196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll 



Chobaut, A. — Observations sur un Diptere vivant sur les Ateuchus. — 

 Bull. Soc. Ent, France, 1896, p. 166. 



Confirms the observations of Lesne. 



Bloesch, Ch. — Physapodes se sont transporter par les guepes. — Feuille 

 Jeun. Natur. (3) vol. XXV, p. 75-76, (1896). 



Slosson, Mrs. A. T. — Singular habit of a Cecidomyid — Ent. News, 1896. 

 p. 238. 



A Cecidomyiid attached to Chrysopa; suggested that the 

 cecidomyiid is predaceous on plant lice, that are also preyed 

 upon by the Chrysopa larvae. 



Cummings, H. A. — Parasites of the house-fly. Science Gossip, 1899. — 

 (Amer. Mo. Micr. Journ., Oct., 1899, p. 318.) 



Notes that in Bermuda a small red ant is carried by the fly. 



Kertesz, K. — Dipterologisches aus New^ Guinea. Termes. Fiizetek. 

 XX, p. 611-613, 1897. 



Small flies riding on a large one. 



Biro, L. — Commensalismus bei Fliegen. — Termes. Fiizetek. XXII, p. 

 200, 1899. (Also Rovartani Lapok, 1897, p. 129). 



Two Agromyza minutissima carried by an Ommatius minor, 

 in New Guinea. 



Mik, J. — Merkwiirdige Beziehung zwischen Desmometopa m.- atrum 



Meig. aus Europa vmd Agvoiuyza »iinutissiiiia V. d. \\'ulp. aus 

 Nev^' Guinea. — Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 146-151. 



Found 13 specimens of a small fly {Desmometopa {Agro- 

 myza) m-afriim) attached to a dead worker bee, that was still 

 fresh. Reviews papers by Biro and Kertesz. 



Warner, IV. V. — Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V. p. 308-309, 1903. 



Exhibited specimen of Scelio {Serphidae) clinging by jaw* 

 to the side of a grasshopper, Dichromorpha viridis. The 

 genus Scelio is parasitic on the eggs of grasshoppers. 



Schulz, W. A. — Dipteren als Ektoparasiten an sitdamerikanischer Tag- 

 faltern. — Zool. Anzeiger, XXVIII, p. 42-43, 1904. 



Notes Phoridae attached to butterflies of genera MorpJio 

 and Helicopsis in Brazil. 



