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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Micropeza formicaria (Phil.), Rondani, 1. c, p. 42, from Ohili. 
Lamproyastcr bispiuosa and L, ochro7nijuides, Walker, Proc. Idnn. Soc. viii. 
p. 118, from New Guinea. 
Poticai'a hiarcuataj Walker, l.c. p. 133, from Salwatty. 
Addas bradiyophthalma and A. vemistula, Walker, 1. c. p. 119, from New 
Guinea j A. daooidcs, Walk. 1. c. p. 133, from Salwatty. 
Platystoma. Walker (/. c.) describes the following- five new species of this 
genus : — P. brevis and inscripta, p. 120, P. devocata and dindnutiva, p. 121, 
from New Guinea j and P. impinyens^ p. 134, from Salwatty. 
Platystoma lativentris, Loew, Berl. ent. Zejtschr. 1805, p. 241, from Kutais. 
Dacus. Of this genus Walker (l.c.') describes six new species: namely, 
D. speculifer and biurcuatus, p. 122, and D. lateralis and varialis, p. 123, from 
New Guinea ; D. tiayidus, p. 134, and D. deti'udeus, p. 135, from Salwatty. 
Sepsides. 
Diopsis indica. Some notes on the habits of this species are published by 
Alexander, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 23. 
Calobata tipuloides, sp. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 125, from New Guinea. 
Psilides. 
Stymbara, g. n., Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. vin. p. 127. Body slender ; 
anteniuie nearly reaching epistome, third joint linear, four times as long as 
second, arista very briefly pilose ; Avings very long, mediastinal and sub- 
costal veins combined, radial vein undulated, cubital subundulated. Sp. S. 
vagaria, sp. n.. Walk. 1. c. from New Guinea. 
P.dla ? calobatoides, sp. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 125, and P. ? ci’aciata, P. h basa- 
Hs, and P. ? vittifera, Walk. l.c. p. 120, from New Guinea. 
Piophila? disjwicta, sp. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 127, from New Guinea. 
Oscinides. 
The habits of the flies of the genus Chloi’ops and its allies are described by 
Taschenberg, Naturg. wirbell. Thiere, pp. 102-104 j and the characters and 
mode of life of Chlorops tceniopusy 1. c. pp. 104-105 and 276-278, pi. 4. 
fig. 21, C. striyula, 1. c. pp. 105-100, C. lineata, 1. c. pp. 100-107, C. nasuta, 
1. c. pp. J07-108, C. cereris, 1. c. pp. 108-109, Oschds frit, 1. c. pp. 109-170 
and 242, O. pusilla, l.c. pp. 170-171 and 242, and Siphonella pumilimis, I, c. 
pp. 171-172, are given. 
Schwippel records that Chlorops lineata (Fab.) did much damage to wheat 
and barley in the neighbourhood of Ullersdorf in 1804. Verh. naturf. Gesellsch, 
in Briinn, Bd. iii. p. 74. 
Chlorops ? conclusata, sp. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 128, Aom New Guinea. 
Celiphus (sic) incequalis, sp. n., Costa, Ann. Mus. Zool. Nap. ii. p. 152, 
from Australia ? 
Gitona furmosa, sp. n., Loew, Wien. ent. Mon. viii. p. 306, from Northern 
Germany. 
Geomyzides. 
Noteropldla. Loew remaiks (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1805, p. 208) that as the 
