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on the hills ; Chrysonotus bipunctatus. Scop., one specimen, at Bonhill, in July ; 

 Rhamphomt/ia ()ibba,'P\n., common ; ISmpis hicida, Ztt., common on late sallows 

 on Ihc hills ; CEdalia stigmatella, Ztt., one specimen, at Bonhill ; (E. holmgreni, 

 Ztt., common ; Hemerodroniia oratoria, Fin., scarce ; Thamnodromia vocaforia. 

 Fin., scarce ; Cher.sodromia cursitans, Ztt., not rare on the shore at Cardross ; 

 DoJichoptis phxopus, Hal., two specimens identified as this by Mr. Verrall were 

 taken in 1905 at Bonhill ; D. planitarsis, Fin., one male taken on the hill above 

 Murroch Glen iti May ; HypophyUus crinipes, several in Murroch Glen in 

 June; Hercostomus germanus, W., not rare ; Syntormon piimilus, Mg., locally com- 

 mon ; S. monilis, Wlk., occurring along with the last named ; Xiphandrium fascia- 

 turn, Mg., one male ; X. breoicorne, Curt., scarce ; Sympycnus seneicoxa, Mg., not 

 uncommon ; Aphvosylus ferox, Hal., not uncommon at Cardross ; Platypezafurcata, 

 Fin., abundant on the under-sides of a large tree-growing fungus at Strathleven ; 

 Chilosia proxima, Ztt., not scarce ; Hyetodesia pallida, F.,not rare on tree trunks ; 

 H. dispar, Fin., one ^ at Bonliill ; Mydiea nigritella, Ztt., possibly not uncommon, 

 but easily overlooked ; Spilogaster trigonalis, Mg., not scarce ; S. quadrum, F., 

 common ; Trichopticiis pulcher, Mde., rare ; Hydrophoria anthomyiea, Rnd., 

 scarce ; Mycophaga fungorum, Deg., scarce ; Chortophila curvicauda, Ztt., not un- 

 common on the hill in early summer ; C. sepia, Mg., not rare ; C. billbergi, Ztt., 

 scarce; Phorbia cilicrura, Rnd., scarce; Pegomyia hetse. Curt., one (J , Bonhill ; 

 Chilosia albltarsis, Ztt., one S ^ Bonhill; Azelia triquetra, W., common ; A. ater- 

 rima, Mg., o:'e S on fungi in autumn ; Ceratinostoma ostiorum, Fin., common at 

 Cardross ; Caelopa pilipes, Hal., Cardross ; AUophyla atricornis, W., on fungi in 

 August ; Eccoptomera loiigiseta, one specimen at Bonhill ; Blepharoptera in- 

 scripta, Mg., common ; Heteroniyza oculata. Fin., scarce ; S. atricornis, Mg., 

 scarce ; Tephrochlamys flavipes, Ztt., one specimen at Bonhill ; Mdoparea buccata, 

 Fin., Cardross ; Sciomyza glabricula, Fin., one specimen in Murroch Glen ; S. 

 scutellaris, two specimens at Strathleven ; Sapromyza longiseta, scarce ; <S. lupu- 

 liiia, F., one specimen at Cardross ; Leucopis griseola, Fin. ; Sphserocera monilis, 

 Hal., two specimens ; iS. subsultaus, F., common ; Limosina nivalis, Hal., one 

 specimen on fungi in December ; Conicera atra, scarce ; Phora lugiibris, Mg., P. 

 fAoraci>a, Mg., scarce ; P. carinlfrons, Ztt., P. lutea, Mg., and P. rujipes, Mg., 

 common. This list gives only a selection of the more interesting species met with, 

 and only includes a few of those species that have not previously been recorded 

 from the West of Scotland, Where no locality is mentioned, Bonhill is the place 

 of capture. I have to thank the Hon. N. C. Rothschild for naming the Pulicidw, 

 and also Mr. J. E. Collin for examining several of the Acalypterate Muscidx in the 

 list given. — J. R. Malloch, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire : February, 1907. 



Illustrations of Bbitish Blood-sucking Flies, with Notes : by 

 E. E. Austen. Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. 

 London, 1906. 



The special importance that all blood-sucking Flies have acquired owing to the 

 recent discoveries of their association with the causation and dissemination of 



