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been displayed on account of my having given a manuscript 

 name only to Halictophagus CurtiszV, I request the favour of 

 the following appearing in print : — 



Genus Cordulia Leacli^ &c. ; Libellula Xzw., &c. Species 

 CurtiszV Dale. Viridi-senea ; abdomine medio flavo-maculatis 

 ( $ compresso et alis flavescentibus.) Habitat: Parley Heath, 

 Hants, in June, J. C. Dale : Ramsdown, Hants, in May, 

 J. Curtis, Esq. ; Braunton Burrows, Devon, J. Cocks, Esq. 

 About the size of C. ag^nea. Brassy green ; body compressed, 

 with a row of oblong yellow spots down the back, absent on 

 the 7th and 8th joints only ; head notched in front : wings 

 very pale greenish yellow, slightly yellow at the base in the 

 male; yellow- brown in the female, along the costa of all the 

 wings, suffused to their centre ; stigma and nervures piceous. 



The above is sufficient, I believe, to distinguish it from all 

 other species at present known ; but I hope my friend Curtis 

 will now be enabled to give us a figure and a better descrip- 

 tion, without having his modesty called in question by being 

 gratuitously made subject to the imputation of his naming an 

 insect after himself. — J". C Dale, Sept, 1 833. 



Of the Genus Oxycera Mr. Dale and myself have [in 1832] 

 succeeded in making out eight or ten species (I beheve only 

 three have been noticed by Mr. Stephens), and we are yet in 

 hope of discovering more ; although at Pinny Cliff, near Lyme, 

 where I first discovered one new species last year, they are 

 extremely local, and almost confined to one or two trees. 

 — Francis Or pen Morris. Charmauth, Dorset, Sept. 1832. 



Two Facts on the Dung-jiy [Scatophaga stercordria). — I have 

 frequently found this insect, when dead, firmly attached 

 round the stem of an ear of corn, &c., and its body here 

 and there covered with a white dust resembling mould. 

 During last year, 1832, I met with only one example; but, 

 during the previous year, I must have noticed a hundred at 

 least. They are fixed in precisely the attitude of life, as if 

 only resting for a short time ; and, from this appearance, may 

 have escaped general observation. 



While standing (in 1832) under an oak tree at Hamp- 

 stead, something fell down from the boughs upon the grass, 

 in which it produced a loud humming noise. I searched 

 for it, and found it to be a common bluebottle fly, spinning 

 round upon the earth, and uttering that peculiar buzz which 

 it makes when struggling with a spider ; and firmly attached 

 to it was a dung-fly, which was rather reluctant to loose its 

 hold : before, however, I could open a pill-box to receive 

 them, they had separated, and flown off in different directions. 

 What could be the purpose of the attack ? — James Fennell, 



