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JEi'istalis foveifrona^ Buenos Ayres j sinuata, Sydney j temporalis^ Cali- 
fornia j veniralisy China ; spp. nn., Thoms. L c. pp. 488-491. 
Syritta armipes, Cape of Good Hope j spiniyerella, St. Helena : spp. nn., 
Thoms. 1. c. pp. 602^ 603. 
Paragua crenulatuSf sp. n.^ Thoms. 1. c. p. 603, China. 
Orthoprosopa hinotata^ sp. n., Thoms. 1. c. p. 492, Sydney. 
Mixogaster aphritinus, sp.n., Thoms. /. c. p. 491, Sydney. 
PiPUNCULlDiE. 
Thomson, Opus. Ent. pp. 109-124, gives a review of the Swedish species 
of Pipunculus, of which he considers Cephalops, Fall., and Chalarus, Wlk., 
to he suhgenera. He describes in Latin 25 species, 3 of which he considers 
new to science. 
Pipunculus abseissus, armatus, China, spp. nn., Thoms. Eugen. Resa, pp. 613, 
614 (1868). 
Pipunculus xanihopuSf terminaliSf pulchripeSy Sweden, spp. nn., Thoms. 
Opusc. Ent. pp. 111-117. 
PLATYPEZIDiE. 
Bebgbnstamm, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xx. pp. 37, 38, Taf. iii. a, describes the 
metamorphoses of Platypeza holosericea^ Meig. 
CoNOPIDiE. 
Hbnsel, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 136, adds C. signatus to the list of species found 
near Berlin. 
Conops claviventris, sp. n., Thoms. Eugen. Resa, p. 614 (1868), Sydney. 
Myopa conjuncta, sp. n., Thoms. 1. c. p. 615, California. 
MuSCIDiE. 
The arrangement of this family being still in a very unsettled state, the 
Recorder has thought it best to follow the subfamilies marked out in Schiner’s 
Catalogue of European Diptera. The only alterations adopted are a reversal 
of their order, as agreed to by Schiner himself in Verb. z.-b. Wien, xviii. ; 
and for temporary convenience the Ortalince include the genera arranged 
under that family by Loew. 
It will be most convenient to notice here two insects described by Loew 
in 1870, of which the Recorder has not seen the original descriptions 5 and 
as the genera appear to be new, he cannot refer them to theii* proper sub- 
families. They are described in Loew’s paper on Diptera from Turkestan in 
Nachr. Ges. Mosc., and are 
Apostrophus suspectuSf no. 27, and 
Anacampta robusta^ no. 29. 
Ocypterin<2. 
Lophosia setigera, sp. n., Thoms. Eugen. Resa, p. 527 (1868), California. 
Tachinin(B, 
Weyenburgh, Tijd. Ent. (2) v. p. 201-206, T. 8 , gives a full life-history 
of Meigenia bornbivora, V. d. Wulp. 
