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(Fab.), and Cyrtoneura stahulans (Fall.), the latter bred from shells of JleUx 
lefeburima (Fer.). 
The same author (/. c. p. 798) gives a list of rare and remarkable species of 
Diptera observed by him in the neighbourhood of Gorz. 
A translation of Loew’s paper On the Dipterous fauna of Amber ” is 
given in the American Journal of Science for May 1864 (vol. xxxvii. pp. 
305-324). Notes have been appended to it by the author, containing lists 
of species in illustration and confirmation of the statements made in the 
original text. 
CECIDOMYIDiE. 
Walsh, in his memoir on the Cecidomyidan galls of the North- American 
willows (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. pp. 543-644), describes 15 specific 
forms of these excrescences, the producers of six of which are known to him 
in the perfect state. The galls of the larvae, puptn, and perfect insects 
(where these are known) are fuliy described by the author, who also describes 
eight species of inquilinous Gall-gnats of the genus Cecidomyia. 
Haberlandt (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, Bd. xiv. pp. 401-406) describes 
the occurrence of Cecidomyia destructor (Say) in injurious abundance in 
various parts of the Austrian dominions, and gives an account of the life-history 
of the fly. 
The ravages of the same insect form the subject of a paper by KUnstler 
(/. c. pp. 407-412), who also refers to some other species. Frauenfeld also 
notices the Cecidomyice, with other Dipterous insects injurious to vegetation 
(/. c. pp. 413-416). 
Bertoloni notices the destruction of grain by Cecidomyia cerealis. Bendic. 
Accad. Sci. Bologna, 1864, pp. 79-85, and p. 140-144. 
Cecidomyia. Of this genus Walsh (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii.) describes 
the following species as producing galls on various N.-American willows : C, 
salicis hrassicoideSi 1. c. p. 579 j C. a. strobiloideSyX. c. p. 582 j C. s. ynaphalioides^ 
1. c. p. 685 j C. s. Q'hodoideSj 1. c. p. 587 j C. s. siliqua (= C. salicis, Fitch ?= 
C. riyidcB, O, S. ?), /. c. p. 594 j C. s. batatas, 1. c. p. 604. Also the following 
inquilinous species : — C. albovittata, 1. c. p. 621 j C. oi bitalis, 1. c. p. 62-3 j C. 
cornuta, 1. c. p. 625 : (Subgenus Diplosis) D. atrocularis, 1. c. p. 626 j Z). 
atricornis, 1. c. p. 628 ; D. anmdifea, 1. c. p. 629 ; D. septem-maculata, 1. c. 
p. 630; D. decem-maculata, 1. c. p. 631. 
Cylindrocera, g. n., Lioy, Atti 1st. Ven. 3“ ser. tomo ix. p. 603. Allied to 
Cecidomyia) antennie cylindrical, of 12 joints. Sp. C, (Meg.). 
Mycetophilid.e. 
Laboulbene describes Sciara ingenua (L. Duf.) as a tuberivorous insect. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® sdr. tome iv. p. 89. 
Gemja, Lioy, Atti 1st. Ven. 3® ser. tomo ix. p. 229. Lioy proposes this 
name for Macrocera (Meig.), the latter name having been applied by Spinola 
to a genus of Hymenoptera. The new name is in honour of Professor Gene. 
Macrocet'a annulicoxa, sp. n., Mik, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, Bd. xiv. 
p. 791,* near Vienna. 
Leia indivisa, sp. n., Walk. Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 223, from Waigiou. 
Sciara ponderosa, sp. n.. Walk. 1. c. p. 230, from Ceram. 
