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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Loew, in some supplementary remarks on the species allied to Empis albi- 
cans (Berl. ent. Zeitsch. 1868, pp. 387-393), corrects several errors into which 
he had fallen, and especially states that he described as the $ of E. phccno- 
metis specimens belonging; to a nearly allied new species, here named E. 
eumera. 
Empis nitida (Meig.). I^oew (Berl. ent. Zeitsch. 1868, pp. 231-240) dis- 
cusses the characters of this species, referred by Meigen to Pachymeriay 
but which he regards as forming, with E. truncata (Meig.), E. lucida (Zett.), 
and two new species, a peculiar group of the genus Empis. All the species 
are characterized. 
New species : — 
Ilybos pilosus, Schiner, Reise der Novara, Zool., Dipt. p. 202, and II. stig- 
maticus, Schiner, ibid., Columbia; II. sydneyensis, Schiner, 1. c. p. 203, 
Sydney. 
Empis. Schiner describes the following new species of this genus : — E. 
micanSf 1. c. p. 204, South America ; E. .xanthopyga, ibid., Sydney ; E. 
colutnbi, 1. c. p. 205, Columbia ; E. pachymerina^ ibid., and E. dolichopodina^ 
ibid.. South America. 
Empis phcxnomeris^ Loew, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1868, p. 172, Sarepta ; E. 
monticola, Loew, 1. c. p. 233, Alps ; E. longipennis^ Loew, 1. c. p. 239, Western 
Siberia; E. eumera ^ Loew, I, c. p. 388, Sarepta; E. curvipes, Loew, 1. c. p, 391. 
Sarepta. 
Ililara vaneUus, Schiner, 1. c. p. 200, Columbia ; II. cupensis, Schiner, ibid.. 
Cape of Good Hope. 
DoLICHOPODiDiE. 
Schiner (Reise der Novara, Zool., Dipt. pp. 206-208), in discussing the 
described genera of this family, remarks upon some of them as follows : — 
Satyra (Meig.)=i)oh'c7^^^ws (Lat.) ; Leptopus (Fall.) omd Sciapus (Zell.) = 
P6*«7o;?ws(Meig.); /iy^7rocA^^s(Fall.) = Po/;^/ii/r£>/95(Meig.)-l- P7iaj^7imm(Meig.); 
Anglearia (C&xWqv) maybe united with Porpliyrops Orthobates (Wahlb.), 
Anorthrus (Stneg.)f and Tcechobates (HoX.^^Medetefrus (Meig.); Ammobates 
Tacky trechtis (Stann.) ; Peritkinus (llsl.) =■ Phaphiutn ) Camp- 
tosceles QlsA.')=Campsionemus (Walk.); Plectropus (jLliil.) — Neuriyotia 
(Rond.); Aphrozeta (Perr.) = JP/f7rojo7mrws (Fall.); Achantipodus (Rond.)=: 
Gymnoptei'nus (Loew); Anaplomerus (Rondi.) =Liancalus (Loew); ludo- 
vicius (Rond.) =;.IIaUericerus (Rond.). With regard to Bigot’s numerous 
genera, separated from Psilopus, Schiner is doubtful, but thinks that some of 
them will prove to be well founded. Ilercostomus (Loew) he regards as 
not well established; Eutarsus and Nematoproctus (Loew) are united re- 
spectively witli Neurigona and DicqthoruSf the former being regarded as in- 
sufficiently characterized. Hydatostega (Phil.) = >S'ce//a5 (Loew); Xipkan- 
drium (Loew) belongs to Phaphium, and Orthoceratium (Schr.) to DoU- 
chopus. Forty genera are regarded by Schiner as well founded. They in- 
clude 822 described species, distributed as follows: — In Europe 399, in Asia 
66, in Africa 40, in America 296, and in Australia 17 ; of four species the 
habitat is not known. Of the Australian species, 16 belong to Psilopus, 
whilst the European Psilopinae only number 19, and that group seems to be 
peculiarly an exotic one, the proportion of European to exotic species 
being 19 : 103. 
