THE GENERAL SUBJECT. CEClDOMYIIDiE. 
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phaga carnaria^ L., fig. 60, and var. sarracenicc^ G2, Erax bas- 
tardi, fig. 35, Proctocanihus milberti, Macq., fig. 54, Tachina, sp., fig. 59 ; 
1st Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm, on Rocky Mountain Locust, pp. 285-324. 
The different sounds produced by flies depend on the movement of the 
■vvings, and the clothing of the body, and not on thoracic stigmata ; Brass, 
Z. ges. Nat. (3) v. p. 683. 
Dipterous larva in the left rhachidian bulb of the horse ; Sirodet, Le 
Nat. ii. p. 243. 
Taschenberg reviews the symptoms of the complaint known as anthrax, 
and comes to the conclusion that it is not conveyed by flies, as popularly 
supposed ; Z. ges. Naturw. (3) v. pp. 197-199. 
Flies riding on a beetle; Moulton, Am. Ent. iii. p. 126. 
Cecidomyiidac. 
Fitch, E. A. British Gall-flies. Ent. xiii. pp. 146-154. 
Table of British Cecidomyiidce, with notice of food-plants, and mode of 
attack. 
Low, F. Ueber neue Gallmiicken und neue Miickengallen. Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, XXX. pp. 31-40. 
Includes a criticism on Karsch’s “ Revision der Gallmiicken ; descrip- 
tions of 4 new species ; and preliminary notices of galls on Verbascum 
lychnitis, Hieracium pilosella, Ononis columnce^ and Rhus cotinus. 
Packard, A. S. The Hessian Fly : its Ravages, Habits, Enemies, and 
the means of preventing its increase. Bull. U. S. Ent. Coram. No. 4, 
pp. 43, pi. ; cf. Am. Nat. xiv. pp. 586 & 687, also Am. Ent. iii. 
pp. 118-121. 
Its principal parasite is Seiniotellus destructor. 
Cecidomyia. Galls on Tanacetum, supposed to belong to this genus ; 
E. A. Ormerod, P. E. Soc. 1880, pp. xxvii, & xxviii. C. destructor: 
Hagen argues that the Hessian Fly was not imported from Europe, but 
is indigenous in North America ; and suggests that the American insect 
may be distinct from the European C. secalina ; Canad. Ent. xii. pp. 
197-207. Supposed parthenogenesis, and present rarity of this insect ; 
id. N. Am. Ent. i. pp. 65 & 66, cf. also Am. Ent. iii. pp. 21, 140, & 141. 
C. leguminicola, Lintuer, redescribed by him ; Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1879, 
pp. 128-130. C. ranunculi, Bremi (?), noticed, and gall figured; Fitch, 
Ent. xiii. pp. 145 & 146, fig. 
Asphondylia. Pupae, galls, &c., described, with list of the European 
species, and descriptions of 2 new ones. Wachtl, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxx. 
pp. 531-538. 
Cecidomyia gollmcri^ Karsch, Z. ges. Naturw. (3 j v. p. 297, Caracas; 
C. galiicola and violoi, Low, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxx. pp. 33 & 34, Austria : 
spp. nn. 
Diplo'ds anthophihora, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 36, Austria. 
Asphondylia dorycnii, id. 1. c. p. 37, Austria (earlier stages probably 
described by Muller) ; A. hornigi, figs. 1-1 /, and mild, fig. 2, Wachtl, 
1. c. pp. 531 & 535, pi. xviii., Vienna : spp. nn. 
