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species was taken by Col. Yerbviry at Mildenhall, in Suffolk, on 

 May 22nd, 1909. The peculiar patch of ^'olden scales on the anterior 

 surface of the middle femora is very characteristic. 



73. S. jmmila, Meig. This small species may be easily dis- 

 tinguished by the absence (or almost so) of the apical scutellar 

 bristles. It was not uncommon at Barton Mills, in Suffolk, on 

 May 19th, 1909, and three males occurred at Eynsham in Oxfordshire, 

 on July 2nd, 1910. 



73a. Pyrellia senea, Zett. The comparatively common species 

 which we have known as P. cadaverina is not that species, but 

 apparently is the one known on the continent as P. senea ; it is very 

 common in Wicken Fen. Probably some older name will be found for 

 it. I have never met with the true P. cadaverina, which is apparently 

 very common over nearly all Europe, but I possess an old specimen 

 from the late Mr. Dossitor's collection which is probably British. 

 P. cyanicolor is now considered a synonym of P. serena. 



7Sb. Spilocjaster platyptera, Zett. This uncommon species would 

 come among those placed by me under Mydina, and in Kertesz's 

 Katalog is given as a synonym of the doubtful Antlwmyia querceti, 

 Bouche. It was identified by Stein in my collection from males taken 

 at Lyndhurst on June 25th, 1872, Lee, on August 17th, 1875, and a 

 female at Penzance on June 7th, 1871. It has been recorded as 

 British by Mr. GTrimshaw in the " Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist." for 1909. 



74. SpUogaster halterata, Stein. A number of specimens of this 

 species in my collection were identified by Stein himself. Four males 

 occurred near Fridge in Kent in June, 1886, and one at Ormesby in 

 June, 1888, while I believe I took it at Lyndluu'st in June, 1876. 



75. Limnojiliora maritima, v. Rod. This species was described 

 in 1887 by v. Eoder from the East Frisian island of Norderney, 

 as a new Melanochelia. In 1902 Schnabl thought that he recognised 

 it from the same island and the neighbouring island of Borkum, 

 and founded upon it the possibly justifiable new genus Neolimno- 

 phora, but in the errata of the same volume he re-named his species 

 as N. sclinusei — a fact which seems to have been overlooked in all 

 catalogues. Next, in 1902 Villeneuve described from the North 

 French and Belgian coasts a Limnophora sestuum, which he said in 

 1906 should be ranged with L. maritima in Schnabl's sub-genus 

 Neoliinnopliora, but at the same time he described two more species, 

 L. candicans and L. virgo, from Montpellier on the French Mediter- 

 ranean. Stein in 1906 thought he knew L. vmritima from Borkum, 



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