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List of British Jjiptera, Edition II.— I expect the advertisement will appear 

 on the wrapper of the issue of this Second Edition, and consequently to anticipate 

 criticism let me admit that I had overlooked Meade's Descriptive List of the British 

 Anthomyida which was published by Gurney and Jackson in 1897. 



In this List the following species were included which are omitted by me : — 

 Hyetodesia vagans, Fin., Mydcea long it arsis, Meade, Phorbia humerella, Zett., P. 

 trapezoides, Zett., Pegomyia setaria, Wdm., P. tenera, Zett., Hydrophoria fusca, 

 Meade, while Pegonomyia alpicola, Meade, is renamed P. Meade i, Pokorny. 



I do not admit the validity of any of these species, as they are all unknown to 

 me, and may very probably be synonyms of species which are in my List, but I 

 ought to have noticed them. 



I may mention here that, although Meade sank his Hydrotcea parva as a sy- 

 nonym of E. glabricula, I have had numerous specimens of both (quite distinct) 

 species, which have been captured in 19U1. — G. H. Vebrall, Sussex Lodge, New- 

 market : December, 1901. 



The galls of Oligotrophus annul ipes. — These remarkable Cecidia have apparently 

 been more than usually common this year. Some magnificent specimens have been 

 sent to the Museum by Miss Jenkinson from Woodhay in Berkshire, and it has been 

 noticed by myself and others in the New Forest on the beech leaves. In the 

 Woodhay specimens there were as many as twenty galls on a leaf, and on some of 

 the twigs nearly every leaf bore one or more galls. The figures given by Kieft'er 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxix, pi. 42) agree with our British specimens. The Ceci- 

 domyiid that produces the gall stands in Mr. Verrall's list of British Diptera under 

 the name of Mormomyia piligera, Lw., but according to Kieffer it should be known 

 as Oligotrophus annulipes, Hart. Kieffer's memoir is a very valuable production, 

 but his instructions for mounting and for rearing Cecidomyiida do not appear to 

 me to be up to the mark, and are in fact very discouraging. — D. Shabp, Cambridge : 

 November 1st, 1901. 



T'he Castelnau Collection — Carabidw : a correction. — In my brief note on this 

 collection of Coleoptera (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1901, p. 144) there is an error that Dr. 

 Gestro has pointed out to me. I said that the Carabidce were purchased by the 

 late Edwin Brown. This is a mistake. The Carabidce were purchased by Marquis 

 Doria and presented to the Genoa Museum. It was the Cicindelidce, not the Cara- 

 bidce, that Mr. Brown acquired. — Id. 



Coleoptera at Briton Ferry, South Wales.— While at Cardiff about the middle 

 of July, on business, I managed to get two or three hours' collecting on the sandhills 

 and the sandy shore near Briton Ferry. On the shore itself I obtained Nebria 

 complanata, L., Cicindela maritime, Dej. (as the day was very windy these insects 

 proved very difficult to catch), and Dyschirius politus, Dej. On the sandhills the 

 following were obtained : — Nacerdes melanura, L., Cteniopus sulphureus, L., Serica 

 brunnea, L., and Anomala Frischi, F. ; all were crawling about on the bare sand, 

 except Cteniopus, which was found under a stone. — G. T. Hudson Beare, 2, Heriot 

 Eoad, Edinburgh ; October Zlst, 1901. 



