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Microprosopa heteromyzina, Zett., recorded as British by the late Dr. Meade 

 in this Mag-azine for 1899, page 32, under the genns Scatopliaga, has not been 

 found since, and it is doubtful if he correctly recognised it. 



Scatophaga analis, Mg., and villipes, Zett., have been confirmed as British, 

 the former by Col. Yerbuiy (Irish Naturalist, xi, 88, 1902), the latter by 

 Mr. Urimshaw (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1904, 202). 



Scatophaga fontanalis, Eond. — Tlio remarks made under Microprosopa 

 heteromyzina also apply to this species. 



Scatophaga rudis, exiviia, calida, and arrogans of Haliday are mere names 

 to me, the first two have never been recognised since they were described, and 

 the last two have been recognised by Dr. Meade only. Up to the pi-esent 

 I have had no opportunity of examining the type specimens, if such exist tliey 

 are probably in Cui-tis' Collection in Australia. 



Gymnomera dorsata, Zett. — The only record of this species as British is 

 that of Dr. Meade in this Magazine for 1899 ; he introduced it on the strength 

 of one male taken by Mr. Dale at Glanvilles Wootton, the specimens under this 

 name in Dale's Collection seen by me were all Leptopa filiformis, a species not 

 possessed by Meade, it is therefore quite possible that G. dorsata has been 

 introduced in error for L. filiformis. 



THYREOPHOEID^. 



A new genus Centrophlehomyia has been founded for Thyreophora furcata, 

 F., by Hendel (Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt., 1903, 216). 



CCELOPID^ (Phtcodromid^). 



Malacomyza, Haliday Ciirtis' Giiide, 2nd ed., 1837, p. 280, and Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., II, 186 (1838), emended by Haliday himself iiito Malacomyia in 

 Westwood's Mod. Class. Ins. Generic Synopsis, p. 144 (1840), has priority over 

 Phycodroma, Stenh. (1855), and must replace it. In the Addenda to the second 

 volume of Walker's Insecta Brit. Dipt. (vol. iii, p. xiii, 1856), Haliday caUed 

 attention to this by placing Phycodroma fncorum, Zett., as a synonym of 

 Malacomyia sciomyzina, Hal. Agassiz in his Nomenclator Zoologicus quotes 

 a genus Malacomyia, Desv., 1830, and Scudder copied him in 1883, but I cannot 

 trace that Desvoidy ever described such a genus though lie iised the family 

 name Malacomydx. 



The genus (Edoparca has been placed by continental Dipterologists in this 

 family. 



It should be noted that Haliday's description of Coelopa frigida in Ent. 

 Mag., I, 167 (1833), referred to frigida of Meigen (nee Fallen), and was the 

 same as pilipes of Haliday Ann. Nat. Hist., II, 186 (1838), thus making pilipes, 

 Hal., the type of the genus Coelopa. 



Fucomyia frigida. Fin. — C. simplex, Hal., should appear as a synonym of 

 this species (v. Hal. in Walk. Ins. Brit. Dipt., Addenda, vol. iii, p. xiii, 1856). 



Fucomyia glabra, Wlk., of the List is according to the type a greasy 

 specimen of Hydromyza livens, F., and therefore disappears as a synonym. 



