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frons, thorax, or legs. P. luhhocki, sp. n., p. 260, parasitic on ants (no 
species or locality mentioned). 
Phora formicarum^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 258, parasitic upon Lasiits niger. 
Syrphid;e. 
Osten-Sacken, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii., describes the following new 
genus and species : — 
Eupeodes, p. 328. Very like Syrphus, but with very largely developed 
6th abdominal segment and hypopygium in ^ ; scutellum unusually 
raised. E. volucris^ p. 329, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado. 
Melanostoma tigrina \_-num ] , p. 323, California. 
Syrphus intrudens, p. 326, opinator, p. 327, protriiuSy p. 328, California. 
Sphmrophoria micrura, p. 330, California. 
Allograpta fracta, p. 331, California. 
BaccTia lemur, p. 331, California, Wyoming, New Mexico, angusta, 
p. 332, California. 
Volucella avida, California, and satur, Colorado, Utah, p. 333. 
Temnocera setigera, p. 334, New Mexico. 
Eristalis stipator, p. 336, Colorado, California, &c. 
Pocota (not Plocota, as Schiner spells it) alopex, p. 338, cyanella, p. 339, 
California. 
Chrysochlamys dives, p. 340, Kentucky, nigripes, Massachusetts, and 
crcesus, Utah, p. 341. 
Sphecomyia brevicornis, p. 341, California. 
Orthoneura nigro-vittata, sp. n., H. Loow, Z. ges. Naturw. xlviii. [1876] 
p. 323, San Francisco. 
MusciDiE. 
Tachina parasitic upon the abdomen of DiapJieromera femorata and 
Bacillus rossii {Orthoptera) ; C. R. Osten-Sacken, Psyche, ii. p. 23. 
Lucilia hufonivora, Moniez [Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 198]. Reference to 
Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1865, p. 241, where is a note by Boie on larvae of a 
Dipteron attacking the soft parts of the mouths of toads in Bohemia ; 
M. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. xxvii. See also pp. xciii.-xcv., 
for further instances of Batrachians attacked in a similar manner, and 
for a reference to Batrachomyia, MacL. ; and p. clxxii. for opinion by 
Collin dfe Plancy and E. Taton, that the flies attack only sores already 
existing. Cf. also De Plancy, Bull. S. Z. Fr. ii. pp. 249-257, and Taton, 
tom. cit. pp. 259-268. 
J. M. F. Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. 243, though rejecting 
Calliphora, Melinda, Mufetia, Lucilia, and Chrysomyia (^Myiochrysa, 
Rond., wrongly written Microchrysa), Rob. Desv., adopts several anony- 
mous silbdivisions of Somomya, Rond, [which he somewhat more correctly 
gives as Somomyia, 1. c. p. 35 et seq. ; it should however be .written 
Somatomyia'], corresponding as much as possible with these deposed 
genera. Ochromyia fasciata, senegalensis, and lateralis, Mcq., exx. typp.. 
