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DIPTERA. 
terees ” or “ Muscidees.’^ Gymnosoma nitens, Wied., and ? G. costata, Pz., 
are referred to Wahlbergia, Zett. All the genera, such as Clytra and 
Tryphera, that have long abdominal setae, are eliminated from the group. 
Sarcophaga. 20 British species recognized and described, with general 
characters, generic and sexual, an analytical table, and magnified lateral 
outlines of S. carnaria, melanura^ and nurus. R. H. Meade, Ent. M. M. 
xii. pp. 216-220, 260-268. 
Musca domestica identical in the Old and New Worlds ; an abstract of 
its life history, with figs, of its early stages. A. S. Packard, Am. Nat. 
X. pp. 476-480, fig. 28. 
Anthomyia (Eomalomyia) scalaris ; 50 larvae discharged from the lower 
intestine of a boy in Kentucky, and the flies afterwards reared from 
them ; G. S. Judd, Am. Nat. x. p. 374. 
Anthomyia muscaria, F. ; larva described, from willow catkins; E. 
Perris, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. p. 189. A. sp. near pluvialis : larvne 
and pupae extracted from the ear of a patient, suffering from severe 
inflammation ; A. Laboulbene, quoting Danthon, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
vi. p. xxii. 
C. Rondani, Bull. Ent. Ital. viii. p. 187 et seq., continues his treatment 
of the “ Species Italicae ordinis Dipterorum (Muscaria, Rndn.) ” by dis- 
cussing his “ Stirps xxiv. Chylizinco,^' wherein he includes Pachylomera^ 
R., Psila, Mgn., Loxocera^ Fall., Plathystila, Mcq., Megachetum^ R., and 
Chyliza^ Fall. 
Orellia schmeri, Lw., reared from seed-pods of Posa canina ; 1^. Perris, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. p. 238. 
Sphecolyma, g. n., Perris, 1. c. p. 242. Anthomyiides, near Drymda ; re- 
markable for its long legs ; bred from nest of Vesjm gernianica. For S. 
flava, sp. n., ibid., Landes. 
2'richopoda nigricauda, p. 394, Mexico, bicolor, p. 395, nigripennh, 
p. 396, and obscura, p. 399, Buenos Ayres, arcuata, p. 397, Chili, picti- 
pennis, p. 398, S. America, spp. nn., Bigot, 1. c. 
Pogosia rufiventris, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 399, Natal. 
SarcopJiaga similis, R. H. Meade, 1. c. p. 261, Britain (? = carnaria, 
var. ; id. 1. c. p. 268) ; /S', mutata, F. Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 450, 
Rodriguez Island : spp. nn. 
Lucilia bufonivora, sp. n., R. Moniez, Bull. Sc. Nord, viii. p. 25, Dept, 
du Nord. The eggs are laid in the eyes of frogs, and the larvae eat into 
the living Batrachian. Taken abundantly at Valenciennes by A. Lelievre, 
who refers it to regalis or illustris, Meig. ; but this opinion contradicted 
by A. Girard, tom. cit. pp. 171 & 172. Larvae supposed to be those of this 
species discovered in the head of a toad found near Maurenne ; P. de 
Borre, CR. Ent. Belg. xix. p. Ixiv. Evidence of its occurrence near Paris ; 
M. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. pp. ccii. & ccxix. 
Pollenia basalis, sp. n., F. Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 449, Rodriguez 
Island. 
Milichia argyrogastra, sp. n. ?, Perris, 1. c. p. 208, reared from lime-trees, 
Mt. de Marsan. 
Psila bertolini[^i'}, p. 190, Italy, sardoa, p. 192, Sardinia, spp. nn., C. 
Rondani, 1. c. 
