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genitalia of a British A. anglica and finds that they do not differ in 

 any way from those of A. cinnamomen. 



Fairmaire's types of A. lucens (^ and ? ) were from the Forest 

 of Bondy. Gancrlbauer states that it is found very rarely in France, 

 Holland, the Eastern Alps, Bohemia, and Hungary. 



Horsell, Woking : 



Auffmt I6th, 1905. 



NOTES ON TACEINID.E. No. 1. 

 BY COLBRAN J. WAINWEIGHT, F.E.S. 



TVotes made upon various Tachinidts from time to time having 

 accumulated T have thought it better to bring them together within 

 the compass of a single paper. The final determining factor was the 

 opportunity afforded me of clearing up an interesting problem con- 

 nected with the genus MicropaJpus by means of a collection of those 

 insects specially made for the purpose by Col. Terbury in Scotland 

 last year. The result of my examination of his captures was to 

 enable me to decide with certainty that the northern representative 

 of the southern black species pudiciis, Edi., was quite distinct from 

 that species. The result is not an actual addition to the British list, 

 as Mr. Verrall included it under the name pictus, Mg., in his last 

 list (1901) on account, 1 believe, of my expressed opinion that a few 

 odd specimens taken by Col. Yerbury at Aviemore in 1899 were that 

 species. The question, however, remained in doubt, as there were 

 not suflScient specimens taken then to make its distinction from 

 pudlcus a certainty, and Col. Terbury himself believed them to be 

 specifically identical, so that he made a point of collecting a long 

 series of them last summer, in order that a decision might be arrived at. 

 When Verrall published his 1888 list there were but two cer- 

 tainly known British species of the genus, vulpinus, 'Fin., ?ir\d comptus. 

 Fin. {=1 fulgens, Mg.). Meade, in 1891, in his Annotated List of 

 British TacUnidcB (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1891, pp. 90-91), added a third 

 name — h(emorrlioidalis. Fin. ; this, however, was on the strength of 

 one specimen only without locality, which was but doubtfully British, 

 so that whatever species Meade had before him the record must be 

 ignored. Since then pudicus, Rdi., has become well known as British, 

 and has been recorded by Mr. E. E. Austen in the Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxxiv, pp. 36^ — 8 ; so that the present addition gives us four 



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