186 Ins, 
DIPTERA, 
Mycetophilid^. 
Sciara, sp. n. Its occasional appearance in swarras in the Southern 
States of America, formerly led to its being called “the yellow fever fly;’’ 
Hagen, Psyche, iii. p. 111. 
Trichonta obesa, Winn., $ described; Mik, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxx. 
pp. 607-609, pi. xvii. figs. 13-15. 
Trichonta hamata^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 604, pi. xvii. figs. 9-12, Austria. 
BiBIONIDiE. 
Bibio albipennis and basalis. Transformations and habits noticed ; 
Provancher, Nat. Canad. xii. pp. 57-59. 
Dilophus vulgaris (spmatus, Walk.). Extraordinary abundance on 
shipboard between Grimsby and London (all ? ? ) ; Douglas, Ent. M. M. 
xvii. p. 142. 
SlMULIID^. 
Simulium, sp. from Ithaca, N.Y., described and eggs figured ; Barnard, 
Am. Ent. iii. pp. 191-193, fig. 103. S. golumbacensis^ Fabr. : habits ; 
Leth5, Nature, xxi. p. 202. 
CniEONOMIDiE. 
Chironomus, vide Jawarowsky, A. {Insecta, General Subject, antea, 
p. 4). 
Chironomus. Marriage -flight at Leipzig, Sept. 28, 1880 ; Taschenberg, 
Z. ges. Naturw. (3) v. p. 766. 
BLEPHAROCERTD.M. 
Curupira torrentium. Under this name, F. Muller is about to publish 
the transformations of one of the Blepharoceridce apparently belonging to 
the genus Faltostoma, Schin., = Hapalothrix^ Low. The transformations 
of the group were previously quite unknown, and its systematic position 
was uncertain in consequence ; Brauer, Zool. Anz. iii. pp. 134 & 135. 
Osten-Sacken discusses various points relative to the Blepharoceridce^ 
in connection with F. Muller’s observations ; Ent. M. M. xvii. pp. 
130-132. 
Culicibj:. 
Specifics against the attacks of mosquitoes ; Nature, xxii. pp. 11, 338, 
460, 461, & 511. 
Tipulidj:. 
Ctenophora. Structure of the dorsal vessel in some Dipterous larvm 
supposed to belong to this genus, described at great detail ; Viallanes, 
C. 11. xc. pp. 1180-1182. C. compedita, Wied., noticed and wing figured. 
