INSECTA. 
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BiniONIDiE. 
liiUo, Loew (Beil, entom. Zeitschr. 1864) describes the following new 
species from North America ; BiUo hirtus, 1. c. p. 61, from California; B. in- 
trqualis, ibid., from Sitka ; B. nervosus, 1. c. p. 62, from California ,* B. obscu- 
rns, ibid., from the Hudson’s Bay Territory; B. Ivffcns, ibid., from J^ake 
Winnipeg; B. vanahilis, 1. c. p. 63, from Sitka and New Hampshire; B.fra- 
ternus, 1. c. p. 64, from Columbia ; B. ahhreviatus, ibid., from Columbia ; B, 
nigripilus, 1. c. p. 66, from Lake Winnipeg ; B. basalts, ibid., from New Hamp- 
shire ; and B. longipes, ibid., from Columbia. 
Scatopse pygmcea, Loew, 1. c. p. 66, from Columbia. 
CniRONOMlDiE. 
Chasmatonottis unimaculatus, sp. n., Loew, Berl. entom. Zeits, 1864, p. 60, 
from New Hampshire. 
CULICID^. 
Culix glaphyroptcrm, sp. n., Schiner, Fauna Austr. p. 628, Austria. 
TiPULIDA5. 
Osten-Sacken states that of the five species of Ctenophora recorded in his 
Catalogue, two, namely C. fuliginosa (Say) and C. ahdominaHs (Say), belong 
to Tijnila, and that C. parrii (Kirby) is also probably a Tipitla. The others, 
C. dorsalis (Walk.) and C. succcdens (Walk.), the author has been unable to 
identify. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 45. 
New genera : — 
Anomaloptera, Lioy, Atti 1st. Ven. 3® ser. tomo ix. p. 218. Allied to 
Pachyrrhina ; prolongation of the head rather long and narrow ; forehead flat ; 
first joint of antennae elongate. Type Tipida nigra (Linn.). 
Macroptera, Lioy, I, c. p. 224. Allied to Cylindrotoma ; wings very broad, 
especially in 5 > two submarginal and four posterior cells. Sp. Macroptera 
quadrivittata (Lioy) = Cylindrotoma macroptera (Macq.). 
Platytoma, Lioy, I, c. p. 226. Allied to Erioptera ; second joint of antennie 
much elongated and thick ; wings with a discoidal cell. Type Erioptera 
cinerascens (Meig.). 
New species : — 
Ctenophora. Osten-Sacken (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii.) describes five 
new North American species of this genus: namely, C. nnbecida, 1. c. p. 46, 
from Illinois ; C. apicata, 1. c. p. 46, from Maine and New Hampshire ; C. 
fumipenniSf 1. c. p. 47, from Virginia; C. topazma, ibid., from Virginia; and 
C. frontalis, 1. c. p. 48, from Massachusetts and Ohio, porhaps= C. mcccdcns 
(Walk.). 
Pachyrrhina. The following North American species are described by 
Loew (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864) : Pachyrrhina nobilis, 1. c. p. 62, and P. litgens, 
1. c. p. 63, from New Hampshire; P. virescens, 1. c. p. 62, from Columbia; 
P. vittida, 1. c. p. 63, and P. occipitalis, 1. c. p. 66, from the Hudson’s Bay 
Territory; P. sodalis, 1. c. p. 64, from Connecticut; P. xanthostigma, 1. c. 
p. 65, from lil'nois ; P. unimacidata, 1. c. p. 64, from New York; and P. gra~ 
cilicornis, 1. c. p. 66 (origin not mentioned). 
