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Azelia Macquarti 

 Zetterstedti 

 cilipes 

 gibbera 

 Hyleinyia variata 

 strigosa 

 nigrimana 

 Lasiops Roederi 



ctenocnema 



Anthomyia pluvialis 



radicura 



[March, 



Chortophila floccosa, Rond. 

 villipes, Zett. 

 tricbodactyla 

 Scatophaga inquinata 



squalida (11) 

 litorea 

 Coelopa sp. 

 Psila fimetaria 



nigra 

 Pallopteia umbellatarum 

 Mycetopbila bimaculata 

 Macrocera lutea 



Bibio lacteipennis 

 Dilophus yulgaris 

 Scatopse iuermis 



notata 

 Rhyplius fenestralis 



punctatus 

 Ptychoptera lacustria 

 Limnobia nubeculosa 

 Rhypbolophus sp. 

 Tipula sinuata, F. 



gigantea, Schrk. 

 rufina 



NOTES. 



(1) Hcematopota crassicornis^ahXh. — I have no doubt we have two common and 

 widely diffused species of Mamatopota in Britain. The distinction is much easier 

 to the eye than to the pen, as the readiest character is the tint of the wing which 

 is marbled-grey in H. crassicornis and muddy-yellowish in S. pilwvialis. Very 

 little can be added to Wahlberg's original distinctions, in which he says, " Differt 

 statura breviori, colore intensius nigricanto, nee subfusco, pictura thoracis, abdomi- 

 nisque albida, nee cinerea, maculis alarum albis in lineas subcirculares magis conflu- ' 

 entibuB— Lineffi thoracis laterales abbreviatae et interruptse, sat distinctse, nee sub- 

 continuse, obsoletiores. Maculae abdominis parvse, rotundse, distinctse, nee majores, 

 obsoletse." I have seen S. pluvialis from Lewes and Lyndhurst to Arran, and H. 

 crassicornis from Sussex to Sutherland. In Curtis's British Entomology, 525, is 

 figured H. italica, from Mersey Isle, Essex, which seems distinct from the other two 

 by its larger size and oehreous femora ; Mr. H. Vaughan gave me just such a speci- 

 men from near Southend ; what species it really represents I caimot say at present. 



(2) Rhamphomyia. — The whole genus HhampJiomyia remains in a most un- 

 satisfactory state, very few species being as yet well identified or described. Of those 

 I record, i2. nigripes is common and well known ; R. flava, Fin., is equally well 

 known though less common, the males were hovering about six feet from the ground 

 in considerable numbers in a path through the plantations near Brodick Castle ; the 

 other four species are not in our most recent British lists, though R. umhripennis 

 was enumerated in Stephens' Catalogue. The species I have called R. albosegmeniata, 

 Zett., comes very near R. nigripes, F., but has the discal cell alike ii\ both sexes, it 

 seems very common in Scotland, and I have taken it at Lyndhurst, and at Abbott's 

 Wood in Sussex ; R. genicnlata, Mg., is a greyish species, with black legs and pale 

 knees, the female having the legs partly feathered, I feel no doubt it is the R. geni- 

 cnlata of Meigen and Zetterstedt ; R. tarsata, Mg., is a shining black species, with 

 blackish legs, the male having hyaline wings with a conspicuous black stigma, in- 

 crassated basal joint of hind tarsi, and large very conspicuous genitalia : the female 

 has the posterior femora and all the tibise somewhat feathered ; I have taken it 

 at Leigh and at Worcester ; I have no doubt it is Zetterstedt's R. tarsata, and 

 probably Walkei-'s R. longipes, as it seems to agree with a bad specimen so named 

 in the late Mr. W. W. Saunders' collection ; Walker says " no stigma," but I 

 expect ho named Mr. Saunders' specimen, and I certainly cannot put much value 



