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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Diplosis (Loew) j Phyllophaga (Rond.) = Asphondylia (Loew) j Angelinia 
(Rond.) = JTormomym (Loew) ; Porricondyla (Rond.) = (Loew) j 
JVinnertzia (Rond.) = Asynapta (Loew)j Oziorhincus (Rond.) = Clino- 
rhyncha (Loew) j Micromyia ('Rond.) = Ca7npylomyza (Meig.) ; Mimosciara 
(Rond.) = Lestremia (Meig.) ; Macrostyla ( Winn.) = (llal.) j Dirhiza 
and Cecidogona (Loew) probably belong respectively to Epidosis and Xes- 
tremia. The genera Psychophoina, Spaniotoma^ Pentaneui'a, and 'I'etraphora 
(Phil.) are referred by Schiner to the Chironomid£e. Schiner remarks upon 
the geographical distribution of the known species of these genera, amount- 
ing in all to 348, of which only 30 are extra-European. The ‘ Novara’s ’ 
voyage furnished 12 new species of this family, of nearly all which Fraun- 
feld was able to observe the metamorphoses. 
Frauenfeld (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 162) notices the 
metamorphoses of Asphondylia verhasci (Vill.) and Cecidomyia luthyri 
(Frauenfeld). 
Cecidomyia destructor is figured, with its transformations, in Amer. Na- 
tural. ii. p. 163, fig. 1. 
On the Wheat-midge, see Walsh, Pract. Entom. ii. pp. 99-101. 
A species of this family is considered by Walsh to be the cause of swell- 
ings in the joints of straw; its larva is hence known as the ^‘joint-worm” 
(Pract. Entom. i. pp. 10-12). It is afterwards identified by Walsh with 
Cecidomyia destructor (1. c. p. 37). 
Sanborn notices a larva belonging to this family found feeding in com- 
panies of from 30 to 40 on the pitch exuding from wounds in the bark of 
Pinus rigidus (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 93). 
Kidd describes the gall of Cecidomyia idmarice (Bremi). Ent. M. Mag. 
iv. p. 233. 
New species : — 
Heteropeza transmarina, Schiner, Reise der Novara, Zool. Dipt. p. 6, pi. 1. 
fig. l,‘,Sydney. 
Lasioptera hryoni<^, Schiner, 1. c. p. 6, Madras ; L. lignicola, Schiner, 1. c. 
p. 6, L. carhonaria, Schiner, ibid., and L. salvicc, Schiner, 1. c. p. 7, Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Cecidomyia frauenfeldi, Schiner, 1. c. p. 7, Sj^dney; C. capensis, Schiner, 
ibid., C. deformans, Schiner, 1. c. p. 8, Cape of Good Hope. 
Cecidomyia aceris, Shimer, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 281, Illinois. 
Asphondylia rubescens, Schiner, 1. c. p. 8, and A. Qnesemhrianthemi, Schiner, 
1. c. p. 9, Cape of Good Hope. 
Campylomyza sidneyensis, Schiner, 1. c. p. 9, Sydney. 
MvCETOPHILIDiE. 
Schiner (Reise der Novara, Dipt. pp. 9-10) remarks upon the genera be- 
longing to this family, and upon its geographical distribution. He refers 
Molohrus (Lat.), . Planetes (Walk.), and Planetella (Westw.) to Sciara, and 
states that AgaricoUa (R\\W.)=Acnemia (Winn.) ; Pachypalpus (Staeg.) 
z^Cordyla (Meig.); Macroneura (flnc({.) = Diadocidia (Rutlie); Messala 
(Curt.) = Roh7opAi7a (Meig.) ; Symmerus (Walk.) -|- Centrocnemis (Phil.) = 
Plesiastina (Winn.) ; ^nd Macrorrhyncha (Winn.) —Asindulum (Lat.). Schiner 
accepts 48 genera, which he arranges under two primary groups, Sciarina 
