June, 1910.] |25 



BOEBOKID^. 



In Kertesz "Katalog," vol. iv (1905), the Borhoridse are placed next to the 

 Coelopidag (Phycodromidse) , the situation assigned to them by Haliday in 

 Westwood's Introd. Mod. Class. Ins. Generic Synopsis (1840). 



*Limosma septentrionalis, Stenh. — I have seen a male from Nairn (Scotland), 

 July 10th, 1904, and a female from Porthcawl (Glamorgan), July 19th, 1896, 

 both taken by Col, Yerbury. 



*Limosina hreviceps, Stenh. — I have found this species in abundance on the 

 shores of Poole Harbour (Dorset) in September and at different places on the 

 Suffolk coast in August and September. 



*Limosina br achy stoma, Stenh. — This species was plentiful on the sea-shore 

 at Worth (Dorset) towards the end of August, 1906. 



DEYOMYZID^. 



The genera Dryomyza, Neuroctena, Neottiophilum, and Actora have been 

 united luider the above family name. 



*Dryomyza senilis, Zett. — We appear to possess this species in Britain in 

 addition to flaveola and decrepita. I have seen specimens taken by Mr. Verrall 

 from Rannoch (Perthshire) and the island of Arran. 



HETEEONEURID^. 



This family has been recently dealt with by Czerny (Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1903) 

 where he founded a genus Heteromeringia for nigriniana, Lw., and sank alpina> 

 Lw., as a synonym of geomyzina. Fin. 



*Acartophthalmus nigrinus, Zett. — This species does not appear to be 

 uncommon in suitable localities ; it has been found by Dr. Sharp and Mr. C. G. 

 Lamb in the New Forest (September, 1903), by Col. Yerbury at Nethy Bridge 

 (Inverness), (August, 1904), and at the same place by Mr. Lamb (June, 1905), 

 while Mr. J. E. Malloch has sent me specimens from Bonhill (Dvimbarton) 

 taken in Jiily, 1908, and I found it on the stimips of recently felled oak trees 

 at Barton Mills (Suffolk) in May, 1909. 



*Acartopht'halnius bicolor, Oldenberg. — When collecting in a large wood 

 near here (Cambridgeshire) in company with Col. Yerbury at the end of May, 

 1909, I caught a n\imber of this Acartophthalmus which I recognised as being 

 distinct from A. nigrinus in having pale antennae, front of frons and face and 

 darkened costa. It was described in Heft III of the Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 

 published on May 2nd last. 



The generic name Stomphastica was proposed by Loew to replace Clusia, 

 Hal., because the latter name had been employed by Linne in Botany, but on 

 the stx-ength of " Eecent Eules of Nomenclature " Czerny has revived Haliday's 

 name, and proposed the generic name Paraclusia for tigrina. Fin. 



Helomyza similis, Mg. — Specimens of what I had believed to be H. suilloidea 

 (Desv.), Hal., were returned to me by Czerny as H. tigrina, Mg. {= similis, Mg.), 

 but I cannot agree with Czerny that this species must be called tigrina, Mg. 

 In 1830 Meigen described what he thought was Fallen's Helomyza tigrina, but 

 in 1838 came to the conclusion that his species was not the same as Fallen's 

 (in which he was quite right, as Fallen's species was afterwards found to be 

 generically distinct) and therefore renamed his species similis. Fallen's tigrina 



