388 FOBTT-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM 



Curtis : Farm Insects, 1860, pp. 460-463 (habits and description of S. fucata^ 



quinquelmeata, pidicar-iaf, punctata). 

 LOEW: Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., Pt. I, 1862, p. 13 (differs greatly from the rest of 



the family). 

 OSTEN Sacken: in Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., i, 1863, pp. 153-157, pi. ii, figs. 3, 16, 



18, 20 (larval characters), p. 158 (pupal characters), pp. 163-165 (larval 



habits), p. 165 (descr. of S. toxoneura), pp. 169-171 (literature); Cat. 



Dipt. N. A., 1878, pp. 13, 13 (list of 31 species); Char. Larv. Mycetoph., 



1885, as in Pr. Ent. Soc. Pn., with pp. 27, 28 of additional literature. 

 WiNNERTZ: Beit. Monog. des Sciarinen, in Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch., 1867. 

 Walsh : 1st Rept. Ins. 111., 1868, pp. 18, 19 (of S. rnali); in Pract. Entomol., ii, 



1867, pp. 71. 72 (in potatoes ?causing scab). 

 Walsh-Riley : in Amer. Entomol., i, 1869, p. 186 (in rooms of dwelling). 

 Packard: Guide Study Insects, 1869, p. 386 (habits of larvte). 

 Glover: in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1872, pp. 115, 116, f. 5 (snake-worm 



and other spt^cies); MS. Notes Journ. — Dipt., 1S74 (habits, etc. , of 



several species). 

 Riley: in Cole. Rur. World, 1876, p. 230 (habits in congregating); in N, Y. 



Tribune, Dec. 4, 1878, p. 237 (habits); in Amer. Nat., xv, 1881, p. 150 



(food habits, yellow-fever fly). 

 Scudder: in Rept. Prog. Geolog. Surv. Can. (1876-1877) 1878, p. 457 {S. deper- 



dita, fossil); the same in Rept. U. S. Geolog. Surv. Terr., xiii, 1890, 



p. 586, and on p. 588, S. scopidi, fossil. 

 Hagen: in Psyche, iii, 1880, p. Ill (yellow-fever fly). 

 Comstock: in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1881, pp. 202-204, pi. xvii, (Sciara 



ocellaris). 

 Say: Compl. Writ. Lee. Ed., i, 1883, pp. 249, 250, 308 (description of 5 species); 



ii, pp. 10, 351, 352 (description of 3 species). 

 Saunders: Ins. Inj. Fruits, 1883, p. 136 (account of apple-midge). 

 Williston: in Kingsley's Stand. Nat, Hist.,ii, 1884, p. 408 (mention of S. 



viali and the snake-worm Sciara). 

 Forbes: 13th Rept. Ins. III., 18^4, pp. 57-59, pi. 4, figs. 5-9 (larvc^e); 18th Rept. 



do., 1894, pp. 19-21, pi. 3, figs. 3-7 (describes " black-headed corn- 

 maggot " in corn and hot-houses, in all stages). 

 Lintner: 5th Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1889, pp. 264, 265 (Sciara in wheat, S. mali, 



and the "army-worm" Sciara, European species, etc.); in Gardening 



for June 15, 1893, p. 313 (infesting a greenhouse, and of other species). 

 Riley-Howard: in Insect Life, iii, l."-90, p. 126 (larvge under pear-tree bark), 



iv, 1891, p. 115 (snake-worm), vi, p. 273 (yedow-fever fly). 

 Theobald: British Flies, 1892, pp. 107-112 (description and habits of 10 British 



species, synoptic table of 25 species). 

 Scudder: in Psyche, vi, 1892, p. 263 (larvee on snow in midwinter). 

 Smith: in Insect Life, vii, 1894, pp. 151, 153 (injurious to mushrooms). 

 IIOPKINS: in Insect Life, vii, 1894. p. 147 {Sciara sp. and Epiilapus causing 



potato scab); the same extended in Sp. Bull. 2 W. Va. Agr. Expt. 



Station, 1895, pp. 100-114, and in Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc, iii, 1895, pp. 



149-161 (detailed figures of Epidapua). 



