1897.] 125 



to the clothing of the anal and axillar nervure^t, and P. auriculata ,^ 

 is the one in which this is most noticeable in comparison with that of 

 the other nervures. He uses, it is true, the terms "deep black 

 hairs ; " but the scales might readily enough be designated hairs by 

 any one using a weak lense. A "hoary" gloss is apt to appear on 

 the humeral tuft when the specimen is shifted about. The specimens 

 that were formerly distributed under the synonym % fii'^f^'^^ can be 

 readily identified by the localities Exwick or Stoney Stoke inscribed on 

 the circular pin-labels in the donor's handwriting. 



Walker in his Noies on the. Wing-hones of the Two-tvinged Flies, 

 " The Entomologist," vii, 127, fig. 22 {Psychoda '^Pericoma]), published 

 in 1874, gives a kind of synthetical-type figure of a wing. Taking 

 for its outline the wing of possibly Ps. phalcenoides, L., he seems to 

 have devised a parody on the neuration of P. ocellaris, Lat., for the 

 interior details. The anal nervure is a secondary vein, connected at its 

 inner extremity with the axillar and linked to the postical nervure 

 some distance out ; while this last in its turn is linked at its inner end 

 to the pobrachial nervure alone. Hence the posterior basal cell has 

 a wide, oblong, truncate cusp. At the inner end of the prsebrachial 

 nervure, the cross veinlets diverge from each other at an acute V-like 

 angle. The mediastinal vein is produced beyond the cross veinlet, 

 almost to the costa, and the part beyond the veinlet is at least twice, 

 if not more than twice, the length of the nearer portion. 



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i^^i 



FUETHER NOTES ON THE BEITISH SPECIES OF THE GENUS 



SOLENOBIA. 



BY C. G. BARRETT, F.E.S. 



My remarks upon species of this genus, as represented in these islands, in 1895 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxi, p. 163), procured me valuable help from several friends, 

 for which I am very grateful. 



Mr. J. W. Sidebotham, M.P., brought, in the first place, the specimens which, 

 in his late father's collection, represent the species known here as S. triquetrella. 

 These (also referred to by Dr. Chapman, aw^e, p. 79) are, unfortunately, only females, 

 but with them are the cases in which they had lived, with the pupa skins still pro- 

 truding from them, as is the curious habit of the Jemales in certain species of the 

 present genus. In the absence of any male specimens, it is difficult to determine 

 their species. 



Afterwards, Mr. Sidebotham most kindly brought the long series from his 

 father's collection which represent <S. inconspicuella, and that representing a possibly 



