414 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Drosophila melampasUr (Meig.) yvas captured at the plose of the same 
voyage, near Gibraltar. 
in the int^roduction to his descriptions of new Exotic Diptera 
(Abhaiidl. Sepek. x^aturf. Ges, vi. p. 312), gives a list of European species 
•vyhich he has met with coming from extra-European countries, and also a 
note of 6 species of Diptera from Cuba, not recorded in llamon de la Sagra’a 
Natural fjistory of that island. 
0. Gerhaiidt (Jeuaische Zeitschrift, iii. p. 454) records a case in which a 
patient, after 4 days’ illness, vomited about 60 larv£e of some Dipterous in- 
sect^ probably a large species of Muscidse. 
CECIUOMYIDiE. 
p. G. Oarus (Nova Acta&c. Leopoldinae, xxxiii. pp. 95-97) gives a short 
account of the larval reproduction of Miastor, 
Maklin has published (Qifvors. Einska Vet.-Soc. Eerh. viii, pp. 22-32) an 
abstract of the observations made by various authors upon the viviparous 
larvae of Miastor. 
Lubboce discusses the larval reproduction of Miastor in his Presidential 
Address for 1867, Proc. Ent. 3oc, 1866, pp. Ivii-lx. 
"VVaesh (Proc, Ent. Soc. PhiJ. vi. pp. 223-229) notices the galls formed by 
various species of this family on willows in North America. He also dis- 
cusses the statements of Eitch and Harris as to the metamorphosis of these 
gall-gnats, 
A, Forel (Bull. Soc, Vaud. Sci, Nat. ix. pp. 82-84) notices the habits of 
Ceddomyia brassicce (Winn.); and of its parasites (see pp. 205-206), 
^sphondylia pruniperduf sp. n., Eondani, Ann. Soc. Nat. Mod. ii, p. 37, in 
the flower-buds of the common plum j A. verbasci, sp. n. (Vail.), Bond. 1. c. 
p. 38, in the unopened flowers of Scrophidaria canina. The Chalcidian para- 
sites of those species are also described by Ilondani. 
CeciUpmyias. 8trobiliscus,s^. n., Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 223; C. 
s, fhodoideSj sp. n., Walsh, L c. p. 224 ; C. s. cornu ^ Walsh, ibid. ; C. s. siliyua, 
sp. n,, Wftlslij P? 225, All in galls of willows. 
JA-oxwomyia fischeri^ sp. n.^ Erauenfeld, /, o. p. 781, larva in Carex pilosa. 
. CULICID^. 
Goureau (Insectes nuisibles, pp. 133-139) describes the characters and 
habits of various species of this family, which render themselves obnoxious 
by their avidity for blood, such as Oidox pipiens, ornutus, aamdutus, nemorosus, 
and Anopheles macxdipennis. 
Culex conopasy sp. n., Erauenfeld, Verb, zool.-bot. Gos. in Wien, xvii. p. 461, 
on board the ‘ Novara’ in the Chinese Seas. 
MyCETOPHILIDiE. 
Nowioki has published (Verh. zool.-bot.' Gesellsch. in Wien, xvii. Sit- 
zungsb. pp. 23-36) an elaborate report on the Army-worm, the assemblage of 
larvae of Sciara thomcc, as observed by him in the Carpathians and Tatra. He 
describes the appearance of the peculiar train of larvae, but did not himself 
see any of the very large processions described by authors, the longest being- 
only 20 inches in length. The larvae creep along not only side by side, but 
also one over the other, all adhering together by their sticky surface, but 
