244 Ins, 
DIPTERA. 
Allopogon ferriigineuSj Mendoza, infumatus, Buenos Aires, Arribdlzaga, 
tom. cit. pp. 182 & 183, and xi. p. 17. 
Holcocepliala uruguayensis, id. 1. c. p. 126, Uruguay. 
Scylaticus distingiiendus, id. 1. c. p. 121, Buenos Aires. 
Mtdaidj:. 
Midas bifascia^ Walk. Variation noticed : Osten-Sacken, Ann. Mus. 
GenoNT. xvi. p. 423. 
Nemestrinida?. 
Table of genera of Nemestrinidce ; Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. 
pp. 15-18. 
New genera and species : — 
Farasymmictus, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. 15. Allied to 
Symmictusi type, Hirmoneura clausa^ Ost.-Sack. 
Dicrotrypana, id. ibid. Allied to last ; type, D. flavo-pilosa, sp. n., 1. c. 
p. 21, South Europe ?. 
Trichophthalma scapularis, Australia, p. 18, scalaris, p. 19, and amcena, 
Chili, p. 20, id. 1. c. 
Hirmoneura simplex, id. 1. c. p. 20, Chili. 
BoMBYLIIDiE. 
Riley, C. V. Larval Habits ;of Bee-Flies. Am. Nat. xv. pp. 438-447, 
pi. vi. 
Adapted from 2nd Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. (1880). 
Report on Bombyliidce destructive to locust eggs; P. E. Soc. 1881, 
pp. xxxviii.-xl. 
Systcechus oreas and Triodites mus, Ost.-Sack. Larvae destructive to 
locust eggs; Riley, P. Am. Ass. 1880, p. 649. 
Exoprosopa erythrocephala, Fabr., alhiventris, Macq., proserpina, Wied., 
sanctipauli, maldonadensis, and fasciata, Macq., noticed, and wings of all 
but the first and last figured ; Van der Wulp, Tijdschr. Ent. xxiv. 
pp. 164-168, pi. XV. figs. 11-14. 
Anthrax ventrimacida, Dolesch., A. pelops, Walk., and JExoprosopa leu- 
conoe, Jaenn., = E. doryca, Boisd. ; Osten-Sacken, Ann. Mus. Genov, 
xvi. p. 433. 
Comptosia, Macq., and allied genera noticed ; Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. (6) i. pp. 22 & 23. 
Callostoma fascipennis, Macq. Report of the Committee appointed 
by the Entomological Society to investigate this insect as destructive to 
locust eggs in the Troad ; P. E. Soc. 1881, pp. xiv.-xix. 
Systcechus oreas. Transformations figured and compared with those of 
Bombylius major-, Riley, Am. Nat. xv. pp. 143-145, figs. 
Lygira rubrifera, sp. n.. Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. 23, Australia. 
Dischistus amabilis, sp. n., Van der Wulp,. Tijdschr. Ent. xxiv. p. 162, 
pi. XV. fig. 10, Argentina. 
