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NOTES OX SOME BRITISn DOLICIIOPODIDJE, WITH DESCRIl'TIONS 

 OF NEW SPECIES. . 



BY O. 11. VEER ALL. 



lu August, 1872, I published in tlic pages of tliis Magazine a list 

 o£ British DoliclwpocUdce. I now propose giving a few notes on some 

 of the rarer species included therein, especially when additions to our 

 Fauna, adding also a few species which 1 have noticed or determined 

 since. 



DoLicHOPUS PH^OPUs, Wlk. — I caught this rare species in some 

 numbers near Poole on July 19th, 1871. Walker's (or rather Hali- 

 day's) description calls the legs " piceous ; the fore pair lightei', with 

 " the tibia? rather pale." They are, however, usually much darker 

 than that ; but Loew was unfortunately ao much misled by the de- 

 scription, that he redescribed the species in 1871 from the Harz and 

 Sudetes mountains as D. montanns. He has since seen a pair of my 

 catching, which he at once identihed as his new species. 



D. piciPES, Mg. — According to Loew, Haliday himself declared his 

 D.fdsfiiosiis to be a synonym of Mcigen's D.jncijjes, after seeing types 

 of the latter at Paris. The specimen in Stephens' collection described 

 in the Insecta Britaunica na D. jnc/pcs is without douht B. I ej) id us, 

 Sta'g. 



D. LEPiDUs, Staeg. — Though the specimen just mentioned would 

 make this species British, it is surprising it has not been otlicrwise 

 noticed. I have captured it abundantly at Eannoch and Lyndhurst, 

 and have also taken it at Braemar and Wcybridge. 



I). MEL.vxoprs, INlg. — I caught two males of tliis in tlie New 

 Forest on June 2Gth, 1872. 



D. PLAXiTAUsrs, Fall. — Though AValker leaves outtiie (S) for this 

 species, the only specimen I have seen was caught near Aberdeen. 



D. LATiLiMBATUS, Mcq. — I captured several of this species on 

 August 20th, 1874, either near Three Bridges Station or about one of 

 the ponds in Tilgate Forest ; I also caught two females near Poole 

 three days afterwards, which J think are the same. The species is 

 allied to D. nuhiliis, Mg., but is easily distinguished by the black 

 fringed alula>, more broadly and conspicuously margined lamelUc of 

 the hypopygium, and lighter wings. The front tibite bear a long thin 

 bristle near the lij). ll is not uncommon on the coutincnt. 



