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TipulidcB were well represented : Tipula gigantea, hcnafa, vari- 

 pennis, Dolichopeza sylvicola, Limnophila ferruginea, Cylindrofoma 

 distinctissima, Ephelia marmorata and suhmarmorafa, PacJiyrrTiina 

 crocata, maculosa, and amiuUcornis, Lipsothrix errans, all met with in 

 a two days' visit to Cannock Chase. 



Dicranomyia sericata and nigropunctata from Trench Woods. 



Tipula vittata (common), scurra, plumhea, PacJiyrrhina imperialis, 

 and many others from Sutton Park. 



These rough notes, although not including half the species that 

 were captured, prove, I think, that 1895 was a good season iov Diptera. 



Holly Bank, Sutton Coldfield : 

 February, 1896. 



NOTES ON EREBIA GLACIALIS, Esp. {ALECTO, Hb.), AND E. 



ME LAS, Herbst. 



BY DR. O. STAUDINGER. 



In the January number of this Magazine Mons. C. Oberthiir 

 published some notes on Erehia melas. Monsieur Oberthiir expresses 

 the opinion that the Erebia found during the last few years near 

 Campiglio, in the Southern Tyrol, is a local form of E. melas, which 

 he names var. NiclioUi, and says, " Dr. Staudinger insists on looking 

 upon it as glacialis, Esp. I will not dwell upon the astonish- 

 ment which an opinion so manifestly erroneous on the part of 

 an entomologist of great experience has caused me. It is true that 

 Dr. Staudinger only knows the male and not the female, but even 

 without knowing the female the matter does not seem to me disputa- 

 ble." I feel obliged to rectify the assertions of my entomological 

 friend Ch. Oberthiir, I never looked upon this Erehia A9, glacialis, £sp., 

 but I take it for a striking local form of that species. It is not 

 correct that 1 only knew the males when I wrote my opinion of this 

 Erehia to M. Oberthiir ; I did not possess the female, but I had the 

 opportunity of comparing 22 males and 7 females, w^hile M. Oberthiir 

 had only 2 males and I female befoi-e him. The first male I received 

 some years ago, through the kindness of Mr. H. J. Elwes, as E. melas ; 

 without examining it very closely I put it into my collection as E. 

 melas, but when I saw the first female I was convinced that it could only 

 be a local form of E. glacialis. As I have seen at least 1000 

 i' specimens of this species from the European Central Alps and more 

 than two hundred of E. melas from Banat and Greece, I believe that 



