The Myopae are fond of flowers, and the following species 

 are natives of our islands. 



* Ind joint of the antenncE stouter and a little longer than the^rd, 



1. picta Pans. 54. 22. 



In Edinburgh botanic-garden, Mr. James Duncan ; and in 

 the vicinity of London. 



2. buccuta Linn. 



May and June, hedges, Suffolk, J. C. 



3. testacea Linn. — buccata Panz. 12. 24? 



May, Coomb Wood, on umbelliferas ; Norfolk, Cambridge, 

 Edinburgh, and Holy wood near Belfast. 



4. dorsalis Fab. — ferruginea Panz. 22. 24. 



May, July and August, hedges, round London. 



5. ferruginea Linn. — Meig. v. 4. pi. 37. J'. 11. 4' 12. 



End of June Darent, and July near Thetford, J. C. ; the 

 North and West of England, Edinburgh and Ireland. 



6. fasciata Meig. — ephippium Fab. 



I took one the end of August on the hills near Ramsdown, 

 Hants, and Mr. Haliday found another near Kenmai'e. 

 6^. occulata JVied. I do not remember on whose authority 



this has been admitted as British. 



** 2ndJoitit of antennce not stouter^ but twice as long as the 3rd. 



7. atra Fab. — Panz. 12. 23. — annulata i'^a^. — femorata, Fab. — 

 cinerascens Meig. — maculata Meig. — micans Meig. Klass. 

 vars. 



August, on flowers near Ventnor in the Isle of Wight; 

 Bourne-mouth, Hants, and Dover, J. C ; sunny banks Ire- 

 land, Mr. Haliday, and near Edinburgh, Mr* Duncan. 



8. pusilla Meg. 

 Found near London. 



9. fulvipes Desv.—Curt. Brit. Ent.pl- 677. S- 

 Ash-colour, sericeous, 2nd joint of antennae long clavate 

 and ochreous beneath, 3rd ferruginous inside at the base, 

 4th joint minute; crown of head leiruginous, blackish at the 

 base; face satiny-white with a narrow shining white margin 

 to the eyes : thorax with a black central stripe and 2 lateral 

 triangular ones: abdomen transversely rugose with reflected 

 lights, the apex and scutel shining black: wings very pale 

 fuscous with a yellow tint, brightest and deepest at the costa, 

 nervures brown : halteres yellowish-white : legs dark ochre- 

 ous, clothed with black hairs: thighs brownish outside: 

 anterior coxae and tibiae satiny-white outside, hinder tibiae 

 brown near the base and at the apex ; tarsi black ; pulvilli 

 ochreous. 



The specimen figured I found the 9th of August in the Isle 

 of Bute, not far from Loch Fad. 



The Plant is Lepidium campestre, var. glabra, Mithridate 

 Mustard, communicated last July from Ryde byDr.Bromfield. 



