BY OSWALD B. LOWER. Ot) 



may be looked for in June and July." It will be thus seen that 

 its occurrence in Australia is not mentioned. I believe Mr. 

 W. H. Miskin (Trans. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. viii. Pt. i.) was 

 the first Australian entomologist to record its occurrence in 

 Australia. I am quite aware that the insect under notice is 

 considered by some of my friends as distinct from D. Livornica. 

 The late Henry Edwards was of that opinion until I showed him 

 specimens from Africa and Europe, when he acknowledged his 

 error. The series I have before me, numbering nearly 100 speci- 

 mens, show sliafht individual differences but not sufficient to 

 warrant a new specific name being given to any one of them. 



