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very smooth. There is no determinate circular areola to the 
inner peridium and the mouth is stellately lacerate or sometimes 
amere slit or puncture. The nearest relative would appear to 
G. bovista Klotsch, from which it differs in several particulars ; 
‘itbelongs to the same section, the Erarcolati, of Dr. De Toni’s 
monograph.— A. P. Morgan, Preston, Ohio. 
: ENTOMOLOGY.: 
Observations of Portchinski on Flies which, in their 
Larva cause Diseases among Men and Animals.— 
Baron Osten Sacken gives? an account of some publications of 
Mr. Portchinski, from which we extract the following, as of gen- 
eral interest : 
_ For many years past Mr. Joseph Portchinski (at present sec- 
‘lary of the Entomological Society in St. Petersburg) has been 
“ung a great deal of time to the study of the life-habits of 
 “mivorous and coprophagous larvz of Muscidz, and several 
Tg publications on that subject are due to his pen already. 
a . š ` . : 
remained less known than they deserve. Several of them, 
er, have appeared in German in the Hore Soc. Ent. Ross., 
two of these are on the subject indicated in the heading to 
a ract, 
The Principal result which science owes to these papers is the 
thcidation of the history of Sarcophila wohlfahrti as a danger- 
but hitherto unrecognized enemy of men and animals, the 
European Substitute of the celebrated Lucilia macellaria (syn. 
i hominivorax 
Vermibus per Nares excretis”) describing a case where peculiar 
‘Inthe nose of an old man produced intolerable headache, 
of America. In 1768, Dr. Johann August 
d by Prof. J. H. Comstock, Cornell University, Ithaca, 
cations, books for notice, etc., should be sent. 
3. Zeitschrift, Bd. xxxi. p. 17. 
