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Schiner (Dipt. Austr.) to a group which hag been distinguished by Frauen- 
feld under the name of Sympheromyia. Schiner accepts 12 genera as well 
founded in this family. They include 146 described species, of which 67 
are European, 12 Asiatic, 2 African, 68 American, and 4 Australian. Of 3 
species the origin is unknown. 
Schiner gives a table of the species of the genus Ptiolina, including his 
2 new ones. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 912, note. 
Hilarimorpha singularis (Schin.). Schiner notices this species, which 
occurred in 1868 in great numbers in the locality where it was originally 
discovered. L. c. pp. 909, 910. 
JYiolina phraymitophila, sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 910, and P. calamodyteSj 
sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 911, near Klostornenburg. 
Chrysopilti. Schiner (lleise der Novara, Zool., Dipt.) describes the follow- 
ing new species of this genus : — C. caloptera^ p. 197, Rio de Janeiro ; C. ame- 
ricana, ibid., South America ; C. cmisanquinea (sic), p. 198, Rio de Janeiro j 
C. hrorafAi, ibid., South America; C. elegans, ibid., Columbia; C. argyro- 
phora, p. 199, South America; C. insularis, ibid., Nicobars (TeUnschong). 
EmPIDtE. 
Schiner (Reise der Novara, Zool., Dipt. pp. 200-202) revises the genera 
of this familj^, which he considers has been improperly divided into three by 
Loew. He admits 6 subfamilies in it, namely, Hyhotince, OcydrominfS, Em- 
pincp, Hemtrodromincs, and TacliydromintB. With regard to the previously 
proposed genera, of which he gives a list, he states that Macrostomiis (Wied.) 
=■ Phampliomyia (Meig.) ; Acromyia (13on.)=/7y6a5 (Fab.) ; Siciis (Lat.)= 
Tachydromia (Fab.) ; Plntyptera (Meig.) and Platypterygia (Steph.) are to 
be combined with Empis', Tachypeza (Meig.) = Tachydromia] Trichina 
(Meig.) = Microphorns (Macq.) ; Paramesia (Macq.), Wiedemannia (Zett.), and 
Jlelcodromia (Hal.), belong to Clinocera (Meig.); Xiphidicera (Macq.) = 
(Edalea (Meig.) ; Anthalia (Zett.) cannot be distinguished from Euthyneura 
(Macq.); Mierocera(Leii.)=Sciodromia (Hal.); Microsania (Leit.)= CyHoma 
(Meig.); and Leptosceles (Hal.) = Ardcq?ie?-a (Macq.). Certain genera pro- 
posed by Bigot and Rondani in analytical tables are regarded by Schiner as 
insufficiently founded : thus he provisionally refers Chiromantis, Mantipeza, 
Polydromia, Lcjndromin, and Microdromia (Big.) to Ilemcrodromia (Meig.); 
Phoro.rypha (Rond.) and Grossopalpus (Big.) to Plaiypalpvs (Macq.) ; Eryo- 
dromia (Rond.) to Tachydromia] and Microcyrta (Big.) to Cyrtoma. With 
regard to the asserted identity of Syncches (Walk.) and Picrm^pilns (Rond.), 
Schiner expresses doubts. Lampromyia (Macq.) belongs to the Leptidse. 
The described species of this family are, according to Schiner, 822 in 
number, and of them 497 inhabit Europe, 13 Asia, 30 Africa, 271 America, 
and 6 Australia ; the origin of 6 species is unknown. The apparent predo- 
minance of the family in Europe is to bo accounted for partly, according to 
Schiner, by the difliculty of collecting the species, owing to their peculiar 
habits. 
IjOew (Berl. ent. Zeitsch. 1868, pp. 168-176) discusses the characters of 
Empis albicans (Meig.) and of a new species described by him. He refers to 
their likeness to Pachymeria (Meig.), and remarks that they belong to that 
genus, if taken in Meigen’s sense ; but regards them as properly forming a 
new generic group, the establishment of which he declines for the present. 
