1920. J 



2-19 



Hah. W. Almora niul IJanikhet (//. G. C). 



Four males and live females, one of the latter captured as recently 

 as June last. Eeadily separable from I. Jitmalaiciis by the darker 

 coloration, the legs being constantly infuscate, and the very short, 

 obliquely truncated, forcipiform appendages of the terminal ventral 

 segment in cS . The dark form is taken as the type ; the variet}^ 

 is represented b}- a single $ example. There is an allied unnamed 

 in.sect from Mani])ur in the British Museum. 



Figs. 1, 2. — Ichthijii.rus himalaicn.s, n. sp., (J', terminal abdominal segments, from 



beneath and in profile. 

 Figs. 3, 4.^7. macrdifrons, n. sp , (^ , ditto, ditto. 



Ilorsell, Wokins- : 



October, 1920. 



DIPTERA IN SOUTH SHROPSHIRE, 1913-1920. 

 BY HERBERT BURT, B.A. 



The insects enumerated below are from three localities only, viz. 

 Meole Brace (2 miles from Shrewsbury), Longner Hall, and Bomere 

 Woods, and were collected by Messrs. James Cosmo Melvill, D.Sc, 

 of Meole Brace Hall, R. F. L. Burton of Longner Hall, and the writer. 

 They serve to show that, if properly worked for Diptera, Shropshire 

 would prove one of the most prolific of the English counties, being 

 comparatively unspoilt by manufacturing towns. The most Interesting 

 recoi'ds are Tijnda diana Mg., Pocofa aj^ij'orm/n Schrk., Sciara riij!- 

 ventris Mcq., and Lydclla nigripes Mg. 



The two instances of the Chelifer, Chenies godfreyi, bcnng found 

 clinging to the legs of flies is worthy of remark. It does not seem to 

 be known with what object the Chelifer so attaches itself, but it is 

 pri)bably for purposes of transport. 



