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ZOOLOGICAL LITEILiTURlS. 
his Xylophagidae to the Ccenomyidae. The Xylophagidae (/. c. p. 73) as re- 
stricted include, according to Schiner, only 24 described species, of four of 
which the habitat is unknown. The remainder are distributed, 7 in Europe , 
11 in America, and 3 in Asia, and Africa and Australia possess 1 each. To 
his Coenomyida) (/. c. pp. 74, 75) Scliiner refers the genera Cimomyia (Lat.), 
Chiromyza (Wied.) = Xmomoryha (Macq.), Arthropcas (Loew), Camura 
(Bigot), Ilylorus (Phil.), Inopus (Walk.). These genera are founded on 
only 12 described species, of which 1 is European, 0 American, 3 Australian, 
and 1 Asiatic j 1 of unknown origin. Schiner describes 1 new species of 
Ccenura. The Acanthomerid£e (/. c. pp. 77, 78) include only the genera 
Raphiorhynchus and Acanthomera (Wied.), as to the distinctness of which 
Schiner is doubtful. The former is said to be identical with Pantophthalmus 
(Thunb.). The group includes 12 described species, all South American. 
Schiner describes a new Columbian species. 
Damianitsch describes the transformations of Xylophayus ater (Fab.), 
the larva of wliich he found under the bark of the alder. The larva is 
figured. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 117. 
Xylophayus ater (Fab.). Frauenfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. 
p. 166) confirms Drewsen’s statement that the larva of this species is rapacious. 
Rxaireta, g. n., Schiner, Beise der Novara, ZooL, Dipt. p. 71 = Diphysa 
(Macq.). Sp. Xylophayus spiniyer (Wied.) ; E. lonyicorniSj sp. n., 1. c. p. 73, 
Chili. 
Reris ccerulescens, sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 71, Columbia. 
Actina eleyans, sp. n., Schiner, L c. p. 71, Chili. 
Camura albopwictata^ sp. n.-, Schiner, 1. c. p. 77, Chili. 
Acanthomera frauenfeldi, sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 78, Columbia. 
TABANIDiE. 
ScHTNBB (Beise der Novara, Dipt. pp. 79, 80) remarks upon the general 
constitution and geographical distribution of the insects of this family. He 
states that it includes 1122 previously described species, ‘of which 117 live 
in Em’opo, 616 in America, 148 in Asia, 154 in Africa, and 116 in Australia, 
whilst the native countries of 72 species are unknown. These species are 
referred by him to 23 genera. Ileptatoma (Me\^.) = IIexatoma (Meig.) j 
Tanyylossa — Panyonia (Lat.),- Lepiselaya (Macq.)=//nr5-?<s (Perty) ; 
Mesomyia and Ectenopsis (Macq.)=iS«7i!ms (Meig.)j Philochile (Wied.) = 
Panyonia (Lat.) ; and Thcrioplectes (Zell.) cannot bo separated from Tahanus. 
Panyonia fulvijyes (Loew ). Loew notices the characters of some Ciliciau 
specimens, which he refers to this species (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1868, p. 371). 
Ilexatoma. Marno (Sitzuugsber. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1868, pp. 74- 
76) describes the metamorphoses of a species of this genua, the larvm of 
which he found in dirty water, with those of Eristalis and Culex. The pupa- 
state is passed in damp ground. 
New genera and species : — 
Stibasoma, g. n., Schiner, Beise der Novara, Zook, Dipt. p. 93. Allied to 
Tahanus. Sp. T. theotcenia, fulvohirtuSy and tristis (^'^ied.). 
Apocampta, g. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 96. Allied to Panyonia. Sp. A. niyra^ 
sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 96, Sydney. 
Eiclisaj g. n., Schiner, /. c. p. 101. Allied to Mycteromyia (Phil.). Sp. 
