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1 do not know whether other Ornithoinyias may be found 

 in connection with Lagopus scoticus, though the point is of some 

 interest. I believe, however, that O. Jagopodis is not confined to 

 the species (or race) Lagopus scoticus, but will be found to occur in 

 Scandinavia on the willow grouse, L. albus ; there being specimens 

 in the British Museum of Natural History found on the willow grouse 

 in Norway that are, I believe, O. lagopodis. 



Mrs. Duff Dunbar informs me that the Ornithomyia lagopodis 

 may be found freely in larders where freshly-killed grouse has been 

 placed, and that after a short time they leave the birds and may be 

 found on the windows. This fly will bite human beings. 



All the British specimens of O. lagopodis I have seen come from 

 the northern half of Scotland, and the fly occurs there apparently 

 from June to October ; the following being, however, all the records 

 I can give : — 



Nethy Bridge, end of June, 190G, by swee])ing, one specimen, 

 D. S. ; Boat o'Garten, 28. VII. 1902, Miss A. AUard, and 30.V1I.1902, 

 Dr. Jenkinson, one specimen each ; Caithness, Mrs. L. Duff Dunbar, 

 freely in September, rarely in October, 1906 ; Blair Atholl,in August 

 and September, 1906, A. E. Shipley. In all, 26 specimens ; the 

 males in this series being much fewer than the females. 



Cambridge : February 9th, 1907. 



ON A EEMAKKABLE NEW EAEWIG {DERMATOPTERA) FROM 

 PORTUGUESE WEST AFRICA. 



BY MALCOLM BUEE, B.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Dacnodes, nov. gen. 

 In faniiliam Pygidicraiiidarum locandum ; antenncc 3o-segmentat(B, 

 segwentis cylindricis ; cajnit depressum ; pronotum planum; elytra alceque 

 desunt ; mesunotum amplum, planum, humeria liaud carinatis ; metanotum 

 amplum ; j)cdes comp)resf<i ; tarsi compressi, segmento prima elongato, secundo 

 hrevi, cylindrico ; forcipis bracchia rohusta, vaUda. 



Superficially closely resembles certain Pygidicrana in form, size, 

 and uniform, but differs in the total absence of any rudiments of 

 organs of flight. It is perhaps related to Karschiella and Bormansia, 

 but lacks many of the remarkable characters of those genera, includ- 

 ing the thickened antennae. 



Dacnodes wellmani, sp. n. 

 Statura magna, robusta ; colore {in speciminihus siccis) testaceo, atro- 



