DIPTERA. 
BY 
E. C. Rye, P.Z.S., M.E.S. 
The Geneeal Subject. 
Beling, T. Beitrag zur Metamorphose der zweifliigeligeu Insecten. 
Arch. f. Nat. xli. 1, pp. 31-57. 
Describes the larvae, pupae, &c., of 15 species of Xylophagidce^ Taha- 
nidfBy Emjpidce^ Asilidce, Therevidce, Leptidce, Dolichopodidce, and Syr- 
phidce [infra]. 
Rondani, O. Muscaria exotica Musei civici Januensis observata ot 
distincta. Fragmentum iii. Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. pp. 421-464. 
Descriptions of species (including new genera) taken by the Marquis 
Doria & Dr. O. Beccari at Sarawak, Borneo, in 1865-1868. Outlines of 
parts of some species are given. 
West Galizia. A. Grzegorzek, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxv. pp. 7 & 8, adds 
species of Campylomyza, Catocha, Lestremia^ and Chironomus^ to his list 
of Diptera observed in the Sandez district [Zool. Rec. x. p. 414]. 
Dalmatia and Tyrol. Species described by J. Palm; Verh. z.-b. 
Wien, xxv. pp. 411 & 412. 
Cordova. Observations by Van der Wulp on a collection, chiefly Bom- 
hyliidcd, received from Weyenbergh, with indications of new species; 
Tijdschr. Ent. xviii. Versl. pp. xv.-xviii. 
On the question of the transport and inoculation of virus by flies ; 
J. P. Mdgnin, Paris : 1875, 8vo, 1 pi. (extr. from J. Anat. Phys., March, 
1875). Two cases, reported in the ‘ Bulletin g^n^ral de Thdrapeutique,’ 
June 15, 1875, discussed by A. LaboulbSne, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. 
pp. cxxix. & cxxx. 
parasitic Diptera found in Coccidce ; V. Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) V. pp. 358 & 363 (? Sphcerocera and Pipiza). 
Luminous Diptera near Lake Aral ; Wladimir Alenitzin, Tageblatt 
of the 48th meeting of German Naturalists p,nd Physicians at Graz, 
p. 150 {of. also Deutsche E. Z. 1875, p. 432). 
A previously unrecorded phase of hermaphroditism ; see Loew, Doli- 
chopodidce, infra, p. 473. 
