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ScHiNERj J. R. Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara 
um die Erde. Zoologisclier Theil. Diptera, pp. vi & 388, with 
4 plates, 1868. 
In this important work Schiner gives a list of all the species 
of Diptera brought home by the zoologists of the ^ Novara,^ and 
he justly calls attention to the great quantity of material be- 
longing to this usually neglected order, which was brought 
together and almost entirely collected by them. Under most 
of the families Schiner gives a list and brief discussion of the 
established genera, indicating those which he considers well 
founded, and remarking also in many instances upon their geo- 
graphical distribution. 
WiNNERTZ, Johann. Beitrag zu einer Monographie der Scia- 
rinen. Herausgegeben von der k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesell- 
schaft in Wien, pp. 187, 1 plate : 1867. 
In this elaborate memoir Winnertz furnishes us with a mono- 
graph of the European species of the SciarhuBf which he regards 
as exhibiting ” a type so different from that of the Myceto- 
philidjc that a union of these two groups must appear inad- 
missible.^^ 
B. Papers published in Journals. 
Uamianitsch, R. Ueber die Metamorphose des Xylophagus 
ater (Fab.). Verhandl. zooL-bot. Gesellscli. in Wien, 
Band xviii. pp. 117-118. 
Fedtsciienko, a. P. Matcrialien zu einer entomologischen 
Fauna der Gouvernements des Moskauer Lelirbezirks. 
Verzeichniss der zweifliiglichen Inseckten. Nachrichten 
der kais. Gesellscli. der Liebhaber der Naturkunde, Band iv. 
Moscow, 1868. 
This paper, which the Recorder has not seen, but which is 
noticed in Horfe Soc. Ent. Ross. v. Rev. Bibl. pp. iv-xii, con- 
tains a catalogue of 1227 species of Diptera found in the dis- 
trict of Moscow, with statements of the times and localities of 
their occurrence. The author also institutes a comparison be- 
tween the Diptera of the Moscow district and those of Sweden, 
and gives a tabular analysis of the monthly distribution of the 
families. The work, and especially the more general part of it, 
is not favourably spoken of in the ^ Horse Entomologicae.^ It is 
written in Russian. 
Frauenfeld. (See Insecta.^^) 
Gerstacker, a. Systematische Uebersicht dcr bis jetzt be- 
kannt gewordenen Mydaiden Latr.). Stettiner 
entom. Zeitung, 1868, pp. 65-103, plate 1. 
Guyon, — . llistoire Naturelle et Medicale de la Chique 
{Phynchoprion penetrans j Oken), Insecte parasite des re- 
