1914.] 17 



appendiculata, praediscoidali autem effusa . . . Genus Muiopseam. The wings 

 only of the insect were known, as drawn by Haliday, and copied by Van Vollen- 

 hoven. They differ widely from those of any other Braconid. " I have named the 

 species N. halidaii, and placed it provisionally as an aberrant form of the Areolarii 

 next after Orgilus, in Andre's species," says Marshall (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1897, p. 149). 

 I am not aware that the original drawing was published : Vollenhoven's is in 

 " Schetsen ten gebruike bij de studie der Hymenoptera," 1S68, pi. vi, though the 

 insect is certainly unknown outside England, except by my recent Luxemburg 

 record. Marshall, writing from Botusfleming in June, says : " I have been gratified 

 by the re-discovery here of Haliday's long lost genus Neoneurus. I have taken 

 both sexes by sweeping flowers in the fields " ; and " Cornouailles, capture deux 

 fois sur les ombelliferes " Hoc. cit.). It was not taken in time for insertion in 

 his Monograph of British Braconidos, and I there find no mention of the wing. — 

 Claude Morley, Monk Soham House, Suffolk : December Gth, 1913. 



Dolichopus caligatus, Wahlb., in Perthshire — I have a male of this fly taken 

 at Aberfoyle on August 21st, 1906. The species has not hitherto been recorded 

 from Britain, and Mr. Collin who has kindly examined my specimen, tells me 

 it is the first British example he has seen. D. caligatus comes near lineaticornis, 

 Zett., in our list, but is easily distinguished by its silvery-white epistoma. 

 There is a good (English) description of this apparently rare species in Lund- 

 beck's " Diptera Danica," Part V, 1912. -A. E. J. Carter, The Retreat, 

 Monifieth : November, 1913. 



Didea alneti, Fin., in Gloucestershire. — In view of the scarcity of this species, 

 it may be desirable to record that I was fortunate enough to meet with a 

 female specimen in a wood near Stroud on July 30th last. It was boxed on a 

 bramble flower, and when taken the abdomen had a semi-transparent greenish 

 metallic appearance, which afterwards (i.e., on the way back to the house at 

 which I was staying) resolved itself into the normal black with whitish bars. 

 Being quite a tyro in the matter of Diptera, to which I am just beginning to 

 pay some attention, I do not know whether it is customary for Syrphids to 

 alter in colouring after having been some time emerged from the puparium, 

 but certainly think this must have been so in the present case.— C. Nicholson, 

 35, The Avenue, Hale End, Chingford, Essex : December, 1913 



Societies. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting held at the 

 Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, on Monday, October 20</i, 1913. 

 — Mr. P. N. Pierce, P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Exhibitions were as follows :— Mr. W. Mansbridge brought along bred series 

 of Hadena glauca from Burnley, some of which showed a strong melanic 



