Theohaldia, described by Neveu- 

 Lemaire in 1902, of Avhich our C, annnlatiis, Schrk., is the type, and 

 has founded the new genus GrahJiamia for our species ilormlii^, Mg., 

 and pidehripalpi.'i, Rnd.; he has raised his variety {^ylvae) of C nigripi'^ 

 to specific rank, and has described Cidcx terriei from Kent. Kev. 

 Wingate, in a "List of Durham Diptera" (XatKralist), includes two 

 Tachinidae new to our list, E.ioyista (Parexnrista) fi(fiax, Rnd., and K. 

 ///us.srt, B. and B., identified by Mr. C. J. Wainwright, our authority on 

 that family, and two new Anthomf/idae, Coenoftia tricolor, Ztt., and 

 Lispocephala alma, Mg., identified by Herr P. Stein, of Genthin, 

 Prussia. Mr. P. H. Grimshaw has continued publishing local lists of 

 Scotch diptera (Ann. Scot. N. Hint.), adding Sciara rufiventrifi, Mcq., 

 to our list. Hon. N. C. Rothschild has described two new species, 

 and added two other species, to our list of Pulicidae. Mr. T. H. 

 Taylor has given a note upon the larval habits of Chiroiomnn {Ortho- 

 cladiiifi) sordidellus, Ztt. {Trans. Ent. Soc. London), and Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman a note upon Asphondylia iilicis. Trail {EntomoloijiM). 



On the continent. Th. Becker has published a revision of the species 

 of the genus ilf)(/?V), Ltr. {Zeitschr. Hyiii. Dipt.), and an elucidation of 

 the types of v. Roser's Muscidae acahjpterap {Jahr. Wiirtt. Ver.); he has 

 also concluded his work on the diptera of Egypt, the complete work 

 consisting of 196 pages and five plates, forming a valuable addition to 

 our knowledge of the Egyptian fauna of diptera. Several new fleas 

 {Pulicidae), have been described by Hon. N. C. Rothschild from Egypt 

 {Ent. Mo. Mag.) and from other parts of the world {Novit. Zool.); other 

 writers upon the Aphaniptera include the names of Wagner {Hor. Soc. 

 Ent. Hos-f.) and Wahlgren {Arch. Zool.). P. Stein has given a mono- 

 graph of the genus Hydrotaea {Verh. Ges. Wien.), and a paper on 

 Aricia marmorata, Ztt., and its allies {Wien. Ent. Zeit.). P. L. Czerny 

 has published a revision of the Heteronearidae and of the species of 

 (-reoiiiyza {Wien. Ent. Zeit.), and F. Hendel has given various sys- 

 tematic notes on the Muscidae accdypterae in the same publication. M. 

 Bezzi has described a new species of Amrcina, inhabiting Italy, giving 

 a synopsis of the genus (Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital.), a note on ('aUiniyia 

 auriantiaca and wankowickzi [Wien. Ent. Zeit.), and an article upon 

 diptera inhabiting caves {Plir. Ital. Speleol.). Villeneuve {Bull. Soc. 

 Ent. Erancc) has published various notes on diptera, including an 

 elucidation of Meigen's types of the Bombylidac, and a contribution 

 towards a catalogue of the diptera of France and Belgium [Eeuille dc 

 Jeirn. Xatiiral.). Kertesz, in collaboration with other dipterologists, has 

 started to publish a ('atalor/ne of the Palaearctic Diptera (Budapest). 

 March 1st, 1904. 



