DIPTERA. 637 
scviptlons of a great number of new speeies, many of wliicli are 
deseribed as the types of new genera. 
Rondant, C. Diptera Italica non vel minus cognita descripta 
vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Rase. I. 
(EstridcRj Syrphidoi, Conopidcn, Atti della Soc. Ital. Sci. 
Nat. viii. pp. 137-146 : May 1865. 
. Alcune osservazioni sulla Nota dei Professor! Generali 
e Canestrini sui parassiti della Ceeidomia del Prumento. 
Ibid. pp. 150-153. 
— — . Dipterorum species et genera aliqua exotica revisa et 
annotata, novis nonnullis descriptis. Arcliiv. Zool. Anat., 
&c., di Canestrini, iii. pp. 1-99, pi. 5 : May 1864. 
ScHiNER, J. R. Erwiederung auf wiederliolte AngrifFe des 
Herrn H. Loew in Meseritz gegen meine Person und 
gegen meine Fauna austriaca. Wiener entom. Monatssclir. 
viii. pp. 296-301. 
. Ueber Miastor metraloas Meinert. Verhandl. zool.-bot. 
Gesellscb in Wien, Bd. xv. pp. 87, 88. 
In this paper the author briefly indieates the peculiar mode of 
reproduction of Miastor, and discusses the characters and posi- 
tion of that genus. 
. Dipterologische Miscellen. Ibid. pp. 989-1000. 
In this paper Schiner first records the additions made during 
the year 1865 to the list of Austrian Diptera (pp. 989-993), and 
afterwards notices the objections raised by the Recorder to some 
parts of his nomenclature of the veins of the Dipterous wings. 
The paper concludes with descriptions of some new species. 
Walker, F. Descriptions of new species of the Dipterous In* 
sects of New Guinea. Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. pp. 102- 
130 : January 13 (pp. 102-108) and December 5, 1865. 
. Descriptions of some new species of Dipterous Insects 
from the Island of Salwatty, near New Guinea. Ibid, 
pp. 130-136 : December 5, 1865. 
Walsh, B. D. See Insecta, p. 385. 
{Aphanijitera.) 
Guyon, — . Ilistoire naturelle et medicale dc la Chigue {Uhyn- 
choprion penetrans y Oken), insecte parasite des regions tro- 
picales des deux Ameriques. Revue et Mag. Zool. 1865> 
pp. 295-307 : October. 
This constitutes the first part of a memoir on the Chigoe, and 
contains an historical account of the knowledge of the insect, and 
a discussion of its geographical distribution. This portion of 
