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Syrphide. 
ScHiNER (Reise der Novara, Zool., Dipt. pp. 339-340) notices the synonymy 
of the following genera of this family: — Syrphus inch (Fab.) 
and Lasiophthicus (Rond.) ; JEristalis (Fab.) inch Cyphipelta (Big.), Senaspis 
and rriomcriis (Macq.), and Simoidcs (Loew) ; Ccria (Foh.) = SphivnnorjyJia 
(Rond.) ; Volucella (Geoff.) = Ornidia (Le P. & Serv.) and Pterocera (Macq.) j 
Mihsia = Sphixea (Rond.) ; Sphecomyia (Lat.)= Trysenhausia (Gorsky) ; 
Hdojdulm (Meig.), inch Lejops and 3fyatliropa (Rond.) ; 3Iallota (Meig.) = 
Zdicrdcdtia (Rond.); Sinlomyia {Me\^.) = Tem7iosioma (Le P. <fe Serv.) and 
Calliprohola (Rond.) ; 3Iicrodon (Meig.), inch Aphritis (Lat.) and Dimeraspis 
(Newm.) ; Syriita (Le P. & Serv.)= Coprina (Zett.) ; Plocota (Le P. & Serv.) 
=Dasyimjia (Egger) ; Didea (Macq.) = ^mc« (Meig.); Megaspis (Macq.), 
inch Dolichomerm (Macq.); Orthoneura (Macq.) = (Rond.); ' 
3lyolepta (^Qy^m..')~Xylotceja (Rond.); Melithreptiis (^OQyj) — Spli<Broplioria 
(Macq.; ; Chrysochlaniys (Fon3.)~ Ferdinand ea (Rond.) ; Pipijella (Rond.) 
=Ileringia (Rond.). The total number of described species of Syrphidae is 
1539, of which 680 inhabit Europe, 189 Asia, 132 Africa, 620 America, and 
63 Australia. Of 59 species the native country is unknown. 
Rondani (Atti Soc. Itah Sci. Nat. xi. pp. 22-30) describes numerous 
Italian species of this family, and amongst them several described by Palma 
in a memoir published in the Annali dell’ Accad. degli Aspirant! Natural. 
(Naples) for 1804, which the Recorder has not seen. These species are 
3Ierodon ohscuripennis (Palma), p. 22; 31. annidatus (Palma), ibid.; Platy- 
eheirus pulchellus (Palma), p. 20; Syrplms affinis (Palma), ibid.; S. hisi- 
niiatus (Palma), ibid. ; S.fuscus (Palma), p. 27 ; S. siimatus (Palma), ibid. ; 
CJie.ihsia hrnchyptera (Palma), p. 31 ; C. violaceozonata (Palma), ibid. ; and 
Paragm intermedins (Palma), p. 65 : all from Naples and its vicinity. 
VEiiuALTi publishes (Ent. M. Mag. v. pp. 7, 8) notes on five species of the 
genus Syrplms^ rccentl}’^ detected by him in England. 
Sanborn describes and figures the larva and pupa-case of 3Iicrodon glohosus 
(Fab.). Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 90. 
Cheilosia scutellata (Fall.). Frauenfeld (Verb, zooh-bot. Ges. in Wien, 
xviii. pp. 101, 102) describes the larva of this species from Polyporus. 
The pupa of an Eristalis has been found in brine at salt-works in Illinois. 
Packard in Amer. Natural, ii. p. 278, fig. 6. 
Salpingogastcr, g. n., Schiner, Reise der Novara, Zooh, Dipt. p. 344. Allied 
to Amathia. Sp. S. pygophora, sp. n., Schiner, 1. c, p. 344, South America ; • 
S. maetda, sp. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 345, Chili ; S. niger, sp. n., Schiner, ibid., 
South America. 
New species : — 
Bacha. Schiner (Reise der Novara, Zool., Dipt.) describes the following 
new species of this genus : — B. gigantea, 1. c. p. 340, B. hrevipennis, 1. c. 
p. 341, B. rngosifrons, 1. c. ibid., B. pilipes, 1. c. p. 342, B. phceoptera, 
ibid., B. livida, 1. c. p. 343, South America; B. Schiner, ibid., 
Brazil and Columbia. 
Ocyptamns p>roximns, Schiner, 1. c. p. 340, Brazil, 
3Jelithreptus australensis, Schiner, I c. p. 347, Sydney. 
3Iesogramma. Schiner describes the following new species of this genus : 
—AT. insignis, I c. p. 347, 3f. hieroglyphica, 1. c. p. 348, 31. confvsa, 1. c. 
