ZOOLOGY. 



LIST OP DIPTEEA TAKEN IN THE NORTH OP SCOTLAND, 



CHIEPLY IN THE PROVINCE "DEE." 



By W. ARMSTON VICE, M.B. 



[ N Scotland, as elsewhere, the Diptera have been so much ne- 

 *- glected by entomologists that but little is known of their 

 distribution and abundance or rarity ; and it may without rashness 

 be assumed that any thorough examination of almost any locality 

 in the country will add largely to what is yet on record in regard 

 to Scottish Diptera. Hence I have thought that it may prove of 

 interest, in the present lack of information, to give in systematic 

 form the results of collections made by myself among some of the 

 groups of Diptera in the north of Scotland, chiefly in the counties 

 of Aberdeen and Kincardine, and to a less extent in the north of 

 Forfarshire, in Sutherlandshire, and in Orkney. 



In the Scottish Naturalist for 1874, there are some articles on 

 Diptera of the districts treated of in the following list — viz., at 

 p. 199, by Mr. G. H. Verrall, on "Diptera at Braemar, Aberdeen, 

 and Aberlady, including six species not hitherto recorded as 

 British ; " and by myself on " A new British Dipteron (Laphria 

 flavd)" p. 120, on " Syrphidas of the Dee district," p. 203, and 

 on "Diptera in the North of Scotland," p. 275, this last paper 

 dealing only with those insects taken by me in Orkney and Suther- 

 landshire. Since these were published, no additions have been 

 made, so far as I am aware, to the recorded lists from Scotland 

 north of the Tay. Mr. Verrall's paper was the result of a few 

 days spent in the localities named in it in July, 1873, and though 

 of much interest, is of course limited because of the shortness of 

 time spent in each ; while my own papers either treat only of par- 

 ticular families of Diptera, or were also results of only a very brief 

 stay in the localities treated of. Hence the following list, though 

 making no pretensions to completeness, includes a number of 



