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This is the coninionest British species, and yet I thiuk it is uu- 

 describcd, unless it sliould prove to be the little known L.fulvonervosa 

 of Schummel, but that (according to Schiner, as I do not possess 

 Schummel's original description) has the femora in the female, which 



iwas the only sex he knew, not darkened at the tip ; besides I possess 

 a single poor specimen which I think distinct from L. lineolella, and 

 which may prove to be the true L.fulvonervosa. 



The described European ochreous Limnopkilce are (1) L. lineola, 

 Mg., Klass., i, 56 (1804), which I think is beyond doubt the largest 

 yellow-winged species which I recognise, and which was badly de- 

 scribed as L.ferruginea by Walker in I. B. D., iii, 286 : (2) L.Jlavescens, 

 Mg., Klass., i, 56 (1804) ; not the T. flavescens of earlier writers, but 

 the same as (3) L. ferruginea, Mg., Sys. Bes., i, 128 (1818) ; I have 



I no doubt this is my X./errwymea, because of the absence of any 



I central dark line on the thorax, though it is somewhat remarkable that 

 Meigen does not mention the dark fascia across the male abdomen 



I just before the genitalia ; Schiner, however, mentions this, thus 

 showing that he recognised the same species as I do : (4) L. geniculata, 

 Mg., Sys. Bes., i, 124 (1818), an unrecognised species communicated 

 to Meigen by Hoffmansegg, and possibly belonging here ; it is in- 

 suiEciently described, but can hardly be any of my new species, as it 

 has dark stripes on the thorax: (5) L. fulvescens, Mg., Sys. Bes., i, 



127 (1818), another unrecognised species from Hoffmansegg, with 

 apparently an unstriped thorax : (6) L. punctum, Mg., Sys. Bes., i, 



128 (1818), in all probability the species I recognise as British, of 

 which probably (7) L. glabricula, Mg., Sys. Bes., vi, 276 (1830), and 



j (8) L. longicornis, Schum., Beitr. Ent., i, 166 (1829), and certainly 

 (9) L. binotata, Zett., Ins. Lapp., 834 (1837), are synonyms: (10) L. 

 dispar, Mg., Sys. Bes., i, 129 (1818), undoubtedly the common species 

 I recognise, which is described twice over by Walker as L. dispar and 

 'punctum: (11) L. prceusta, Schum., Beitr. Ent., i, 169 (1829), an un- 

 doubted synonym of L. ferruginea.^ Mg. : (12) L.fulvonervosa, Schum., 



; Beitr. Ent., i, 164 (1829), which I have mentioned above : and lastly 

 (13) L. unicolor, Wlk., I. B. D., iii, 289 (1856), which was described 

 from a specimen of L. ferruginea which I have seen, but the figure on 

 plate 27, fig. 2e, is from an Amalopis, probably A. unicolor of Schum- 

 mel. There are, therefore, four well known and three doubtful species 

 in Europe ; the four well known species and two or three others occur 

 in Britain, the above described L. lineolella being very common ; it is 

 described by Walker as L. lineola. I have met with it abundantly 

 from the Channel to the North Sea (Lymington to Tongue). 



{To he coidinued.) 



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