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Syntemna (?) alpicola, Strohl, in Morayshire.— On September 23rcl, 1910, 

 sweeping bracken on a steep bank facing Logie House on the Findhorn above 

 Forres, I took a fungus-gnat, which I entered at the time as " apparently a new 

 genus near Glaphyroptera." On coming home I found that Strobl had described 

 what seems to be the same insect under the above name in " Die Dipteren von 

 Steiermark," Theil 3, pp. 25, 26 (= Mitth. des naturw. Vereines fur Steiermark, 

 1894, p. 145). Mine is a female, and I failed last autumn to come across any more 

 specimens. I have not been able so far to see S. morosa, Winn., on which the 

 genus Syntemna is founded, but the wings of the two species as shown in Genera 

 Insect or%im, pi. 5, figs. 28, 29, are very different ; and, in fact, Winnertz's 

 characterisation of the genus has to be altered in this respect. There are some 

 points in which my insect does not agree with Strobl's description, e.g., the spiu-s 

 on the hind legs are not nearly as long as the metatarsi. This may be a sexual 

 character. The body is very long and tapering, and the long lamellae are 

 conspicuously two-jointed. This species is an addition to the British " List." — 

 F. Jenkinson, Cambridge : January 19th, 1912. 



Capture in the Netv Forest of a MycetophUid, supposed to he Syntemna 

 morosa, Winn. — As far back as November, 1910, I sent a few Mycetophilidse to 

 Mr. A. E. J. Carter for inspection, and he rettirned one of them, taken 27/9/09 

 in my garden at Lyndhurst, as a Syntemna, a genus not yet recorded as British, 

 and he thought the species came near "morosa, Winn." He did not like, how- 

 ever, to speak positively, but hoped I would get some one to confirm it with a 

 view to recording. This I was unable to do, and having only one specimen I 

 did not like risking it again by post. The matter therefore remained in abey- 

 ance until recently, when in correspondence with Mr. Jenkinson he wrote : " If 

 your Syntemna agrees with Winnertz's figure you may call it morosa, unless 

 you find some reason against, as there is no other species like it." Then in a 

 later letter he asks (referring to another species of his own) : " Can we record 

 them both in the February number of the Ent. Mo. Mag.?" As regards 

 venation of the wing, I consider my specimen does agree with Winnertz's 

 figure, and have therefore decided to send this note for what it is worth. — 

 Frbdk. C. Adams, 50, Ashley Gardens, S.W. : Jamiary Qth, 1912. 



A new British Flea. — The Eev. James Waterston recently sulimitted to me 

 three specimens of Palaeopsylla kohauti, Dampf, taken by a Mr. Mcintosh from 

 a mole on the 15th March, 1911, at Ballindalloch, a species not previously 

 recorded from Great Britain. This flea has so far been regarded as an eastern 

 insect, the most western point at which it had been previously secm-ed being 

 Wels in Lower Austria. — N. Charles Rothschild, Arundel House, London, W., 

 March, 1912. 



A note on Ceratophyllus vagabundus, Boheman. — Dr. Alfons Dampf* has 



recently given some extensive notes and illustrations of Ceratophyllus 



vagahundus, Boheman (= C. digitalis, Wfihlgren). There seems no doubt that 



the species we described as C. insularisf is really identical with C. vagahundus : 



and the name insularis must therefore be rejected.— N. Charles Rothschild, 



Arundel House, London, W. : March, 1912. 



* Avifauna Spitzbergensis, p. 276—279. 



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