188 Ins. 
DIPTKKA. 
Anthomyicif &c., which (as hfe says) in deference to the purists, is the 
present indispensable orthography. He himself evidently prefers Echi- 
nomia, Anthomia, &c. As to Echinomyia^ the original describer so 
corrected it. Would M. Bigot spell Bornhylius^ “ Bombulius ’’ P He asks 
why we do not write “ mia,” and enquires to what end is this multiplica- 
tion of vowels : to which it may be replied that we should write “ mia 
if we wished to refer to the Greek feminine of “ one,’’ but “ myia” if we 
wished to refer to “ a fly,’^ It may also be observed that Bigot {tom. cit.) 
describes new genera of flies with the termination “ -mys” as if they were 
Rodents, following the mistake of Stratiomys, corrected thirty years ago 
by Agassiz to Stratiomyia [and which should, from the derivation given 
by Agassiz, be apparently still further corrected to Stratiotomyia^. 
CECIDOMyilD^. 
Karsch, F. a. F. Revision der Gallmiicken. Munster: 1877, 8vo, 
pp. 68, pi. 
Au academical dissertation, containing descriptions of two new genera 
and three new species, with detailed descriplions of Cecidomyia hirti- 
cornis (Stag.), Zett., and C. niyritarsis (Stag.), Zett., from Stager’s types 
preserved in the Berlin Museum, The principal aim of the paper seems 
to be to disturb the existing nomenclature of the family by a strict 
applieatiou of the rule of priority. Much, however, may bo said against 
the author’s assumptions. 
F. Low, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. pp. 1-38, pi. i., in a supplement to his 
former papers (o^;. cit. 1873-75), describes various new species (from 
living specimens) and their economy, and adds particulars as to Ceci- 
domyia rosarum, Hdy., C. barbarece, Curt. (= sisymbrii^ Schrank), ulmarice 
and onobrychidis, Br.y asperulce^ Lw., Schr., ai'temisias, Bouche, 
terminalis, H. Lw., carpini, F. Lw., Diplosis loti. Deg., Asphondylia 
coronillce^ Vail., A. pimpinellce and thysselini, H. Lw., pericarpicola and 
daucif Br. (all four one species, renamed umbellatarum, p. 31), and Ilormo- 
myia millefolii, H. Lw. Various galls (without the insects), both new and 
already known, are also discussed and figured. 
References to British gall-producers noticed since Muller’s list in But, 
Ann. 1872 ; E. A. Fitch, Ent. x. p. 30. 
Cecidomyia-gvd\ 2 , observed on Juniper us, Lupinus, Audibertia, Garry a, 
Artemisia, and Baccharis, in California ; C. R. Osten-Sackeu, Bull. H. 8. 
Geol. Surv. iii. p. 11)2. 
Asphondylia. Observations on the species occurring near Glasgow, and 
their galls ; F. G. Binnie, P. N. H. Soc. Glasg. iii. pp. 111-114. 
Cecidomyia trifolii, F. Lw. ; gall, &c., described, id. 1. c. p. 114. C. 
betuljje andpranj, Kalt., galii, Winn., and pustularis, Bremi, and Ilormo- 
myia millefolii, Lw. j observations on galls, &c., and on galls of unknown 
species occurring in Scotland. Id. 1. c. pp. 182-185. 
Diplosis variegata, Macq., fig. 7, and wings, &c., of other Cecido- 
myiidce figured ; F, N. v. d. Wulp, Dipt. Neerl. i. pi. ii. 
Huplusia, g. n., Karsch 1. c. p. 16, for H. plumipes, sp. n., ibid., Brazil. 
