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Stevcnia metadata, Fin. One, in market garden, Aberlady, 27th 



July 1901. 



Dryomyza decrepita, Ztt. , Bavelaw, August 1898. 

 Loxocera aristata, Pz. 2 < 's, Luffness Links, July 1898. 

 Micropeza latcralis, Mg. $, Polton, August 1901. 

 Seoptera vibrans, L. $ , Salton, August 1902. 

 Urophora solstitialis, L. ^ , Luffness Links, July 1898. 

 Sphenella marginata, Fin. , near Balerno, August 1898. 

 Enaresta conjuncta, Lw. $ , Thornton, Fife, August 1898 ; 9 , near 



Dunfermline, October 1897. 

 Sapromyza affinis, Ztt. 9, Newpark, Midlothian, iith July 1900; 



taken from a Crabro varius which was carrying it to its burrow. 



The species is not in Verrall's list of British Diptera, but Mr. 



Collin, to whom I am indebted for the identification of my 



specimen, tells me he has examined several other British 



examples which he is recording. 

 Balioptera tripunctata, Fin. Near Roslin, October 1900; in flood 



refuse, Cramond, October 1903. B. combinata, L., 9 ; Thornton, 



August 1898. 



Pekthophila lutea, Fin. $ , Linlithgow, August 1899. 

 Meroinyza Iceta, Mg. Gullane, July 1898. 

 Chlorops tizniopus, Mg. $, Craigentinny, August 1898; Heriot, 



June 1898. C. speciosa, Mg. Two $ 's, Dreghorn, July 



1893. 



Besides the above, I find I have also in my collection specimens 

 of the following interesting species : 

 Paragus tibiahs, Fin. Two <?'s taken loth June 1902, at a bank 



near Aberdour, Fife, in which small Halicti, with which the 



species is supposed to have some connection, had their 



burrows. 

 Microchrysa polita, L. Aberlady, August 1896; Morningside, 



August 1898. M. flavicornis, Mg. Luffness, July 1898. 

 Berts chalybeata, Forst. Near Roslin, May 1895. 

 Empis tessellata, F. Drumshoreland, June 1900. 

 Ant ho my ia pluvial is, L. Near Falkland, August 1895. 

 Calobata petronella, L. Polton, June 1901. 

 Spilographa zoe, Mg. Duddingston, 24th May 1895. 

 Acidia cognata, W. Roslin, July 1896. A. heraclei, L. Linlith- 

 gow, August 1899. 

 Nycteribia latreillii, Leach. In June 1891, I took and fortunately 



preserved a specimen of this curious little insect off a Daub- 



enton's Bat from Dunbar. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Chrysonotus bipunetatus, Scop., in the Tweed District. It is 



with pleasure that I am able to record the capture of a female 



specimen of this rare species of Dipteron by my friend Mr. J. W. 



Bowhill, in the month of August 1902. So far as I am aware, there 



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