1875.1 190 



In the Eut. Mo. Mag., 1HG7, Marshall described all the then 

 known British species under the name Eiqiteryx, Curtis, but gave 

 sectional characters. 



In his " Cicadinen," 1868, Kirschbaum puts all the species he 

 describes into three sections of Typhi ocyha. Germ. 



In his " Cicadaria," 1871, T)i\ J. Sahlberghas, in the main, adopted 

 Fieber's scheme of genera, modifying it, however, by uniting A?ioniia, 

 Zygina, Idia, and Tijphlocyha, under the name of Typhlocyha, and 

 Cltloria and Kyhos under the name of Gicadula, Zett. The former set 

 of these modifications, founded upon consideration of the small amount 

 of difference in the neuration of the wings, as shown by Fieber 

 himself (and in some cases admitted by him subsequently), is, I think, 

 justifiable ; but the adoption of the name Cicadula for part of Zetter- 

 stedt's section " b " cannot be maintained, for the reasons stated above, 

 and on account also of the generic discordance among the species cited. 

 The figures of the neuration of the wings, on which the genera are 

 chiefly founded, are excellent. 



In 1872, Fieber published his " Katalog der europiiischen Cica- 

 dinen," in which, on the ground of prior use, he alters Compsus to 

 Alebrcr, and Chloria to Chlorita ; and he unites 'ErytJiria with Notus, 

 and Idia with Zyyina. But he relinquishes his former correct idea of 

 Eiqjteryx, Curt., which he calls TyphJocyha, Germ., refers the species 

 previously associated under the latter name to Anomia and Zygina, 

 and drops Euptcryx, Curt., altogether ; fortunately, these latter 

 arbitrary propositions appear only in a Catalogue, and without show 

 of justification, but it is necessary to notice them to prevent mis- 

 conception by those who follow. 



{To he continuedj. 



OX THE AERAXOEMENT OF THE BRITISH ANTIIOMYITDJS. 

 BY R. ir. MEADE. 



The small and sombre flics comprised in the Dipterous family 

 Anthomyiidai are very little known to British entomologists ; but their 

 numbers, both in species and individuals, arc so great in this and other 

 cold and temperate climates, that they deserve more attention than 

 they have received. They are confessedly difficult to determine; but 

 this very difficulty adds fo the inferosl which they should excite, and 



