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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
taken by him in the country surrounding the Christianiafjord, including cha- • 
racters of the sexes of several known species. 
Girard communicates a note on the production of serious gangrenous ' 
symptoms by the bite of some unrecorded species of fly. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1866, p. xi. 
n. Weijenbergii notices the occurrence of yellow larvae (Dipterous ?) in 
wounds of the flesh of living toads. Tijdschr. voor Ent. 1866, pp. 94-95. 
Cecidomyid.®. 
Me INERT (Naturli. Tidsskr. 3rd ser. vol. iii. pp. 1-14) refers 
to various points connected with the natural history of Miastor 
metraloaSj and discusses the opinions expressed by Schiner, Sie- 
bold, and Loew as .to its systematic position, and those of 
Leuckart on the physiology of its gemmiparous larval repro- 
duction. Fie also characterizes a new genus and species, the 
larva of which is also gemmiparous. 
Diplosis. B. Wagner has published (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 65-96 & 
169-187) a detailed account of two species of this genus hitherto confounded 
under the name of Tipiila tritici QLuhy^. He describes the second species as 
D. aurantiaca. The paper includes a discussion of the literature of the sub- 
ject, descriptive of the insects in all their stages and of their mode of life, 
indications of their parasites, remedial measures, &c. These details are illus- 
trated in the accompanying plate (Taf. iii.), of which figs. 1-16 relate to the 
natural history of D. tritici. 
Cecidomyia destructor is not noticed as injurious in Austria in 1866. 
Frauenfeld, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 642. 
Frauenfeld notices the occurrence of a Cecidomyia in the distorted flowers 
of Teucrium scordium. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 556. 
Bondani publishes a note on the Ilymenopterous parasites of Cecidomyia 
fi'umentaria. Archivio Canestrini, iv. pp. 189-191. (See also ^Record,’ 
1865, p. 639.) He describes them as 3 new species, Epimeces canestriniiy 
Platyg aster generalii, and Lassthia litigiosa, the last the supposed Methoca of 
Generali and Canestrini. 
Oligarces, g. n., Meinert, Z. c. p. 13 ( $ ). Haustellum nullum ; palpi nulli. 
Tarsi 2-articulati. Antennae moniliformes, ll-articulatse. Alee costis binis 
vel ternis abbreviatis, evanescentibus. Sp. O. paradoxus, sp. n., Meinert, 1. c. 
p. 14, bred from larvae living under the bark of poplars. 
Diplosis aurantiaca, sp. n., B. Wagner, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 82, Taf. 3. 
figs. 17-22 (with details and larva, see ante). 
MYCETOPIIILIDiE. 
Ditomyia fasciata (Meig.). Frauenfeld describes the larva and pupa of 
this species, found by him in Polyporus sqiiamosus. Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 
in Wien, xvi. p. 200. 
Pseudosciara, g. n., Schiner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 930. 
Allied to Sciara; ocelli 2; antennae 12-jointed, joints of flagellum long; 
' palpi 4-jointed, last 2 joints long and slender; tibiae with large spurs; medi- 
astinal vein rudimentary, subcostal reaching the margin far beyond the 
. middle, discoidal distinctly hairy, forked beyond the termination of the sub- 
