whitish : halteres whitish-ochre : tarsi tipped with black, 

 anterior with the 2 basal joints in the first pan- a little di- 

 lateil, with a black spot on the back of each. 

 On Larches, e. Sept. & Oct., sometimes in wmdows, Chfden. 



2 cellaris Linn. ? Taken with the former one at Clitden. 

 Mr Walker has frequently observed il struggling m ale, 

 but not drowned ; and Mr.R. Brown showed me vast 

 quantities of the pupseinthe tubs of vinegar that contamed 

 the buds and flowers of the Rajlesia Arnoldt. It is found 

 all the year round in cellars and on windows. 



2\ funebris i^aS.-erythrophthalma Panzl 7. 24 Mr. Hali- 

 day bred the fly from Boleti, the middle of October and 

 one of the pupee is figured in the plate {vide fig. F, the 

 upper extremity being the head). 



2\ cZevavla HaL-CurL Brit. Ent.pL 4.73. Chfden Mr. 

 Haliday says this differs from D . fenestrarum in having 

 loncrer antennae; the thorax is opake and unusually 

 hai?y : it is also larger : the dusky blotch of the thorax is 

 constant in this. I found great numbers in windows early 

 in October, probably out of the same Boleti from which 

 D. fioiebris came. . 



- phalerata Meig. tab. 59./. 3. In Boleti, Chfden. 



4. fenestrarum Fall.— Mag. v. 6. p. 83. 4 



5. transversa? Fall.-Meig.S4. 5. Chfden and Southgate. 

 Mr. Haliday says, " It agrees with the characters ex- 

 cept in size, being smaller than D. phakrata.' 



6. virginea Meig. 84.6. Southgate and Cli den. 



9. melanogasterM./5-.85.9. "Belly pale with an interrupted 



black band down the middle." Clifden and Southgate. 

 12 trl^iisFalL— Meig. 86. \2. Southgate. 

 \l graminum Fall.-Meig. 86 13. Clifden m meadows 

 throughout the summer, and Southgate ; Isle ot W ight, 

 beginning of October, J. C. 

 16. littoralis? Meig. 87. 16. Southgate. 

 20 flavaFa//.-M^/g.88.20. Rare, near Belfast, in meadows, 

 in the summer; the thorax has faint ferruginous Imes 

 placed as in D. graminum. These two are rather dissi- 

 milar from the rest. 

 The Plant is Drosera anglica (Great Sundew or English 

 Flv-trap). Insects settling upon the inside of the leaves are 

 caucrht and retained as shown on the leaf under the insect re- 

 presented flying. I have always imagined that the glands a 

 the apex of the hairs emitted a glutmous secretion which fiist 

 held Ihe insect, and as it struggled, more hairs were attached, 

 until the end of the leaf was bent down Withermg gives 

 a long account of this peculiar power in the Drosera, and theie 

 are many observations upon it in Loudon's Magazine of ^ at 

 Hist. Those who wish to see the flower expanded s\ion\6. 

 gather plants with buds that promise to open the following 

 day, and by putting the roots in water and placing the plant 

 in the sun they will accomplish their object. 



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