2] 8 [September, 



the New Forest, and I found several more specimens among some Dipfera collected 

 by Mr. Beaumont at Oxshott in Surrey. There is no doubt that this species is 

 identical with the Cordylura brevipennis of Curtis, which he captured in the Isle of 

 Wight, therefore it cannot be called an unrecorded British one. 



Sp. 2. — A. TIBIELLA, Ztt. 

 This little fly is of a dark grey colour, with few hairs or bristles ; it possesses 

 many of tlie characters of the former species, but wants the thickly tufted spines 

 under the fore femora. The eyes are large ; frontalia grey, with glistening white 

 margins, dark vertex, and oval yellow spot in front ; antennsB black, reaching the 

 epistome, having third joint with upper angle acute ; arista short, much thickened 

 for half its length ; palpi pale, with ends a little dilated ; proboscis black ; thorax 

 and abdomen dull dark grey, and immaculate ; wings brownish ; legs with femora 

 black, tibise bright yellow and tarsi rufous ; fore femora with four or five short 

 spines on the under-side. Length, 3 mm. Rare. 



Gen. X.— CERATINOSTOMA, Meade. 

 Scatophaga, Hal., Mcq. 



Oen. ch. — Head sub-globose ; eyes small and oval ; cheeks and 

 chin large ; oral setae numerous ; antennae short, with plumose arista ; 

 palpi filiform ; proboscis long, horny and pointed, with small lobes ; 

 abdomen long, sub-cylindrical, and clubbed at the apex in the male, 

 ovato-lanceolate and pointed in the female ; legs strong and spinose; 

 body generally smooth, having few hairs or bristles. 



This genus is rather anomalous, occupying a position between the 

 Cordylurince and Scatophagincs. 



Sp. I.— C. osTiORUM, Hal. (1832). 



oceana, Mcq. (1838). 



mao'itimum, Meade. 

 This maritime fly, living among seaweed and shingle, is of a blue-black colour, 

 and very similar in shape to a Cordylura. It has the frontalia black ; face silvery 

 white ; antennae black, with arista plumose, the hairs being confined to the basal 

 half as in Scatophaga stercoraria ; palpi pale and sub-clavate ; proboscis black ; 

 oral setae several in number, but not long ; thorax schistaceous, partly covered with 

 grey tomentura, and sub-striated ; scutellum black, with four long setre ; abdomen 

 thick, sub-cylindrical, smooth, with large incurved apex in the male, ovo-lanceolate 

 in the female ; wings long, flavescent, with dark veins ; legs black and spinose ; tarsi 

 ciliated beneath with soft yellow hairs. Length, 8 mm. Not common. 



Sub-Fam. SCA top ha GIN^. 



Gen. XI.— FUCELLIA, Dsv. 

 Halithea, Hal. 



Gen. ch. — Dark grey species, with head sub-globose ; eyes round ; 



