THE GENERAL SUBJECT— TIPUTJD.E. 
Ins. 193 
Cecidomyia bi'assicw, Winn. : a Platygaster bred from its larvje ; Doeb- 
ner, Ent. MB. i. p. 58. 
Mycetophilidas. 
Sciara sp. parasitic on Nematus larva; P. Cameron (quoting Verrall), 
P. N. H. Soc. Glasg. ii. p. 298. 
Stcegeria, g. n., for Sciophi la halterata, Steeg. ; F. M. "Van der Wulp, 
Tijdschr. Ent. xix. Verslag, p, xlix., wing figured, with postical vein not 
furcate. 
BlBIONIDiE. 
Penthetria holosericea, Meig., new to the French Fauna, with remarks 
on the neuration of the genus and on fossil Bihionidm ; A. Giard, Bull. 
Soc. Nord, viii. pp. 172-178. 
Blepha roceridac. 
llapalothrix^ g. n., H. Low, Deutsche E. Z. 1876, p. 210. Allied to 
the S. American Paltostoma, and forming with that genus a special group, 
characterized by the want of spurs to the hinder tibiae. Only the $ 
known, of which the genitalia resemble those of Liponeura. Differs 
from Paltostoma in being clothed with long hairs, &c. For II. luguhris^ 
sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 212, Monte Rosa. 
CuLICIDiE. 
Culex.- Large numbers, of the $ only, appearing in a bouse early in 
spring; J. 0. Westwood, P. E. Soc. 1876, p. vii. 
Tipulida-j. 
Tipula oleracea. “ A comparison of the metamorphosis of the crane- 
fly and the blow-fly,” by A. Hammond, J. Quek. Club, 1876, pp. 139-148, 
pis. X. & xi. Especially refers to the pupa, and to the “ imaginal discs ” 
of Weismann, which the author does not find to represent anything 
essentially exceptional in the mode of development of the segments to 
which they belong. The tendency of the observations is to disprove the 
distinctive character of the development of the cephalic and thoracic 
segments. 
Semnotes, g. n., J. O. Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 601. No differ- 
ential characters mentioned; S. imperatoria, pi, iii. fig. 1, Melbourne, 
diicalisy figs. 2 a, 2 b, N. Australia, spp. nn., id. 1. c. p. 502. 
LihnoteSy g. n., id. 1. c. p. 505. Yenation entirely anomalous, no veins 
being furcate at apex," where they are parallel. For L. thwaitesiana, sp. n., 
id. ibid. pi. iii. figs, 6 a, & 6 B, Ceylon. 
Ozodicera longipedalis . sp, n., id. 1. c. p. 503, pi. iii. fig. 4, Australia. 
Tipula brobdignagia [!], pi. iii. fig. 3, North China, mihado, Japan, 
spp. nn., c. p. 504. 
Limnobia satsuma, sp. n., id. 1. o. p. 504, pi. iii. figs. 5 a, 5 B, Japan. 
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