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INSECTA, DIPTERA.
Eristalis foveifrons, Buenos Ayres ; sinuata, Sydney ; temporalis, California
; ventralis, China: spp. nn., Thorns. 1. c. pp. 488-491.
Syritta armipes, Cape of Good Hope; spinigerella, St. Helena: spp. nn.,
Thorns. I. c. pp. 502, 503.
Paragus crenulatus, sp. n., Thorns. I. c. p. 503, China.
Orihoprosopa binotata, sp. n., Thorns. I. c. p. 492, Sydney.
Mixogaster aphritinus, sp. n., Thorns. I. c. p. 491, Sydney.
PlPUNCULIDJS.
THOMSON, Opus. Ent. pp. 109-124, gives a review of the Swedish species
of Pipunculus, of which he considers Cephalops, Fall, and Chalarus, Wlk.,
to be subgenera. He describes in Latin 25 species, 3 of which he considers
new to science.
Pipunculus abscissus, armatus, China, spp. nn., Thorns. Eugen. Resa, pp. 513,
514 (1868).
Pipunculus xanthopus, terminalis, pulchripes, Sweden, spp. nn., Thorns.
Opusc. Ent. pp. 111-117.
PLATYPEZIDJE.
BERGENSTAMM, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xx. pp. 37, 38, Taf. iii. A, describes the
metamorphoses of Platypeza holosericea, Meig.
CONOPIDJE.
HENSEL, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 136, adds C. siynatus to the list of species found
near Berlin.
Conops claviventris, sp. n., Thorns. Eugen. Resa, p. 514 (1868), Sydney.
Myopa conjuncta, sp. n., Thorns. I. c. p. 515, California.
MUSCIDJE.
The arrangement of this family being still in a very unsettled state, the
Recorder has thought it best to follow the subfamilies marked out in Schiner's
Catalogue of European Diptera. The only alterations adopted are a reversal
of their order, as agreed to by Schiner himself in Verh. z.-b. Wien, xviii.;
and for temporary convenience the Ortalina include the genera arranged
under that family by Loew.
It will be most convenient to notice here two insects described by Loew
in 1870, of which the Recorder has not seen the original descriptions; and
as the genera appear to be new, he cannot refer them to their proper subfamilies.
They are described in Loew's paper on Diptera from Turkestan in
Nachr. Ges. Mose, and are
Apostrophus suspectus, no. 27, and
Anacampta robusta, no. 29.
Ocypterinee.
Lophosia setigera, sp. n., Thorns. Eugen. Resa, p. 627 (1868), California.
Tachininee.
WEYENBURGH, Tijd. Ent. (2) v. p. 201-206, T. 8, gives a full life-history
of Meigenia bombivora, V. d. Wulp.