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Cleigastea nigeita, rin. 



This is a little shining black species, with black antennse and palpi. The legs 

 are also black, with yellow tibire, and piceous tarsi. Length, 3 — 4 mm. 



This fly was captured and sent to me by Miss Prescott-Decie ; the locality was 

 not noted. 



Cleigastea tibiella, Ztt. 



This species bears a considerable resemblance to C. nigrita, but is of a dull 

 brown-black colour, instead of being bright and shining ; the palpi also are yellow, 

 and not black ; the thorax, as well as the abdomen, is immaculate, the latter in the 

 male is very narrow ; the legs have the femora black, and the tibiae and tarsi testa- 

 ceous. I captured one male some years ago, I think in the Lake district. 



Htdeomtza feateena, Mgn. 



This has the frontal space yellow, with the lateral bristles prolonged to the base 

 of the antenna;, which are black, with a yellow mark across the middle on the base 

 of the third joint ; the arista is bare and thickened at tlie base ; the palpi are pale, 

 with dilated extremities ; the thorax and abdomen are yellow-grey, the former being 

 marked with two wide, rather faint, brown stripes ; the legs are yellow, witli some- 

 what grey femora. I found a single female at Windermere in 1884. 



SCATOPHAGA FONTANALIS, End. 



This little species may be distinguished by its having the palpi, as well as tlie 

 legs, black ; it is dark grey in colour, and the thorax has three rather indistinct 

 stripes. The antennse are black ; the arista is long and slightly pubescent ; the 

 frontal space red in front ; the epistome slightly projecting ; the wings clear and 

 slightly flavescent. I found a female (Rondani did not know the male) of this fly 

 at Windermere in 1892. 



SCATOPHAGA VILLIPES, Ztt. 



This is very similar to S. Utorea, Fin., but is rather larger, and much more 

 hairy ; the antennse also have the basal joints red ; the thorax is dark grey, and less 

 distinctly marked than in S. Jitorea, and the male has the anal joints of the 

 abdomen incurved and red. 



I found this fly at Silverdale (Lancashire) in April, 1875, and also received a 

 specimen from Mr. Beaumont, taken at Taynuilt (Argyllshire). 



ScATOPHAGA HETEEOMYZINA, Ztt. 



I captured this species at Windermere, in July, 1892. It has the antennse 

 with the basal joints yellow ; the arista bare ; the palpi yellow ; the proboscis 

 piceous ; the thorax dark grey, indistinctly striped ; the abdomen yellow, and 

 darkened towards the apex ; the wings clear ; the legs pale, with few bristles, and 

 the tarsi piceous. Length, 4 mm. 



FUCELLIA MUSCAEIA, Ztt. 



This has the thorax yellowish-grey, with indistinct stripes. The scutellum is 

 pale grey ; the abdomen is dull grey, narrow, or rather pale in the male ; oval and 

 darker in the female, and marked with transverse black marks ; the head has the 



