238 Ins, 
DIPTERA, 
Hormomyia reaumuriana^ sp. n., F. Low, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxviii. 
p. 387, pi. iv. figs. 1 a-c, Europe. 
Cecidomyia lichtensteini, 8. Europe, p. 392, pi. iv. figs. 2 a-c, and laricis, 
8tyria, p. 393, spp. nn., id. 1. c. 
Diplosis corylana, id. 1. c. p. 396, pi. iv. fig. 6, Vienna ; D. pini-rigida, 
A. S. Packard, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. x. p. 527, Maine : spp. nn. 
Bibionidji. 
On fossil species belonging to the genera Plecia and Protomyia ; 
A. Giard, 0. Brongniart, & Oustalet, Bull. Sci. Nord, (2) i. pp. 12-16, 
73-81, 106 & 107. 
Protomyia oustaleti^ C. Brongniart, is now referred by him to Plecia ; 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. xlvii. & xlviii. Many fossil species re- 
ferred to Protomyia and Bibio belong to Plecia, and the genus Protomyia 
will probably have to be suppressed. See also Oustalet, op. cit. pp. lx. & 
Ixi. 
SlMULlIDJJ. 
Simulium reptans, Latr., and maculatum, Meig., destructive to horses 
and cattle in the meadows of the Elbe; Rudow, Ent. Nachr. iv. pp. 213 
& 214. 
OHlRONOMIDiE. 
Chironomus plumosus (Blood-worm). Larva and pupa described and 
figured ; E. Cox, Ent. xi. pp. 261-263. 
Chironomus sp. Larva described and figured ; id. Sci. Gos. xiv. pp. 
269 & 270. 
BLEPHAROCERlDiE. 
Loew, H. Revision der Blepharoceridoe. Z. E. Ver. schles. vi. [1877] 
pp. 64-98, plate. 
Not seen by the Recorder ; one species (JLiponeura brevirostris) is de- 
scribed as new. 
OULICID.®. 
“ Kunga cake,” a substance extensively used for food by the natives in 
the neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa, is prepared from swarms of a small 
species of Corethra ; A. Eaton, P. E. Soc. 1878, p. Ivi. 
Culex mosquito. On the presence of hsematozoa in its blood ; T. R. 
Lewis, P. A. S. B. 1878, pp. 89-93. 
Limnobiidji. 
Trochobola, Osten-Sacken. J. Mik discusses the three described 
species — annulata, L., argus, Say (possibly a variety of the first), and 
ccesarea, O.-S., which is undoubtedly distinct ; Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxviii. 
pp. 617-625, pi. X. figs. 7-12 (details of T. annulata and ccesarea). 
