58 THE fntomoiooist's rkcord. 



Kill! Jiorner has desci'ibed a new genus of Sciarinap, the species of 

 which are wingless in the female [Zool. Anz.). The study of galls and 

 gall-makers is still continued in the Italian periodical Man-rllia. 



With regard to the fauna of North America, Kellogg has published 

 a M(iiio;irap/i of the Blephaioveriilae [Proc. ( 'al. Ac. Soc), and Melander 

 a Monoi/raph of the Empididae [Trans. Ent. Soc. Phil., 1902) of which 

 latter family Coquillett has published an account of the genera (Pror. 

 Knt. Soc. JVash.), in which he revives several old names, and he has 

 also written various small articles in other different American 

 magazines. Hine has written on the Tabamdae of Ohio, giving a list 

 of the North American species (Spec. Pap. Acad. Sc). Adams has 

 described a number of new species {Kans. ['nir. Bull.), and Johannsen 

 has published a paper on "Aquatic Nematocerous Diptera'" (.V. Y. 

 State Piidl.). Various American authors have written upon Calicidae, 

 which still continue to attract a great deal of attention; Theobald 

 having published a third volume of his Monograph, and descriptions of a 

 number of new species in different magazines, while Nuttall and Shipley 

 have concluded their exhaustive studies on the ■' Structure and 

 Anatomy of Anopheles " [Jonrn. of Fiyi/iene). 



F. \V. Hutton has continued to add new species to the fauna of 

 New Zealand (Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., 1902). Grinishaw has produced 

 a supplement to " Fauna Hawaiiensis," and a second supplement on 

 the Diptera ]iupipara is the work of Speiser. Austen has published a 

 Monoiiraph of the Tsetse jiies ((ilossina)'' (London, 319 pp., and 

 numerous plates and figs.), and notes on the Hippobosridae of the 

 British Museum [Ann. Mafi. Xat. Hist.). Other writers on exotic 

 entomology include Bishoi (Berl. Hut. Xeit. and ll'ien. F.nt. Zeit.),\.\,n([ 

 Kertesz (Termes Fnzetek, etc.). 



Morphological and histological papers are very few in number, but 

 special mention may be made of Iv. Triigardh's Anatomie mid Entwirk- 

 ehincfsgeschirhte der Tarre ron Ephi/dra riparia. Fin. {T\. Vet. Ah. 

 Stockhobii). 



Notes on the habits, distribution and variation of Phragmatobia 



fuliginosa. 



By J. W. Tt'TT, F.E.S. 



I am afraid my knowledge of this species hardly warrants a paper ; 

 my only excuse for bringing this before you is that, from some eggs I 

 was fortunate enough to obtain in April last, Mr. Bacot has reared a 

 considerable number of imagnies, made somewhat extensive notes on 

 the larva^ and pupie, and 1 thought that his paper on these stages 

 might very well be supplemented by a note or two on the distributu)u 

 and variation of the speecies and on its imaginal habits, so far as I 

 have observed them. 



I first remember seeing Phraiiinatuhiu fidiiiimmi in the imaginal 

 stage in June, 1874, when iNlr. Ovenden and 1 captured a few males, 

 Hying in the morning sun, on some rough ground between Cuxton and 

 dialling. A few were seen on the same ground in the following years, 

 but the specimens we captured in those days appear largely to have 

 disappeared into the limbo of the past ; the one or two I have, show 



* Paper read before the Citrof London Entomologicnl Society, November Itjth, 

 1903. 



