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Walker, F. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. First Series. 
London ; 1874, 8vo, pp. 1-37. 
A catalogue of names, Pulicidca — Rhyphidce. The ‘ Notes ’ consist of 
five observations, referring chiefly to the views of other authors. If 
intended to be of use as the commencement of a general catalogue of 
Diptera, references to descriptions should have been added. “ The two- 
winged fly “ is included in 48 families,” which are mentioned in the 
introductory remarks. 
The same author, Ent. vii. pp. 36, 100, 126, 147, 196, 219, et seqq., 
under the title “ Notes on the Wing-bones of the Two- winged Flies,” 
prints ‘ from the MSS. of A. H. Haliday ’ observations on the scheme of 
wing neuration in the Diptera, and gives figures of the wing in various 
genera {Diadocidia — Uirmoneura) from Haliday’s drawings, adding some 
general remarks. He also publishes a few vague observations under the 
heading “The Families of Diptera.”'—^ Family 1, Pulicidic\ 2, Myceto- 
pUilidue '^ ; Canad. Ent. vi. pp. 11 & 12. 
WuLP, F. M. VAN DER. Dipterologische Aant6ekeningen. No. 4. 
Tijdschr. Ent. xvii. [ser. 2, ix.] pp. 102-148, pi. viii. 
Continued from vol. vi. (ser. 2) of the same work [Zool. Rec. viii. 
p. 386]. Discusses the Dutch Cecidomyidce, Mycetophilidm, Bihionidce, 
Chironomidie, and Tipaluhe. New genera aud species are charactorizied. 
Notes on Scotch Diptera (Empis hilineata, Lw., Jlilara nitidula, Zett., 
Nemotelus notatus, Zett., Phyllodromia vocatoria. Fall., Sympycnus nigri- 
tibialis, Zett., and Hpilomyia fallax, L., new to Britain ) ; G. H, Verrall, 
Scot. Nat. ii. pp. 199-202. W. A. Vice, tom. cit. pp. 274-276. 
Tipula truncorum, Meig., Echinomyia cenea, Stiig., Cynomyia alpina, 
Zett. (? = C. niortuorum, L.), and Calliphora gramlandica, Z., recorded 
from East Greenland; A. Gerstiicker, in “Die zweite Deutsche Nord- 
polarfahrt,” ii. pp. 405 & 406 (notes by A. Pansch). 
Canadian species. Stray notes by B. R. Morris ; Canad. Ent. vi. 
pp. 176-178. 
Notes on ordinary noxious American Diptera, with remedies ; T. Glover, 
Rep. Comm. Agric. 1872, pp. 123-138, figs. 9 -26. 
Colorado. Report on Diptera collected by W. L. Carpenter in 1873 ; 
C. R. Osten-Sacken, in Hayden’s Ann. Rep. of U. S. Geol. & Geogr. 
Survey of the Territories for 1873, Washington : 1874, pp. 561-564 (one 
new genus). Nearly all the species identified are already known from 
British N. America. 
Larvae of flies in living human body ; Portchinsky, Bull. Ent. Ross. x. 
p. xiv. In pustules on the skin of a child ; Nat. Canad. vi. pp. 264-266. 
Flies parasitic on man ; W. W. Spicer, Sci. Goss. 1874, pp. 32-35, 
figs. 27-31. 
Parasites on aculeate Hymenoptera. Antliomyia inanis. Fall., and 
Phora pulicaria, Fall., on Vespa germanica ; Meigenia homhivora, V. d. W., 
on Bombus agrorum ; Zodion cinereum, F., on Ilylceus A-strigatus ; and V 
