7-6 THE entomologist's RECOED. 



only five, viz., Roeselia pallipes, Fin., Tricholyga major, RucL, Ptilops 

 nigrita. Fin., Phytomyptera nitidiventris, Rnd., and Craspedothrix 

 vivipara, B. and B.. Dr. Wood (Ent. Mo. Mag.) is responsible for the 

 addition of four species, Callimyia elegantula, Fin., Agathomyia horeella, 

 Ztt., Homalomyia difficilis, Stein, and Fallaptera laetabilis, Lw., all 

 from Herefordshire. Austen, in the same journal, has added another 

 species of Erigone [E. pectinata, Girsch.), from Herefordshire, and deals 

 with the other species of the genus, and is also responsible for an 

 article dealing with the synonymy and life-history of Drusophila 

 melanagasiter, Mg. A further addition to the British list, is due to 

 Wesche, who found Ulidia nigripennis, Lw., in Kent. At a meeting of 

 the London Entomological Society, in March, Mr. Grimshaw exhibited 

 Hydrotaea tnberculata. End., a species not hitherto recorded as British, 

 and, at another meeting in October, Colonel Yerbury exhibited specimens 

 of a remarkable addition to the British Syrphidae, viz., Haiiuiier- 

 schmidtia ferruginea, Fin., taken by himself at Nethy Bridge, Scotland. 

 A system for indicating the position of the leg bristles in diptera was 

 suggested by Grimshaw [Ent. Mo. Mag.), and he also {Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist.) enumerated the dipterous fauna of the Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands ; a similar article on the fauna of the Flannan Isles appeared 

 in the same journal from the pen of Henderson. 



Dr. Chapman has contributed a few valuable notes on the life- 

 history of Xanthandrus comptus, Harris {Ent. Mo. Mag.), and J. A. Dell, 

 an exhaustive paper on the life- history and structure of Psychoda sex- 

 punctata {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.). 



In the Aphaniptera a new species, C'eratophylliis farreni, from 

 Suffolk and Berwickshire, has been described by Rothschild, and 

 Pulex cheopsis, Rothsch., has been found at Plymouth {Ent. Mo. Mag.). 



On the continent the amount of published work on the diptera has 

 been considerably below the average, volume iv of Kertesz' Catalogue 

 of Palaearctic Diptera, by Becker and Bezzi, being one of the most 

 important contributions. Bezzi has also published short papers on 

 the genus Systropus {Redia) and various Empidae {Ann. Mas. Hung.). 

 Becker has dealt with the diptera collected by the Belgian Antarctic 

 Expedition {Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.). Miss Ricardo {Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist.) has given notes on Palaearctic Tabani in the British Museum, 

 and short articles have been published by Herman on Asilidae {Berl. 

 Ent. Zeitschr.), by Kramer, on Sarcophaga {Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt.), by 

 Pandelle on Chilosia and Asilus {Rev. Ent.), and by Eichhofl" on 

 Xylophagus {L'Echange). Handlirsch has given a long obituary 

 notice of Prof. Brauer {Verh. Ges. Wien.). 



The Culicidae still continue to receive the lion's share of attention, 

 the following being a few of the more important contributions : — 

 Blanchard, Histoire NatureUe et Medicale des Moustiques, Paris, 673 pp., 

 316 figs. ; Goeldi, Para Mosquitoes Mem. Soc. Goeldi, 4to, 154 pp., 

 21 pis. ; Chanternesse et Borel, Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever, Paris, 

 100 pp. ; Dyar, " Synoptic Table of N. American Larvae of Mos- 

 quitoes," Journ. New York Ent. Soc; Thompson, " Alimentary Tract 

 of the Mosquito," Proc. Soc. Nat. Hist. Boston, 62 pp., 6 pis. ; Dye, 

 " Parasites of Culicidfe," Arch. Parasit., 77 pp. In addition to the 

 above, numerous articles have appeared from the pens of Grabham, 

 Theobald, Putton, Neveu-Lamaire, Eysell, Pressatt, Kulagin, Ludlow, 

 Goquillett, J. B. Smith, etc. 



