238 Ins. 
DIPTEEA. 
Fall. (= Anthomyia cinerciscens , Wied., = C. vicina , Macq.), and Iletero- 
chroa picta, Schin. 
The Diptera EromocJueta generally havo contiguous oyes in the males, 
and are aerial species, while the Diptera Clicetophora generally have non- 
contiguous eyes and strong legs ; Osten-Sacken, Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 91 
& 92. 
J. Mik publishes an abstract of Osten-Sacken’s Essay on Comparative 
Chsetotaxy: SB. z.-b. Wien, xxxii. pp. 8-16; Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 
219-229 ; cf. also Karsch, Biol. Centralbl. ii. pp. 178-181, and Mik, Wien, 
ent. Z. i. pp. 121-123 : translated into Dutch, with remarks by Van der 
Wulp ; Tijdschr. Ent. xxv. pp. xci.-cix., woodcuts. 
On Diptera injurious to fruit in S. Italy and Sicily ; Palumbo, Nat. 
Sicil. i. pp. 93-96. 
Notes on Diptera , apparently relating to the wings and poisers; 
Poletaeff, Troudy Ent. Ross. xii. pp. 222-230. 
Veronica. Various species fertilized by Diptera ; Mackenzie, Stapley, 
& Ransom, Nature, xxvii. pp. 127, 149, 150, & 174. 
Osten-Sacken protests against enforcing the law of priority in the 
nomenclature of Diptera ; 1. c. pp. 191-193. 
Synonymic notes on Diptera ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. xviii. 
& xix. 
Column of gnats ; Sci. Goss, xviii. p. 282. 
Dipterous ova attached to the tusks of female Indian elephants ; Cob- 
bold, Tr. L. Soc. (2) ii. pp. 248 & 249. 
Notes on parasitic Diptera ; Meade, Ent. xv. p. 24. 
CeCIDOMYIIDA!]. 
Dipterous galls on Viola tricolor, L., Prunella grandijlora, Jacq., and 
Senecio nemorensis, L., noticed ; Thomas, SB. bot. Ver. Brandenburg, 
xxiii. ; cf. Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 12-14. 
Cecidomyia leyuminicola , Lintn., and trifolii, noticed as injurious to 
clover ; Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, pp. 38-43, figs. 12-14, and p. 45, 
fig. 17. 
Villigera frauenfeldi, Karsch, is not a Cecidomyid, but a Coccid ; Mik, 
Wien. ent. Z. i. p. 63. 
Cecidomyia picece , Henschel, CB. Forstwesen Wien, vii. pp. 505-507, 
figs. 27-30 ; C. Iccwii , Mik, Wien. ent. Z. i. p. 265 : both from Austria. 
Ilormomyia bergenstammi , sp. n., Wachtl, Wien. out. Z. i. p. 289, pi. iv. 
figs. 1— lc (galls), Corfu. 
Mycetophilim;. 
Sciara ocellaris , Ost.-Sack. Life-history ; Comstock, Rep. Ins. 1881, 
pp. 10-12, and Riley, Rep. Ins. 1882, pp. 202-204, pi. xvii. 
Bibionim:. 
Bibio pomonce. Heaps of dead and dying flies observed on a road ; 
Hanson & Meade, Naturalist, viii. p. 10. 
