198 Ins. 
DIPTERA. 
Asilus not injurious to domestic animals [as supposed by the Ancients]; 
J. R. Megnin, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. pp. cxxxiv. & cxxxv. 
Dasypogon hilinibatum^ Big., = Calliniciis castaneus, Loew; TricUs 
notata. Big., = I), sexfasciatus^ Wied. : J. Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
ix. p. Ixviii. 
Trypanea {Promachus) apivora, Fitch, nee Walk., renamed Jitchi ; 
Osten-Sacken, Sm. misc. Coll. (270) p. 235, note 121. 
Flanetolestes, g. n., Arribdlzaga, 1. c. Type, Laphria coarctata, Perty. 
Cyrtopogon lyratus, sp. n., Osten-Sacken, Sm. misc. Coll. (270), p. 202, 
Catskills, White Mountains. 
Microstylum miles, sp. n., Karsch, Z. ges, Naturw. (3) iv. p. 379, pi. iv. 
fig. 3 (wing), Chinchoxo. 
Xiphocerus susurrus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 380, pi. iv. fig. 4, Chinchoxo. 
Empidj?. 
Empis A-viitata, uruguayensis, and vicina, spp. nn., Arribdlzaga, Nat. 
Arg. i. pp. 292-294, Baradero, &c. 
Tachydromia sanguinea, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 294, Baradero. 
Ilemerodromia vittata, sp. n., id. ibid.^ Baradero. 
Dolichopodidjc. 
Porphyrops signi/er, sp. n., Osten-Sacken, Sm. misc. Coll. (270), p. 242, 
New York. 
Syrphidji. 
Batelli, a. Oontribuziono all’ Anatomia ed alia Fisiologia della Larva 
deir Enstalis tenax. Bull. Ent. Ital. xi. pp. 77-120, pis. i.-v. ; Ann. 
N. II. (6) iii. pp. 94 & 95. 
Remarks on various Syrphidee ; Van der Wulp, Tijdschr. Ent. xxii. 
pp. xci. & xcii. 
Syrphus mellinus destroyed by a parasitic fungus of the genus Ento- 
mophihora^ and resting in numbers on a grass {Molinia ccerulea)^ dead or 
dying ; Corun & Brogniart, CR. Ent. Belg. xxii. pp. xxxvi.-xxxviii., and 
Assoc. Fr. vii. pp. 690-693. 
Eristalis tenaXy Linn., recorded from Illinois ; T. E. Bean, Psyche, ii. 
p. 260. 
Sphecomyia vespiformiSj Gorski, from Europe, = S. vittata, Wied., from 
N. America ; V. v. Roder, Ent. Nachr. v. pp. 96-98. 
MerapioideSy g. n., J. Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 1. Allied to 
Milesia ; type, M. villosus, sp. n., 1. c., Georgia (America). 
Crioprora, g. n., Osten-Sacken, Sm. misc. Coll. (270) p. 251. Allied to 
Pocota ; the face forms a short snout, prolonged anteriorly rather than 
downward, with no tubercle in the middle, and with an emargination at 
the tip. To contain Drachypalpus cyanogaster, Loew, and Pocota cyanella 
and alopeXy O.-S. 
