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cand genera discussed ; and it will be impossible to reproduce the 
numerous observations scattered throughout its pages, especially as in 
many instances they are merely incidental suppositions. Many new 
genera and species are characterized ; and additions and corrections are 
made, referring to former parts. The figm^es on the plates represent, with 
one exception, a wing only of each species. 
Osten-Sacken, C. E. Sm. misc. Coll. No. 256. Appendix, 
pp. vii.-xiii. 
Additions to vol. iv. of the above-mentioned monographs of North 
American Diptera, referring to the Pty diopter idee and Limnobiidce. 
RoNDANT, Camillo. Muscaria exotica Musei Civici Januensis 
observata et distincta. Ann. Mus. Genov. iv. pp. 282-300;, 
woodcuts. 
Comprises descriptions of new genera and species : the first part 
referring to the captures of Dr. Beccari and the Marquis Antinori in 
Abyssinia, and the second to those of the Marquis Doria in various 
Eastern localities. 
Velzen : captures by Everts, Tidjschr. Ent. (2) viii. Versl. p. xxx. 
Altvater Mountains : notice of species observed by J. P. E. F. Stein ; 
S. E. Z. xxxiv. p. 241. 
Amurland species mentioned by F. Walker, Ent. vi. p. .328. Turkestan 
species : id. op, cit. p. 388. 
F. Walker, Ent. vi. p. 327, refers 3 species of blood-sucking flies 
mentioned by Stanley as occurring in Central Africa to Tabanus, Stomoxys, 
and Glossina longipalpis. Walk. 
Flies hybernating in Russian bath-houses, revive with artificial eleva- 
tion of temperature. D. Goubareff, C. R.lxxvi. 785. 
On diffusion of germs of disease by flies : Das Ausland, xlv. (1872), 
p. 624. 
Cecidomyiid.^]. 
The " Hessian-fly " in Canada has either died out, or is so reduced in 
numbers as to give no trouble : J. J. Murphy, Nature, viii. p. 202. 
Asphondi/Ha ulicis. J. W. H. Traill, Scot. Nat. ii. p. 172, proposes this 
name for an (undescribed) new species reared from galls on Ulex 
europ(Eus. 
Asphondylia ononidis, Loew, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxiii. p. 138, pi, ii. c, 
figs. 1-6, Pressbaum (all stages: gall on Ononis spinosal) A. cytisi, 
Frauenfeld, op. cit. p. 186, on Cytisus auf^triacus, Neusiedl : spp. nn. 
CecAdomyia {Diplosis) buxi, sp. n., Laboulbene, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
iii. p. 32. All stages fully described and figured, Z. c. pp. 313-326, pi. ix. 
The species was apparently first observed by Audouin : ojy. cit. Bull, 
p. ccxxxiv. 
Diplosis schineri^ sp. n., Frauenfeld, I. c. p. 184, Miramar [? = buxi, 
Lab.]. 
