238 Ins. 
DIPTERA. 
u Elephant-fly ” troublesome in Central Africa, and leaving a strong 
scent of honey on the fingers when crushed ; Emin-Bey, Geogr. MT. 
xxix. p. 326. 
Cecidomyiidje. 
Wachtl, F. A. Einige neue europaische Gallmiicken (Cecidomyiden). 
Centr. ges. Forstw. 1883, pp. 476-478. (Cf. Wien. ent. Z. ii. p. 285). 
Cecidomyia. Discovery of supposed spinnerets in the larvae ; Mik, 
Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 40 & 41. Fungus on juniper, simulating galls pro- 
duced by these flies ; Fitch & White, P. E. Soc. 1883, pp. vi., xxii., & xxiii. 
Injurious to asters ; Letzner, JB. schles. Ges. lx. pp. 309 & 310. Para- 
sitic on Phylloxera ; Fyles & Hagen, Canad. Ent. xv. pp. 83 & 84. C. 
leguniinicola and destructor , Say, noticed ; Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 
1882, pp. 68 & 69. C. saliciperda , Duf. : transformations ; Schlechtendal, 
JB. Yer. Zwickau, 1879, pp. 26 & 27. C. salicis-batatus destroyed by 
Platygaster sp. ; Kellicott, Bull. Buff. Nat. Field Club, March, 1883 
(cf. Psyche, iv. p. 79). C. violce , Low, Tr. Essex Club, iii. p. lxiv. 
Diplosis tritici, Kirby (Hessian Fly) discussed in detail ; Packard, Rep. 
U. S. Ent. Comm. iii. chap. viii. pp. 198-248, map iii. pis. iv. & v., and 
App. pp. 3-49 (reprints of articles by various authors), and Rep. Ins. 
Illin. x. pp. 193-232 (cf. also Lintner, Rep. Ins. N. York, i. pp. 6 & 7). 
Lasioptera populnea , sp. n., Wachtl, Centr. ges. Forstw. 1883, p. 477, 
Austria. 
Cecidomyia baccarum , p. 477, moravice and bupleuri i p. 478, id. 1. c. } 
Austria; C. hygrophila , Mik, Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 209-216, pi. iii., 
Austria : spp. nn. 
Mycetophilidj:. 
Beling, T. Der Heerwurm, die Heerwurmsmiicke, und die Thomas- 
Trauermiicke. Z. Naturw. lvi. pp. 253-271. 
The literary and life -history of Sciara militaris , Meig., is discussed. 
It is the larva of this species, and not of S. thomce, Linn., which is known 
as the “ Heerwurm.” 
Sciophila punctata, Meig., fasciata, Zett., and Lasiosoma pilosum, Meig. 
Larvse described ; Girschner, Ent. Nachr. ix. p. 204. 
Sciara morio , Fabr. (?) : transformations noticed and figured ; Belle- 
voye, Bull. Soc. Metz (2) xiv. p. 196 [1876]. S. ocellaris , Comst., dis- 
cussed; Mik, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. pp. 190-192. 
Paratinia sciarina , Mik. Yariation noticed by him ; Wien. ent. Z. ii. 
pp. 39 & 40. 
Sciara vitticollis , p. 182, riparia , pumilio, and morionella , p. 183, 
spp. nn., Holmgren, Ent. Tidskr.iv. Matotshkin, &c. 
Sciophila fuliginosa, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 189, Matotshkin. 
Boletina erythropyga and fuscula , spp. nn., id. 1. c. pp. 189 & 190, 
Matotshkin. 
