226 [March, 



(9) Syrphus cinctiis. — This species was not very uncommon, and is readily dis- 

 tinguished from the commoner 5'. cinctellus, Zett. 



(10) Trichoplitliicus. — Taking this genus in the sense adopted by Dr. Meade, 

 two species were common in Arran and I expect over most of Scothiud, as I caught 

 both at Rannoch and T. hirsutula at Braemar and also at Windermere. According 

 to Zetterstedt, their first describer, both are common in Scandinavia. The two 

 species are remarkably alike, and I failed to distinguish the females though specially 

 looking out, and Zetterstedt who took both species in cop., fared scarcely better. 

 The males of both are blackish, the abdomen (viewed from behind) being greyish 

 with a black dorsal line ; both have somewhat smoky wings and halteres, and both 

 have the hind tibiae clothed in front and beneath with longish erect hairs, but in T. 

 innocua the hind tibiae are nearly straight, and their apices with scarcely any noticea- 

 ble spur beneath, while in T. hirsutula the hind tibise are curved and have at their 

 apices behind a long conspicuous blunt spur. In T. hirsutula the abdomen is 

 lighter grey, and the incisures more darkened. 



(11) Scatophaga squalida, Mg. — This species was common on the extreme 

 summit of Goatfell (2866 ft.). 



The remarkable absences from this list ai-e the whole genus Clinocera which I 

 specially looked for, and above all Musca domestira which I could not find ; I have 

 no doubt it occurs later in the year, as when the house I am now living in was built 

 I could not find M. doniestica in it until August. 



Sussex Lodge, Newmarket : 



December, 1882. 



FURTHEE TROPICAL NOTES. 

 BY GEO. C. CHAMPION. 



Mr. W. D. Fryer's additional " Tropical Notes " (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xix, p. 59) have just reached me ; and, as they are written chiefly 

 in answer to my observations on the same subject (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xviii, p. 214), I will now supplement my previous notes with a few 

 more particulars of my own experiences in the New World. 



I think we are both equally agreed as to the exaggerated accounts 

 usually given by travellers of the fauna of the tropical forest (of 

 Central America I have read of enormous blue butterflies nine inches 

 in expanse ; the species that do occur become greatly magnified in 

 size), but in speaking of this part of the world, it is impossible to say 

 that hutterflies in particular are never found beneath the forest canopy 

 (the italics are mine), and it is to these accounts of Mr. Fryer's ex- 

 periences in Borneo I demurred, as not being applicable to Central 

 America. 



The primeval forests of Central America are comparatively open, 



