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the same way, and also by the formation of the palpi " (the fourth 

 joinl being narrow, sickle-shaped, twice as long as the third), "and by 

 the presence of spines on the middle and hind tibise." I ought to say 

 that in one of my specimens, as Mr. Verrall at once noticed, the me- 

 diastinal vein breaks off short and does not reach the subcostal vein. 

 I took a specimen at Reinacharn, near Dinnet, August 28th, 1900, 

 and two at Logie, August 24th and 25th, 1903. 



* Apoliphthisa subincana, Curt. — This barbarouf sgeneric name was 

 introduced by Grzegorzek in 18S5 (Berl. Eut. Zeit., xxix, 205) being 

 placed between Empalia and Tetragoneura. He says " Vena auxiliaris 

 ante medium cellulse cubitalis in costalem desinit absque vena trans- 

 versali superior*. Cellula cubitalis bis longior quam lata. Basis 

 fume posterioris ante basim anterioris." 



Curtis (Brit. Ent., 641) figures under the name of subincana a 

 Sciophilid fly without a costal cross vein. He describes it as " similar 

 to 8. (Lasiosoma) hirta ; black, sparingly clothed with hoary hairs, 

 legs yellowish-ochre, tips of trochanters and of hinder thighs blackish ; 

 tibiae fuscous, tarsi darker. If line long. Beginning of May, Coomb 

 Wood." This agrees well enough with specimens taken by Dr. Sharp 

 and myself at Brockenhurst early in July, 1904, by Dr. Sharp ibidem 

 in September, 1904, and by myself at Crowborough, April 21st, 1903 

 (one $), and August 8th and 13th, 1906. Sciophila fenestella, Curt. 

 (Walker, iii, 42) seems also to belong to this genus. 



*Empheria lineola, Meigen. — Miss M. A. Sharp took a specimen 

 of this handsome fly at Brockenhurst, May 29th, 1907. 



Empheria pietipennis, Hal. -This charming species occurs in the 

 New Forest, at Crowborough, and at Logie, not rarely. 



Asindulum ? sp. — l have not yet identified satisfactorily the dark 

 species of Asindulum which is as common us A.jiavum. 



*Diadocidia valida, Mik. — (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. VVien, xxiv, 329, 

 1 tab. vn [1874]). " Vein 1 ends far beyond fork of 5 ; third costal 

 section as long as fourth Tore tarsi simple." 



A single specimen at Logie, September 26th, 1904. 



Diadocidia fcrruqinea , Meig., seems to occur generally. 



Soutlimead, Chaucer Road, 

 Cambridge : 



February, 19oH. 



f Mr. Collin reminds me that Grzegorzek in fact writes Apolephthisa, and not Apoliphthisa. 

 But, as the Greek word lie presumably means to represent is not a7roA>jc/)0<Ft<ra but an-oAeic/^eto-a, 

 and as the confusion between et and ij is une of the commonest which editors of classical texts 

 have to correct, it seems to me only reasonable to spell the word correctly. Paratinia from 

 7rapaTti'i'io is, of course, also barbarous in a different way (= Trapa.Ta.TiKr)). 



