Ins. 183 
DIPTERA. 
BY 
W. F. Kirby, M.E.S., &c. 
Tue General Subject. 
AruibAlzaga, F. L. Informo sobro una coleccion do Diptoros reunida 
oil las Conchas por M. 0. Cesar. Nat. Arg. i. pp. 185-189. 
Bigot, J. M. F. Diptoros nouveaux ou pou connus. xviii.-xxii. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) x. pp. 84-94, 213-230 & 3G9-374. 
Rolates to Plagiocera, Formosia, and Rutilia; Diopsididcu (with tablo of 
gonora) ; Porsian and Caucasian Diptera (no distinction is made botwoon 
thoso now spociosj; Syrphidm\ and Tabanidm (remarks, and table of the 
genera into which Pangonia and Tahanus have been subdivided). 
Brauer, F. Die Zweifliigler des kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien, i. 
Denk. Ak. Wien, xlii. pp. 105-216, pis. i.-vi. 
Includes a sketch of the four principal collections of Diptera in the 
Vienna Museum, the Imperial, Winthem’s, Wiedemann’s, and Egger’s 
Collections ; remarks on the classification of Diptera^ with a table of 
families, and a monograph of the European species of TaftemMS, including 
descriptions of many Mediterranean and Siberian species, and preceded 
by valuable tables of 55 males and 62 females. Remarks on geographical 
distribution and tables of authorities and synonymy, &c., close the paper. 
The plates represent details, and chiefly the heads of the species 
described. 
CiACCio, G. V. Nuove osservazioni intorno all’ intima struttura degli 
occhi de’ Ditteri. Rend. Acc. Bol. 1879-80, pp. 134 & 135. 
Gobert, — . Diagnoses de Tabaniens nouveaux. Bull. Soc. L. N. Fr. 
V. pp. 29 ct seq, 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Holmgren, A. E., Novas species insectorum cura et labore A. E. Norden- 
skioldii e Novaia Semlia coactorum descripsit. Ilolmim: 1880, 4to, 
pp. 24. 
[Not seen by the Recorder. Probably published in advance of Sv. Ak. 
Handl. (2) xviii.] 
