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Mycotliera semifusca, Meig.- — I took this at Logic, on the Find- 

 horn, September 14th and loth, 1905, and at Crowborough on 

 August 27th, 1907. The species is in italics in Mr. Verrall's List. 



*Brachypeza bisignata, Winn. — Dr. Sharp took ;i specimen in 

 the New Forest, in September, 1901. 



*Brachypeza radiata, n. sp. — Eight specimens occurred in my 

 garden at Cambridge on the following dates :- August 2nd, 1901, 

 July 5th (two $ ) and September 2nd, 1905, August 20th, 21st (two), 

 and 22nd, 1900. Most of them occurred in the greenhouse ; and 

 several of them appeared just as it began to be too dark to see them 

 and box them on the glass overhead. A specimen has since occurred, 

 July 27th, 1907, on the ball window of the house, just outside Cam- 

 bridge, to which I moved in 190G. Two days later my gardener, 

 F. W. Lander, to whom I had shown this specimen, took oue on 

 a window of his house at Trumpington. about a mile away. 



The species seems to be quite unlike anything hitherto described. 

 The second joint of the front tarsi in the male has bristles below like 

 B. armata, but the spotted wings distinguish it at o:x e from that 

 species. The shade across the wing before the tip darkens the veins 

 and gives a rayed appearance, which suggested the specific n me. 



Bkachypeza radiata, n. sp. 



Griseo-lutea ; vertice, thoracis 3 vittis, scutelli medio, abdominis dorso, 

 lateribus, ventre aliquantum infuscatis ; antennarum articuli-s 2 primis 

 luteis, reliquis fuscioribus. Tibiarum anticarum calctre metatarso aliquanto 

 longiore ; tarsorum anticorum secundo articulo femina> simp) ice, maris infra 

 setis armato. Alls grisescentibus, macula media umbraque subapirali fuscis, 

 venis radiorum in modum brunneis. Long. 5 — 6 mm. Al. ejep. 11 mm. 

 Bab. Anglia. 



$ . Dull greyish-yellow with black bristles. Antennae brownish, first two 

 joints and base of third pale. Face and palpi ochreous ; top of head ochreous 

 between the eyes, dark behind, all covered with appressed ochreous hairs; along 

 the back of the eyes a few black bristles. Thorax with three dark lines ; marginal 

 bristles in front, behind, and along sides black; scutellum ochreous with a dark 

 central mark expanded at base and toward tip ; hairs ochreous, but a few discal 

 black bristles ; six long black marginal bristles. Abdomen with fine ochreous and 

 coarser black hairs ; first segment considerably darkened, second to fifth dark along 

 back, fourth to sixth with a dark shadow on sides ; front of each segment darkened 

 below. Uypopygium not clearly visible, but with two small orange elub-like pro- 

 cesses above, and two larger elongated flaps below. Legs pale, bristles black ; spurs 

 brownish-yellow ; front tibiae with the long spur fully as long as the metatarsus, and 

 with about seven posteral bristles towards the tip, second joint of front tarsi bristly 

 below ; middle tibiae with about six antcro-dorsal bristles, about five (weaker) 



