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however, winged males are sometimes met with in woods inhabited 

 by roe-deer ; these differ considerably in appearance from the apterous 

 males found in company with females among the hair of the host, 

 being paler in colour and more slender in the abdomen, while the 

 males that ha\e lost their wings are more like the females, and are 

 darker in colour with a broader and stouter abdomen. Winged 

 individuals of both sexes have been caught flying round a dead roe, 

 but the females all shed their wings in dying; the Museum collection 

 contains a number of males with wings, but not a single winged 

 female. 



With two exceptions all the specimens of this species in the 

 Museum series were taken on roe deer at Whatcombe, Blandford 

 Dorset, between September 19th and October 26th, 1895, and 

 presented by the late Mr. J. C. Mansel-Plexdell. Besides these 

 there are also a male from the same locality, taken on October 17th, 

 1895, on a horse after passing through hazel-bushes in Houghton 

 \\'ood, which is frequented by roe deer (J. C. Mauscl-PlcydcH) ; and 

 another male from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, caught by Colonel 

 Yerbury, on October nth, 1897, on his own neck, after passing 

 through Stoke Edith Park, in which there are fallow deer. A 

 winged male figured by Curtis (' British Entomology,' 1824) under 

 the name HiEviobora pallipcs, is said to ha\e been taken in the 

 New Forest, Hants, about the middle of September. 1822, on the 

 clothes of a Mr. J. Chant. 



Lipoptcmi ccji'i doubtless occurs throughout ICuroiJC, and closely 

 allied species are found in other parts of the world. In 

 February, 1901, a specimen of L. a-ti'i was taken by Mr. P. S. 

 Stammwitz, near Johannesburg, Transvaal, under circumstances 

 pointing to the possibility that it had been introduced into South Africa 

 \\ ith remounts durintr the South African War. 



