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was first recorded as British by Mr. F. C. Adams in this Magazine for 

 1901, p. 212, from three specimens taken at Lyndhurst (Hants) on 

 July 22ud — 24th, and August 1st, 1901 ; while curiously enough on 

 July 24th of the same year Col. Yerbury caught an example at 

 Parlcnasilla (Ireland). Since then the species has been taken by the 

 late Mr. Verrall and myself at Wormsley Park (Oxon) in August, 

 1907 ; another specimen being found at the same locality by Mr. C. J. 

 Wainwright in August, 1912. It is distinctly rare even on the 

 Continent.— J. E. C. 



Fig. 2. — Chironomus fascipennis, Zetterstedt. This very little 

 known and pretty species is an addition to the British List, aiid was 

 found flying over a small piece of ornamental water in the late 

 Mr. Verrall's garden at Newmarket, on August 31st, 1910, and again 

 on August 28th, 1912. It is allied to C. flexUis, Wlk., but easily 

 distinguished by the extensively clouded tip of the wing, the sharply 

 defined blackened base of the anterior tibiae, and the pale middle part 

 of the hind tibiae. — J. E. C. 



Fig. 3. — Platyphora luhhorhi, Verrall. This species was originally 

 described in 1877 from a specimen bred by Lord Avebury (Sir John 

 Lubbock) from an ant's nest. Since then I believe Mr. J. J. F. X. 

 King has taken it in the New Forest, while the present figure was 

 made from an example found by Dr. J. H. Wood in Herefordshire. 

 A second species, P. jyyrenaica, Becker, was quite recently (Wien. 

 Ent. Zeit., 1912, p. 330) described from the Pyrenees imder the 

 generic name Psalidesma. It should be noted that in the figure the 

 minute bristles on the second thick vein are made very much too 

 conspicuous. — J. E. C. 



Fig. 4. — Antliomyza bifasciata. Wood. This insect was described 

 in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for February, 1911, p. 40, and this is the only 

 record of its occurrence. — J. E. C. 



Fig. 5. — Gonops (Brachyglossiim) signata, Wiedemann. The first 

 and only record of this species as British is that of Mr. J. Collins, who 

 found a pair on September llth, 1910, in Tubney Wood, near Oxford, 

 as recorded on p. 273 of this Magazine for that year. According to 

 Kondani it is to be found near the nests of Vespa vidgaris. — J. E. C. 



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