108 [ Ma y> 



Ik — The species of Orimarga winch occurs on the South Devon coast is not 

 virgo, Zett., but apparently juvenilis, Zett., but at present the question is not quite 

 cleared up. 



15. —Why is Xysta vana, Mg., Enfc. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxi, p. 212, omitted ? 



16. — Is not AnomcBa permundus, Harris, an older name for A. antica, W. ? 



17. — -The larvaa of Heteroneura albimana, Mg., live in rotten wood. I have 

 bred the species from little red pupae. 



18. — Why is Masicera virilis, Rnd., Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. v, n. s., p. 157, 

 omitted ? 



19. — Is not Pocota personatua, Harris, an older name for P. apiformis, Schrk.? 

 Moses Harris' work was published in 1786, and it is probable tbat many of his 

 names will have to be re-instated. 



20. — I think it is a pity (and, perhaps, all Dipterists will agree with me) that 

 Mr. Verrall did not adopt Baron Osten Sackcu's grouping of the families of the Nemo- 

 cera, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. ii, n. s., p. 39. The position of the Bibionidm and 

 Simulidee in his list appears to be most radically wrong. 



21. — Why is not Siphona placed near or next to Prosena, to which it appears 

 much allied ? I have a third species of it — -a tiny little fellow. 



Glanvillcs Wootton : 



February 25tk, 1902. 



REPLY TO MR. DALE'S QUERIES. 

 BY G. II. VERIiALL, F.KS. 



Through the courtesy of the Editors 1 am enabled to reply at 

 once to Mr. Dale's enquiries. 



I invite and desire criticisms of my " List of British " Diptera, 

 because such action must conduce to making any subsequent " List " 

 more correct. 



I will answer Mr. Dale's queries as shortly as possible, and take 

 them in the order he has numbered them. 



1. — Typhlopsylla assimilis, Tasch. According to Rothschild (Nov. Zool., 

 v, 539) this species was introduced by Saunders in mistake for 7 T . agyrtes, Heller 

 (misprinted in my List as T. agertes), and I have consequently relegated it to the 

 reputed List. 



2. — Nov. Zool., v and vii, and Ent. Record. 



3. — Pericoma punctum, Eaton. Where has it been described? I know nothing 

 of such a species. I can hardly imagine Eaton naming a species "punctum." 



4. — I do not profess to know M. lute.scens, Zett. ; I think I possess M. omata, 

 Steph., in numbers, but I am very uncertain about its nomenclature. As to 

 M. zonata, Steph., I do not know it, but if a synonym of Rhymosia fasciata, Meig., 

 Meigen's name has about twenty years priority. I have said in my preface that the 

 Mycetophilidce are still in a most unfinished condition. 



5. — I do not know. Theobald in his recent Monograph omits the species 

 entirely. I have a MS. note that it is a synonym of C. ornatus, Meig. 



