THE GENERAL SUBJECT^ CECIDOMYIJD JC. laS, 237 
Romarks on a collection of Diiitcra from New Zealand ; Liucke, S. E. Z. 
xxxix. pp. 237 & 238. 
Captures of Diptera in Martinique and Antigua; T. A. Marshall, 
P. E. Soc. 1878, pp. XXXV. & xxxvi. 
Notes on Diptera parasitic on toads, hares, &c. ; Megnin & Girard, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. iii.-v., xiii. & xiv. 
Notes on luminous insects, especially Diptera \ G. R. Osten-Sacken, 
Ent. M. M. XV. pp. 43 & 44. 
Stomoxys calcitrans, and a new species of Pangonia, the cause of an out- 
break of malignant pustule among cattle in New Caledonia ; Megnin & 
Germain, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. cxliv. & cxlv. 
S. H. Scudder notices the following fossil Diptera from the Green 
River shales : Chironomus sp., Dicranomyia primitiva, Scudd., p. 749, 
Diadocidia (?) terricola^ sp. n., and Sackenia sp., p. 750, Stenocinclis 
(g. n., near Dioctria, but the third longitudinal vein rises from the first 
before the middle of the wing, instead of from the second after its emis- 
sion from the first); typo, S. anomala (sp. n.), p. 751, Milesia quad, rata 
(sp. n.), p. 752, Chilosia ampla (sp. n.), p. 753, C. sp., Syrphus sp., 
Poliomyia (g. n., of doubtful position, between the Syrphidm, Pipunculida’,^ 
and Myopidce)^ p. 754, type, P. recta (sp. n.), p. 755, Dolickopus sp., 
Tachina sp., Sciomyza (?) manca (sp. n.), p. 756, and S. (?) disjecta 
(sp. n.), p. 758 ; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. 
Cecidomyiidji. 
Low, F. Mittheilungen fiber Gallmiicken. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxviii. 
pp. 387-406, pi. iv. 
This paper contains descriptions of new species, notes on various galls 
the flies of which are unknown, and remarks on the following species, 
the three first of which are discussed in detail : Cecidomyia hetulce, Win- 
nertz (pi. iv. figs. 4 a & b), G. salicina, Schrank, Diplosis aphidimyza, 
Rond., and D. centaurece^ Low. 
Tchernaieffsky, V. Sur une nouvelle maladie de la vigne. Troudy 
Ent. Ross. X. pp. 199-204, pi. ii. 
A paper entirely in Russian, but apparently relating to a species of 
Cecidomyia. 
Thomas, F. Ein neuer Stachelbeerfeind. Z. ges. Naturw. xlix. pp. 
130-135. 
A Cecidomyia larva, which destroys the blossoms of the gooseberry. 
The writer thinks that it may have been imported from America, and 
suggests its possible identity with G. grossularim, Fitch. 
Notes on 23 new galls produced by Cecidomyiidee ; id. op. cit. li. pp. 
703-706. 
Cecidomyia sp. feeding on cranberry noticed, and transformations 
figured ; A. S. Packard, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. x. p. 525. 
Cecidomyia ulmarice. The development of its galls described and 
figured ; E. A. Ormerod, Ent. xi. pp. 12-14, figs. 1-5. 
