152 CJuly, 



Zeit., xxix, 199 [1SS5]). "Vena costali transcendente cacumen 

 venae cubitalis, vena auxiliari brevissima in subcostalem desinente. 

 Ocelli in fronte borizontaliter siti." 



*Acncmia longipes, Winn. —One at Crowborougb, October 3rd, 

 1903. 



Allocotocera -pulchella, Curt. — Several at Crowborougb, July 19th 

 and 20th, 1905, and again August 4th and 9th, 1906. One near 

 Inverness, July 25th, 1902. Also taken by Dr. Sharp and myself 

 in the New Forest, July 7th, 1901. One female at Cambridge, 

 July 27th, 1907. 



Leia elegans, Winn. — One at Crowborougb, August 27th, 1907. 

 Dr. Sharp took one in the New Forest in September, 1904. 



*Leia variegata, Winn. — Crowborougb, October 4th, 1903 (three 

 specimens), July 19th, 1905 (one), August 13th, 1906 (one), October 

 6th, 1906 (one, immature), August 26th and 28th, 1907. 



Megophthalmidia crassicornis, Curt., B. E., xiv, 645. — Curtis puts 

 this in the second division of the genus Leia, distinguished by the 

 ocelli forming an arch (instead of a triangle) on the crown of the 

 head. Mr. Verrall omits it in his 1888 list. In the second edition 

 (1901) it appears in such a way as to suggest that it should have 

 a genus to itself ; but no generic name is given. Meanwhile, in 1S89, 

 Dziedzicki had redescribed it (Horae Soc. Ent. liossicas, xxiii, 525, and 

 plate xxi) as Megophthalmidia zuqmayerice, from two specimens, a male 

 taken in summer in Austrian Silesia, and a female taken August 13th, 

 1888, at Grafenberg.* 



Mr. C. Gr. Lamb took a male at Wells, Somersetshire, in July, 



1902, and I have taken two males, at Crowborough, October 1st, 



1903, and in the New Forest on July 10th, 1904. It is a very 

 remarkable insect, with its thick orange antennae, cylindrical body, 

 and large descending hypopygium. 



* Phthinia Jiv/milis, Winn. — Mr. Verrall assigns to this species two 

 flies which I took at Crowborough on July 20th and 26th, 1905. 

 (Another on August 14th, 1906). 



A specimen from the banks of the Divie, near Dunphail, July 5th, 

 1902, which I had previously been inclined to call P. humilis, is, as 

 Mr. Verrall points out, a much browner insect, and presumably repre- 

 sents another species. More specimens are wanted. These insects, 

 with their long legs, are extraordinarily fragile, and require careful 

 handling. 



* It is just possible that M. zugmayerioe is not identical with 71/. crassicornis, if Dziedzicki 

 has drawn the " margo posterior lamina; basalis " exactly. 



