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The male I have not yet come across, but I have before me 

 3 females, all taken in Stoke Wood, the dates being 12/7/07, 15/5/12, 

 and 19/6/12. The only one of our British species for which it could 

 be mistaken would be campestris, but besides many small differences, 

 the elongated ovipositor-like 6th segment would be amply sufficient to 

 distinguish it. 



Aphiochseta vestita, sp. n. A deep black insect with palish wings, 

 belonging to Section D, and according to the table falling into the 

 neighbourhood of pectoralis and clavipes, but considerably larger than 

 either and with little general resemblance to them. 



$ . Thorax and abdomen black ; the former scarcely shining, the 

 pubescence on the hinder part between the doiso-centrals strongly developed, 

 the individual hairs projecting well beyond the margin, meso-pleurae strongly 

 bristled but without one specially large. Frons slightly shining, about ^ broader 

 than long ; 4 nearly equal supra-antennal bristles, the upper pair just within 

 an alignment with the inner bristles of the middle frontals, the under pair 

 closely approximate ; antennae and aristae normal ; palpi black and well bristled. 

 Wings pale yellowish-brown, fringe long, costa leather more than f wing length, 

 1 more than half as long again as 2 + 3, angle at fork small, thin vein 1 leaves 

 almost without a curve. All the legs, even the fore ones, black ; hind femora 

 and tibial stout, the bristles on the latter small and delicate. Halteres deep 

 black. 1£ mm. 



One female taken in Stoke Wood a year or two ago on the last 

 day of April. Although but a single specimen, there can be no doubt 

 of its being a good species. The hairiness of the thorax behind is a 

 most unusual feature, and other important characters serve at once to 

 distinguish it from any of the forms with which either of the two Tables 

 bring it into connection. 



Hypocera irregularis. Not one of my captures last autumn grati- 

 fied me more than the sweeping up from under spruces in Stoke Wood 

 of a 2nd male of this interesting insect, confirming as it does the 

 original description in every detail, down to the hair-like inner branch 

 of the 2nd thick vein, which must therefore be considered a normal 

 character and not, as was thought it might be, an accidental one. 



Aphiochseta derasa. Mr. Brues of the Bussey Institution writes 



me that a prior name for this is albidohaUeris, Felt. The author 



described it from American specimens, so that it must be an insect of 



very wide distribution. I learn from Mr. F. W. Edwards of the 



British Museum that he has bred it from mushrooms, bought in 



the market. 



Tarrington, Hereford: 



March 11th, 1914. 



