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Packard (Proc. & Gomm. Essex Inst. vi. pp. 41-61) notices and described 
various species of Diptera inhabiting salt water. 
Osten-Sacken describes (Trans. Amer. Ent» Soc. ii. p. 299) galls formed 
on the Golden Rod {Solidago) bj eight species of Diptera, namely ; — 1. A 
smooth swelling of stem or branch — Trypeta solidaginis (Fitch) and Cecido- 
myia hirtipes (O.-S.) ; 2. Accumulation of leaves in consequence of arrest of 
gi'owth of stem or hvojiQh.— Trypeta polita (Loew), Cecidomyia solidaginis 
(Loew), and Asphondylia monacha, sp. n. ; 3. Enlargement of bud on flower 
amongst the racemes — Cecidomyia racemicola (O.-S.) and Cecid. anthophila^ 
sp. n. j 4. Hardened spot on the leaves — Cecid. carhonifera (O.-S.). 
Cecidomyim. 
The following species are noticed by Cohn (Abhandl. schles. Gesellsch. 
vaterl. Cultur, 1868-69) as injurious to the grain in the corn-fields of Silesia : 
— Cecidomtjia (Diplosis) tritici (p. 187), C. destructor (pp. 188-190), and C. 
cerealis (pp. 193-196). 
A. Muller (Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 220) notices the spinning-powers of the 
larvfB of a Cecidomyia living in galls on the leaves of Salix grisea. 
Cecidomyia taxi (Inchb.). A. Muller notices the habits of this species, Ent. 
M. Mag. vi. p. 61. The same author (/. c. pp. 109-111) notices the habits of 
C. salicina (Schr.), C.margincmtorqiicns (Bremi), and C. (Schr.) ; also 
(/. c. p. 137) those of C. urticce (Perr.). 
Notices on the natural history of the Hessian Fly and other allied species 
are found in the Correspondence of T. W. Harris ” (Boston Soc. N. H.) 
pp. 183-207. 
ISJew species : — 
Asphondylia monacha^ Osten-Sacken, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 300, on 
Solidago, near Brooklyn. 
Cecidomyia anthophila, Osten-Sacken, 1. c. p. 302, on Solidago, near 
Brooklyn. 
Cecidomyia atricapilla, Rondani, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis. 2nd ser. i. p. 190. 
Micromyia lucorum, Rondani, 1. c. p. 192. 
Mycetophilid^e. 
JEpidapus. Van der Wulp (Tijdschr. voor Ent. 2^® ser. iii. pp. 224-226) 
notices a species which he refers to this genus, but remarks upon certain cha- 
racters in which it differs from Schiner’s character. He figures the abdomen 
of his species (/. c. pi. 11. fig. 1). 
Macrocera. Van der Wulp (1. c. pp. 226-226) notices the S of M. vittata 
(Meig.), and remarks that M. maculipmnis phalerata (Hoffin.), 
and that M. pusilla (Meig.) = Jlf. nana (Macq.). 
Nowicki has published (Verh. naturf. Ver. in Briinn, vi. Abhandl. pp. 1-69) 
a detailed natural history of an Army-worm observed by him in the pine- 
forests of Kopaliny. The insect is described by him as a new species {vide 
infra). 
Eiidicrana, g. n., Loew, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 141. AUied to Lasio- 
soma ; ocelli lateral, middle one obsolete ; tibial spurs long ; wings large, with 
a long pubescence, auxiliary vein running into the costa, united with first 
longitudinal by a transverse venule ; second and fourth posterior cells very 
