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as they have been and in some cases corrected by his experienced eye. 

 It will be seen that Dr. Sharp and Mr. Lamb bave made notable con- 

 tributions. 



Additions to Mr. Verrall's List are marked with an asterisk. 

 The genera Epicypta, Brachypez<t, Parastemma, Megophthalmidia, 

 Qnoriste, Phthinia, Paratinia, Hertwigia, and Apoliphthisa appear 

 here as British for the first time, though three of them, Parastemma, 

 Megophthalmidia, and Apoliphthisa do not add new species to our 

 records. 



To save trouble, I may say that I follow Winnertz in my use of 

 the term " cross vein," which 1 apply to the vein joining the sub- 

 costal vein to the cubital (vein 3). Schiner, on the contrary, regards 

 the cubital as arising out of the subcostal (which he calls the 

 " Hauptast " of the first longitudinal vein) ; and what I call the 

 basal piece of the cubital he calls the cross vein, and vice versa. 



^Epicypta scatophora, Perris. — I have two specimens which agree 

 with the description of this species given by Winnertz. They were 

 taken at Crowborough on July 2Sth, 19l>5, and August 4th, 190tJ. 

 They are both females, and agree in the following points : — The fore- 

 legs have the tarsi about three times as long as the tibia?, and the 

 small postero-dorsal spines on the tibia? are two in number ; the 

 ventral spines on the middle tibia? are two, the upper being shorter 

 than the other. The second segment of the body has what seems to 

 me a very remarkable character, namely, two long hairs pointing 

 backwards, rising from the hind margin of the ventral surface. The 

 wings have vein 3 (the cubital) regularly arched, and the fork of 

 vein 5 decidedly nearer the base of the wing than the origin of 

 vein 4. The cross vein, A, (i. e., the vein joining the subcostal to the 

 cubital vein) is much shorter than the basal piece of vein 3, B, and 

 about as long as the " stalk " of 4, C ; i. c, A = C < B. 



A female taken at Cambridge on August 8th, 1905, has the two 

 long ventral hairs on the second segment, and the tiro postero-dorsal 

 spines on the front tibia? ; also the front tarsi are about three times 

 as long as the tibia?. But there is a third ventral spine on the middle 

 tarsi, above the others, and about as long as the upper one. And the 

 proportion of the three veins A, B, C, is B = C>A. The ventral 

 half of the body is brownish-yellow. In view of the variability attri- 

 buted to E. punctum, I regard this provisionally as a variety of 

 E. scatophora. 



Epicypta ? sp. — 1 must here mention a female (?) taken in my 

 garden at Cambridge on July 24th, 1904, which 1 cannot assign to 



