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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 
New species : — 
Tipula. Philippi (/. c.) describes T. decorata and glaphyroptera, p. 601 ; 
T. subandma, concinna, and annuUpes, p. 605 j T. ptaidsenij v(ddivuma^ and 
apterogyne, p. 606 j T. vittigera and JlavipamiSj p. 607. 
Tpula autu?nnaliSf Loew, Wien. ent. Mon. viii. p. 126, from Meseritz 
( 2 with rudimentary wings) j T. repanda^ Loew, p. 129, and T. triangulifercij 
Loew, p. 130, from the south of Spain. 
Tipida pallida, yfaWiei', Proc. Linn. Soc. \iii. p. 105, from New Guinea. 
Erioptera ? longipes and E. ? pallida, Philippi, /. c. p. 610, from Chili. 
Megistocera chilansis, Philippi, l.c. p. 617. 
Limnohia. Walker (/. c.) describes the following six new species of this 
genus from New Guinea : — L. plenipennis, p. 103 j L. latifascia, vnjixa, and con- 
tingens, p. lOl ; L. exclusa and trisignata, p. 105 also Z. filiformis, 1. c. 
p. 131, from Salwatty. 
Limnobia. The following now Chilian species are described by Philippi 
Q. c.) : — L. Jlavida and vcrmalis, p. 612 ; L. infumata, guttata, and polysticta, 
p. 613 j X. phatta and X. chlorutica, p. 014. 
Gnophomyia pxmlla, Schiner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xv. p. 995, 
from Austria. 
Limnophila. Philippi (/. c.) describes X. stigmatica, p. 610 j X. ? pallens, 
ibid, j X. trichopus, ibid. 3 X. apoccila, verecunda, cineracea, and venosa, p. 611. 
Limnophila undidata, Bellardi, Mem. R. Accad, Tor. ser. 2. tome xxi. 
p. 200, pi. 3. fig. 2, from Mexico. 
Pachyrhina temds. Walker, /. c. p. 106, from New Guinea ; P. color ata. 
Walk. 1. c. p. 131, from Salwatty . — Pachyrhyna (sic) captensis, Rondani, 1. c. 
p. 91, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Toxorhina magna, Osten-Sacken, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 232, from 
New Jersey ; and T. midiebris, O.-Sacken, p. 233, from Massachusetts. 
Cylindrotoma americana, Osten-Sacken, p. 236, from the White Moun- 
tains. 
Cylindrotoma hy adopter a, Philippi, 1. c. p. 614, from Chili. 
Triogma exsculpta, Osten-Sacken, p. 239, from Pennsylvania ; T. nodicor- 
nis, O.-Sack. ibid., from Washington, New York, Illinois, &c. 
Phalacrocera tipulina, Osten-Sacken, p. 241, from the White Mountains. 
Gynoplistia insolita, Walker, 1. c. p. 131, from Salwatty. 
Aporosa mexicana, Bellardi, 1. c. p. 201, from Mexico. 
Stratiomydas. 
Ilermetia. Rondani (Archivio Oanestr. vol. iii. p. 86) proposes to regard 
llermetia as the type of a distinct subfamily, Ilermetiince, including the 
genus Cyphomia (Wied). 
Bellardi describes a variety of his Ilermetia lativentris from Mexico. Mem. 
R. Accad. Tor. ser. 2. tome xxi. p. 205, 
Rondani states, from reexamination of the type, that the genus Chrysomya 
(Besv.) should be adopted, and proposes the name of Myochrysa for the sy- 
onymous genus of Stratiomydin. Archivio Canostr. vol. iii. p. 28. 
