Q [January, 



shown by a brown spot or two on the basal band. The halteres are 

 orange, with a dusky tinge at the upper corner. The striated thorax 

 (not noticed apparently by any author) is a most unusual feature 

 either for a OnUi7ni/in or an Affnthomt/ia, though it is common enough 

 among the females of Plntypeza. The presence of distinct spines on 

 the subcostal vein and the character of the abdominal markings leave 

 little doubt, in spite of the somewhat elongated antennae, and even in 

 the absence of the male, that it is a true Gallimyia. 



Mr. Verrall observes : " Nobody seems to have taken it except 

 Fallen, Zetterstedt, and his correspondents Holmgrem, Dahlbom, and 

 Wahlberg, and perhaps Bonsdorff and his Finnish correspondents." 



Agathomyia horeeUa, Ztt. — Here Mr. Verrall had no hesitation 

 over the name. I was able to submit for his inspection nearly a 

 dozen examples, consisting of both sexes in about equal numbers, and 

 all taken this year in a boggy wood on Shobdon Marsh, between the 

 dates July 9th and August 18th. It is a small species, the size of 

 A. antenna fa, and of the usual velvety -black colour on the thorax and 

 abdomen ; the female, apart from the characters associated with sex, 

 only differing from the male in having the legs not so dark, and the 

 two first segments of the abdomen a dark orange. No spines are 

 present on the subcostal vein, but the 3rd joint of the antennas is not 

 elongated, being to my eye as short as in C. amcena or C. speciosa, and 

 therefore much shorter than in C. elegnntula. The halteres are black, 

 with their stalks somewhat pale in the female, and the legs blackish. 

 The male is further characterized by the usual bristle on the middle 

 tibia) being weak, by the presence of three bristles underneath the 

 corresponding metatarsi, extending in a line from the base to about 

 the middle, and by the marked enlargement of the hind legs which 

 are as dilated as in Callimyia. Any one meeting with the insect 

 should have no diflBculty in recognising it — the male, by the associa- 

 tion of the Callimyia-\\ke antennae with a spineless subcostal vein, by 

 the clumpy hind legs and the bristles underneath the middle meta- 

 tarsi ; and the female by the same association of antennae and vein, 

 and by the orange base of the abdomen. This orange portion varies 

 somewhat in extent. There is always present a narrow black line 

 between it and the thorax, which looks to me like a short and 

 unrecognised segment, and this black line occasionally sends a broad 

 prolongation on to the back of what is called the 1st segment. 



The short antennae, and strongly dilated hind legs in the male, 

 might suggest that the insect should be referred to Gallimyia, but the 



