DIPTERA, 417 
Odontomyia hirclmeriy Jaennicke, /. c, p. 323, Australia j O. prasina, Jaen. 
1. c. p. 324, Mexico. 
Sargus festivus^ Jaennicke, I, c, p. 325, Abyssinia ; S, violaceus, Jaen, 1. c. 
p. 326, Brazil. 
Nemotclus lomnichiif Mik, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 413, pi. 10. 
fig. 6, Halicia. 
Xylophagid.®. 
JSeris servillei (Macq.) belongs to the genus Actina, and the genera Acan- 
thometra and Haphiorhynchus (Wied.) belong to the present family rather 
than the Tabanidae, according to Jaennicke, Abh. Senck. Gesellsch. vi. p. 326. 
Suhula marginata (Macq.). The habits of this species are described by 
Goureau ; the larva lives under the old bark of dead poplars. Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1867, p. Ixxxvii. 
JExairetaf g. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 309. Allied to Diphysa ; forehead narrow ; 
antennae inserted in the middle, 3-jointed, joint 3 elongate, 10-ringed, with- 
out style or seta; scutellum with 4 long, strong spines; mediastinal and 
subcostal veins separated only at base, cubital forked, terminating in anterior 
margin ; discoidal cell largo, heptagonal, emitting 4 veins. Type Xylophagus 
spiniger (Wied.). 
Tabanid;e. 
Goureau (Insectes nuisibles, pp. 140-148) describes the characters and 
habits of the following species of this family : — Tabanus hovinus, morio^ fiilvus, 
luriduSj tropicus, autumnalis, hrornius, ^-notatus, and rusticus, Ilccmatopota plu~ 
vialis, Chrysops ccccuticns and marmoratus. 
New genera and species : — 
Stibasoma, g. n., Schiner, Vcrh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 310. Allied 
to Sclasoma and Jiadrus ; antennae inserted below middle of head, joints 1 & 2 
short, 2 with a sharp point above, 3 furcate, 6-ringed, ring 1 large, deeply 
emarginate above, and with a long, thick, blunt process. Type Tabanus 
iheotamia (Wied.). 
Apocampta, g. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 310. Allied to Pangonia ; joint 3 of an- 
tennae 8-ringed, without a basal process ; abdomen short, depressed ; wings 
short, rounded at apex. Typev4. nigra, sp. n., Sydney. 
Diclisa, g. n., Schiner, 1. c. p. 311. (Pangoninec,') Allied to Mycteromyia 
(Phil.)= subdivision Scione (Walk.); proboscis half as long as body ; upper 
branch of cubital fork with a small appendicular vein, 1st and 4th posterior 
marginal cells closed, 3rd apical vein abbreviated. Type Pangonia incom- 
pleta (Macq.). 
Pangonia. Jaennicke (Abh. Senck. Gesellsch. vi.) describes the following 
new species of this genus: — P. Jucunda, p. 327, Chili; P. aur of asciata, ibid., 
pi. 43, fig. 5, and P. dilatata, p. 328, Australia ; P. ruppellii, p. 329, Simen ; 
P. crocata, p. 330, and P. grisca, p. 331, Chili. 
Tabanus sujis, Jaennicke, 1. c. p. 332, Nubia; T, psusennis, Jaen. 1. c. p. 333. 
Abyssinia. 
Chrysops lincatus, J aennicke, 1. c. p. 334, Illinois. 
Nemestrinidas. 
Prosaca, g. n., Schiner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 311. Allied 
