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themi Wolff, on the sandhills at Silloth. Asciodema obsoletum D. and S., from 

 Orton ; Notonecta glauca L., was plentiful enough in Monkhill Lough, where 

 also occui'red Corixa fallenii Fieb., C. praeusta Fieb., and C. bonsdorffii Sahib. 

 In the po)ids at Cuinuieisdale I caught C. sahlbergi Fieb and C. fossarum 

 Leach. — Jas. Murray, 2, Balfovir Road, Carlisle : January 21st, 1915. 



Diptera in 1913-14. — The following captures seem to be worthy of I'ecord : 

 Chloropisca rufa Mcq., July 18th, 1913, High Lane, Cheshire ; Tipula margi- 

 nata Mg., August 25th, 1913, Meole Brace, Salop ; Hilara anglodanica Lund., 

 June 2nd, 1913, Amberley, Glos. ; Myiospila medHahunda F., May 24th, 1914, 

 High Lane, Cheshire (an unusvial variety, lacking the central thoracic stripe) ; 

 Sciara rufiventris Mcq., August 26th, 1913, Church Stretton, Salop. 



I am indebted to Mr. F. W. Edwards for kindly determining the above, 

 and with reference to the last-mentioned, he says : " This was first recorded as 

 British by Grimshaw in 1903, and has not been noted since." 



Siphona geniculata Deg., Aug. 2nd, 1914, Bomere, Salop ; Meigenia bisignata 

 Mg., June, 1914, Whitechurch, Dorset (a curious dark form) ; Lydella ferruginea 

 Mg., August 11th, 1914, Bomere, Salop. 



Mr. C. J. Wain Wright, who was kind enovigh to name these for me, says of 

 the latter that it is so far very little known, and that he has only seen one 

 specimen other than the exami^le in his collection, and both came from the 

 Western counties. 



RhypholopTius haemorrhoidalis Ztt., Sept. 6th, 1914, High Lane, Cheshire ; 

 Rhypholophus varhis Mg., Sept. 6th, 1914, High Lane, Cheshire ; Beris ge7ii- 

 culata Curt., August, 1913, Meole Brace, Salop ; Oxycera pulchella Mg., 

 August 20th, 1913, Meole Brace, Salop ; Ischyrosyrphus ylaucuis L., August 12th, 

 1914, Bomere, Salop ; Didea fasciata Mcq., June 4th, 1914, Whitechiu'ch, 

 Dorset ; Syrphus albostriatus Fin., June 14th, 1914, High Lane, Cheshire, 

 and August 14th, 1914, Meole Brace, Salop ; 8. cinchis Fin., September, 



1912, High Lane, Cheshire ; S. ximbellatarum F., August, 1914, Meole Brace, 

 Salop ; S. annulatus Ztt., August, 1913, Ollerton, Cheshire ; Brachyopa bi- 

 color Fin., June 3rd, 1914, Whitechurch, Dorset ; Eristalis sepulchralis L., 

 August 14th, 1914, Meole Brace, Salop ; Sericomyia borealis Fin., August 31st, 



1913, High Lane, Cheshire ; Hybos culiciformis F., August 10th, 1914, Atcham, 

 Salop, and August 19th, 1913, Craig Breidden, Montgom. ; Melanochila 

 riparia Fin., Aixgust 8th, 1913, Meole Brace, Salop ; Borborus nigrifemoratus 

 Mcq., March 24th, 1914, High Lane, Cheshire ; Sphaerocera subsultans F., 

 Jiine 4th, 1913, Manchester. 



These last, though not so interesting as the others, may be new for the 

 localities given. — Herbert Bury, Lomber Hay, High Lane, Cheshire : 

 February 18th, 1915, 



Stenophylax atpestris Kol., in Scotland. — Recently Mr. Bernard T. Harwood 

 sent me for determination a number of Trichoptera, and among them was a very 

 good specimen of Stenophylax alpestris Kol., taken by liis brother at Nethy 



