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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Somomya acutanyula {Callipliora?'), Rondani; l.c. p. 28, S. transmarina 
{Callip}tora')j Rondaui, p.29, from South America j S.americana {Calliphora'), 
Rond. ibid. = C. rujipalpis (Macq.). S. anuUpes (sic) (^Lucilia ?), Rond. p. 30, 
from Chili. 
Pyrellia fumipennis, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. viii. p. 115, from New 
Guinea, — P. diversipalpis, Rondani, 1. c. p. (Macq. Dipt, Exot. 
Suppl. 6). 
Dasiphora affricana (sic), Rondani, 1. c. p. 31, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Anthomyides . 
Myantha (Rond.). The distinctive characters of this genus and Anthomyia 
are given by Rondani, Arch. Canestr. iii. p, 34, pi. 5, fig. 5 (wing). Type A. 
canicularis (Linn.) of Europe, which also occurs in Chili. 
Brachypalpus. This generic name has been used twice by Macquart 
among the Syrpliidce and Anthomyides j Rondani proposes Palpibraciis for the 
Anthomyide genus, L. c. p. 35. 
Taschenberg (Wirbell. Thiere) describes the characters and life-history of 
Anthomyia hrassiccB (Bouche), l.c. pp. 172-175, pi. 3. figs. 16-20; A. con- 
formis (Fall.), 1. c. pp. 175-176; A. coarctata (Fall.), l.c. pp. 243-245; and Psila 
rosce (Fab.), 1. c. pp. 176-178, pi. 6. fig. 20. 
Anthomyia. Damianitsch describes and figures the preparatory states of a 
species of this genus (named A. damianitschi by Schiner). Verb, zool.-bot. 
Ges. in Wien, xv. pp. 239-240. 
Anthomyia damianit'ichi, Schiner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xv. p. 998, 
and A. haherlandti, sp. n., Schin. p. 999, from Austria. — A. chrysostoma (Fhil.), 
Rondani, Arch. Canestr. iii. p. 33, pi. 5, fig. 6 (wing), from Chili. 
Anthomyia pluvialis (Linn.) is found at the Cape. Rondani, 1. c. p. 34, 
Ophira leucostoma (Fall.) taken in Syria. Rondani, 1. c. p. 33. 
The lar^'a of Anthomyza coffece mines the leaves of the coffee-trees in 
Ceylon, according to Nietner. See Guerin, Rev. et Mag. deZool. 1864, p. 92. 
Helomyzides. 
Laboulbene states that he has reared specimens of Ilelomyza olens (Meig.) 
and II. humilis (Meig.) from decomposing trufiles. He is also engaged in 
rearing the larva described by R(§aumur as the Ver d tete noire. Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. 1865, p. xix. 
Peratochetus (Rond.). This genus is characterized by Rondani, Canestr. 
Arch. iii. p. 42, and the wing, head, and antenna figured, pi. 5. figs. 7-9. 
The history of Lipara lucens is described by Winter, Entomologist, ii. 
pp. 172-174. 
Tendeba, g. n.. Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. viii. p. 117. Allied to Orygma 
and Calopa ; body robust, not setose ; forehead flat, face somewhat im- 
pressed ; palpi small ; antenmo very .short, third joint round, very small, seta 
subpubescent ; scutellum conical, produced ; abdomen elongate-ovate, shorter 
and narrower than thorax ; legs robust, naked ; wings rather broad. Sp. 
7'. testacea, sp. n.. Walk. p. 118, from New Guinea. 
New species : — 
Hclomyza optatura and ortalioidcs, Walker, Proc, Linn. Soc. viii. p. 116, 
and II. stelliplenay Walk. p. 117, from New Guinea. 
