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return to London in September o£ that year, and the identification 

 confirmed by Mr. Austen at the British Museum. Some months 

 afterwards, viz., February, 1S99, the first record of the species as a 

 British insect was made by Dr. Meade (Ent. Mo. Mag., February, 

 1899, p. 31) from a specimen (without locality) given him by the late 

 Mr. Walker. 



CordyJura rufimana was a common insect at Aviemore in July of 

 the present year, and in company with it were considerable numbers 

 of an interesting variety, which I can only put down to be the Cordy- 

 Jura ruhrifronlata of Becker. These two forms differ in the presence 

 or absence of the black markings on the hind tibiae, and it was 

 interesting to find that the J $ were principally of the rufimana form, 

 while the ? ? were chiefly ruhrifrontata. 



The females of the rufimana form were very rare, and though I 

 t-aptured several males of the ruhrifronlata form, still they were far from 

 common. This species frequents wet marshy places at the edge of pine 

 woods (often even under the shade of the pines themselves), where 

 the vegetation is a compound of heath, bog myrtle, cotton grass, &c., 

 spots altogether unlike the ground frequented by most of the other 

 species of the genus. 



POGONOTA HIRCUS, Zett. 



Mr. Bradley was the first person to record this species as British, 

 having taken specimens in the neighbourhood of Birmingham on 

 July 3rd, 1895. 



It is strange that the species should have been so long overlooked, 

 as in July, 1S9S and 1899, I found it common on every moorland 

 pool at Kannoch, Kingussie, and Aviemore, while in August it was 

 more or less abundant at Forres (Loch of the Blairs), Thurso, and 

 Nethy Bridge. This species affects the true moorland pools where 

 carex, cotton grass, heather, sphagnum, &c.,are all mixed up together, 

 and in these spots a chance capture probably gives a clue to the 

 insect's presence, and then sweeping must do the rest. 



SpATHIOPHORA HrCROMTZINA, Fin. 



In August, 1899, this species was in great abundance in the 

 bed of the Thurso river near Thurso ; it seems to be widely distri- 

 buted, though as a rule (in England, at any rate) uncommon. The 

 following are some of the localities in which I have met with it : in 

 Scotland, Kingussie, Aviemore, Forres, and Thurso ; in England and 

 Wales, Gravesend, Wicken Fen, and Llangorse ; besides these locali- 

 ties there are in the collections of the British Museum, and in that 



