THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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/era, Low, Conops costatus , Fabr., Belvoisia bifasciata , Fabr., ru/ipalpis, 
Macq., Pterotoznia fasciata, Wied., Urophora diaphana, Yan der Wulp, 
Tephrites bullans, Wied., Heterochroa' picta, Schin. (figured), and picti- 
pennis , Yan der Wulp. 
In breeding Diptera from galls, species that are not true gall-producers 
have been sometimes bred, and mistaken for the real occupants. Among 
these were Sciara tiliicola , Lo w, foliorum, Rad., Cecidomyia ocellaris, Ost.- 
Sack., C. strobilina , Rad., Diplosis gollmeri , Karsch, and Cecidomyia foil - 
arum , Low, •— bedeguar if ormans, Rad. Low, Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 217-220. 
Dipterous larvae beneath the human skin ; W. G. Smith, Ann. N. H. 
(5) xi. p. 213. 
Flies are probably a grave source of both infectious and parasitic dis- 
eases : Grassi, Arch. Ital. Biol. iv. pp. 205-208 ; Gazetta degli Ospedali 
(Milan, July 25, 1883, No. 59) ; Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. pp. 348 & 349. 
Dipterous parasites on Phylloxera in America; Riley, Canad. Ent. xv. 
p. 39. 
Shallots destroyed by larva? of Cyrtoneura stabulans , Linn., and Phorbia 
cepetorum , Meade ; Fletcher, Ent. M. M. xx. pp. 163 & 164. 
Epidosis defecta, Low, Diplosis folypori , Winn., Phora rufipes , Fabr., 
Anthomyia sp., Sciophila punctata. , Meig., and fasciata , Zett , and Lasio- 
soma pilosum, Meig., bred from a fungus ( Polyporus versicolor , Linn.) 
found on the trunk of a beech-tree in autumn; Girschner, Ent. Nachr. ix. 
p. 204. 
Gonia trifaria , Zell., $ , and Gonia capitata , De Geer, 5 ( Tachinidce ), 
and Trineura stictica, Meig., $ and aterrima , Fabr., ? ( Phoridce ), found 
in coitft ; id. Ent. Nachr. ix. p. 204. 
J. Schnabl has published an important paper (in Polish) on the 'collec- 
tion and preparation of Diptera ; Odbitka z. Pamietn. Fizyjogr. i. [1881] 
(c/. Wien. ent. Z. ii. p. 46). 
Reply to some remarks of Bigot ; Mik, Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 64-66. 
Directions for mounting the proboscis of a fly; Lofthouse, Microscop. 
News, iii. pp. 21 & 22, fig., and J. R. Micr. Soc, (2) iii. pp. 292 & 293. 
Popular article on house-flies ; Harrington, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1882, 
pp. 38-44, fig. 55 (head). 
Notes on a small collection o£ Diptera from the Arctic Regions ; Yan 
dor Wulp, Ent. Tijdsclir. xxvi. pp. xxiv.-xxvi. 
List of Diptera taken in the North of Scotland, chiefly in the province 
“ Dee ” ; Yice, Scot. Nat. (2) i. pp. 9-19. 
Undetermined fly troublesome on hills in Yorkshire in the time of 
Ray; Bloomfield, Naturalist, viii. pp. 93 & 94. 
10 species of Diptera noticed as new to Holland ; Yan der Wulp, Ent. 
Tijdsclir. xxvi. pp. cxxxvi. & cxxxvii. 
List of 137 Diptera occurring at Zwickau; Schlechtendal, JB. Yer. 
Zwickau, 1879, pp. 48-58. 
Fourth Supplement to list of Diptera of Kharkow ; Jaroschewsky, 
Trud. Nat. Ges. Kharkow, 1882. 
List of Diptera received from the Canary Islands; Yon Roder, Wien, 
ent. Z. ii. pp. 93-95. 
