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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Tipula. Loew (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864) describes the following new 
species of this genus : Tipula fraterna, 1. c. p. 66, from Columbia j T. ternariaj 
1. c. p. 67, T. macrolabis, 1. c. p. 68, T. serrulatay ibid., T. canadensis, 1. Cr 
p. 69, and T. centralis, 1. c. p. 60, from the Hudson’s Bay Territory ; T. puhera, 
1. c. p. 67, from California j T. latipennis, 1. c. p. 60, and T. tephrocephala, 1. c. 
p. 62, from New Hampshire ) and T. angulata, 1. c. p. 61, from Massachusetts 
and New Hampshire. 
Geranomyia maculipennis, Mik, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, Bd. xiv. 
p. 791, pi, 21. figs. 1 & 2, from Gorz. 
Limnohia aurorata. Walk. Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 202, and L. selectis- 
sima. Walk, ibid., from Mysol j L, delectata. Walk. 1. c. p. 231, and L. inno- 
tabilis. Walk, ibid., from Ceram ; L. goritiensis, Mik, 1. c. p. 792, from Gorz. 
Ithiphidia uniseriata (Schumuiel, MS.), Schiner, Fauna Austr. p. 664, from 
Silesia. 
Ggmnojjlistia melancholica, Walk. /. c. p. 203, from Mysol. 
Stratiomyd^. 
Aulana, g. n.. Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 204. Allied to Clitel- 
laria ; body bread ; head wider than front of thorax ; antennae subsetaceous, 
acute, long, joints indistinct; thorax produced and narrowed in front; scu- 
tellum large, conical. Sp. A. cmjirmata, ep. n., Walk. 1. c. p. 204, from Mysol. 
Musamn, g. n,. Walker, /. c. p. 206. Body short, broad ; antennae short, 
subfusiform, compact, arista long; thorax convex; scutellum bispinose-. 
Sp. 31. paupera, sp. n.. Walk. 1. c. p. 206, from M} Sol. 
Stratiomys restricta^ sp. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 203, from Mysol. 
Salduba gradiens, sp. n.. Walk, ibid.^ and S', areolaris, sp. n,. Walk. 1. c. p. 
204, fiom Mysol. 
Tachygaster alpimis, sp. n., Lioy, Atti 1st. Ven. 3“ ser. tomo ix. p. 688, from 
the subalpine woods of Vicenza. 
Xylophagid^. 
Hexacantha, g. n., Lioy, Atti 1st. Ven. 3® ser. tomo ix. p. 686. Allied to 
. Beris ; antennae usually not much elongated ; first joint of posterior tarsi ob- 
long ; scutellum with six spines. Sp. 11. chalybeata (Forst.), clavipes (Meig.), 
vallata (Forst.), and nigritarsis (Lat.). 
Octacantha, g. n., Lioy, 1. c. p. 686. Allied to Beris; antennae longer than 
the head ; scutellum with eight spines. Sp. O. fuscipes (Meig.), /lavipes 
(Macq.). 
Tabanid^. 
Tabanm exagens, sp. n.. Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 206, T. facilis, 
sp. n., Walk. 1. c. p. 206, T, sylvioides, sp. n.. Walk, ibid., from Mysol ; and T. 
obscuratus, sp. n., Walk. 1. c. p. 232, from Ceram. 
BoMBYLIIDiE. 
Frauenfeld has bred specimens of Argyramoeba leucogaster (Meig.) from 
larvae found in the nests of Cemonus, and suggests that the larvae of the 
. Anthracide parasites are probably carried by the bees into their nests in the 
.same way as those of 3Ieloe and the Strepsiptera. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in 
Wien, Bd. xiv. pp. 688 & 689. . 
