CECIDOMYIID^— TlPULIDiE. 383 
Galls on Glechoma hederaceum caused by Cecidomyia hursaria ; A. Muller, 
Ent. vi. p. 180. 
Galls on Quercus puhescens, from the Crimea, referred to a Cecidomyia ; 
and observations on galls of C. circinans and C. eerris: Gemet, Hor, Ent. 
Ross. viii. Bull. p. iv. 
Mycetophilid^. 
T. Beling, S. E. Z. xxxiii. pp. 322-329, recapitulates instances of the ap- 
pearance of swarms of the ^‘Heerwiirm” [not well to be translated by 
Army-worm,” a recognized term for the larvae of an Agrotis in America]. 
It appears to be the larva of a species of fSciara. 
Sciara thomce : migrations of larvae in Russia. J. Portchinsky, Hor. Ent. 
Ross. viii. Bull. p. xi. 
Molohrus sp. 2 J and 1 5 observed flying in copidd. C. W. Dale, Ent. 
M. M. ix. p. 46. 
Sciara atrata, p. 61, gregaria, p. 63, arenaria, p. 58 : T. Beling, Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, xxii., Hartz, spp. nn. (notices of economy of the last two). 
RnYPini);i5. 
IlhypJms punctatus, F., and R. fencslralis, Scop.: metamorphoses and eco- 
nomy described fully. T. Beling, Arch. f. Nat. xxxviii. (Bd. i.) pp. 48-64. 
BiBIONIDiE. 
T. Beling (Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxii. p. 617 ct ^eq.') fully describes the 
early stages and economy of Bihio marci (p. 619), pomonce (p. 626), hortu- 
lamis (p. 626), varipes (p. 627), laniger (p. Q>^0)jjohannis (p. 632), alhipcnnis 
(p. 635), ferruginatus (p. 638), clavipcs (p. 640), venosus (p. 644), and D?7o- 
phus vulgaris (p. 648). 
Bihio marci. Laboulbene, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. 209, notes its ap- 
pearance in large numbers in Paris, in April and May 1872, and refers to its 
economy. Lucas, ihid.^ Bull. p. xliv, quotes a similar account from the 
journal ‘La France,’ in which it is referred to the IchneumonideeX On its 
occurring in immense abundance at Brighton, cf. G. D. Rowley, Ent. vi. 
p. 143. 
CULICID.®. 
Cxilcx, C. Rondani, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. p. 29 et seq.y analyzes the Italian 
species, with the conclusion that there are 12. Of these he gives a dicho- 
tomous table, indicating as new C. articulatus, albipunctatus, penicillaris, pul- 
chritarsi^^ pulchripalpis^ and spathipalpis. None of tflem are described, but 
the characters inferred from their position in the table are possibly meant to 
be equivalent to descriptions. 
S warmings of $ gnats in one room of a house at Oxford noted by J. 0, 
Westwood, P. E. Soc. 1872, p. xxxi. 
Scales of Ctdex : a general account in Ent. vi. pp. 9-11. 
TlPULIDiE. 
Bixa venosaj sp. n., Loew, B. E. Z. xvi. p. 60, Texas. 
Tipula prcccisaj sp. n., id. I, c. p. 61, California. 
Ctenophora angustipennis, sp. n., id. ibid.^ California. 
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