BLEPIlAROCEKIDiE TIFULID-E. 
Ins . 239 
Blepharoceridac. 
Brauer, F. Ueber die Yerwandschaft und system atische Stellung der 
Blepharoceriden. Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 1-4. 
The larval characters show the relationship of this family to the 
Ortliorrliapha Encephala, to which tribo Brauer had already conjecturally 
referred it. 
CuLICIDAC. 
On mosquitoes at Loango ; Giissfeldt, Loango Expedition, iii. pt. ii. 
pp. 295 & 296. 
ChIRONOMIDjE. 
Balbiani, — . Sur la signification des cellules polaires des Insectes. 
C. R. xcv. pp. 927-929. 
Contains a detailed account of the transformations of the polar cel- 
lules in the course of the development of the egg of Chironomus. 
Corethra. Larva noticed ; Pavesi, Rend. 1st. Lomb. (2) xiv. pp. 613-615. 
Tanypus , Moig. The retractilo antonnno of tho larva described and 
figured ; Meinort, Ent. Tidskr. iii. pp. 83-86, figs. 8-10. 
Diplosis (?) grassator , sp. n., Fyles, Cauad. Ent. xiv. pp. 237-239, 
fig. 25. Parasitic on Phylloxera vastatrix in Canada. 
TlPULIDiE. 
Wallengren, H. D. J. Revision af Skandinaviens Tipulidce. Ent. 
Tidskr. iii. pp. 13-30. 
In the concluding portion of this paper the Swedish species of six 
genera are described (none new). 
Westiiofp, F. Ueber den Bau des Hypopygiums der Gattung Tipula , 
Meig., mit Beriichsichtigung seiner gcnerischen und specifischon Bo- 
deutung, nebst eiuem systematischen Verzeichnisse aller bisher in 
der Provinz Westphalen aufgefundenen Arten aus der Familie der 
Tipulidce. l stier Theil, pp. 62, pis. 6. Inaugural Dissertation, Mun- 
ster : 1882. 
Not seen by the Recorder ; an abstract is given in Wien. ent. Z. i. 
pp. 317-319. 
Pty chopter a albimana , Fabr., noticed ; Costa, Atti Acc. Nap. ix., 6, 
p. 44. 
Dicranomyia saltans , Dol. Structure and habits noticed ; Osten- 
Sacken, B. E. Z. xxvi. p. 88. 
Ctenophora atrata, Linn., and var. ruficornis , noticed ; Rossi, Ent. Nachr. 
viii. pp. 296 & 297. 
Mongoma , Westw. Generic characters discussed ; Cylindrotoma albi- 
tarsis, Dol., and Limnobia trentepohli , Wied., probably belong to this 
