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Cistus in the Serra de Mouchiqiie, Alg-arve, South Portng-al, on May 13th, and 

 were being fed upon Helianthemum. They resemble the caterpillar of Eriogaster 

 lanestris so closely that a generic separation is hardly justified. Mr. H. C. J. 

 Druce, some notes received from Mr. J. C. Moulton, of the Sarawak Museum, 

 on the association of a Homopteron with a Lyeaniid butterfly observed in 

 Borneo. 



The following- papers were read:— "Mr. A. D. Millar's Experimental 

 Breeding of Euralia," by Eolaud Trimen, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S. "Notes on the 

 ScoZwcia," and " New Fossorial Hymenoptera from Australia," by Rowland E. 

 Turner. " On the position of the Rhopalosomidse, with description of a second 

 new Species," by Claude Morley, F.Z.S. "Descriptions of Malayan Micro- 

 Lepidoptera," by Edward Meyrick, B.A., P.E.S., F.Z.S. "On the Specific 

 Distinctions between Acrsea lycoa, Grodt., and Acra;a johnstoni, Godm.," by 

 Harry Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S. — H. Eowland-Brov7n, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



ADDITIONS AND COREECTIONS TO THE BRITISH LIST OF 

 MUSGIDM ACALYPTBATM. 



BY J. E. COLLIN, F.E.S. 



(Continued from page 129). 



SAPROMYZID^. 



I do not propose to follow Hendel (Genera lusectoriim, 1908, Fasc. 68), in 

 considering the gen vis Sapromyza, a subgenu.s of Lauxania, and conseqiiently 

 have to alter the name of the Family. 



T rig onomct opus, Mcq. — Hendel is probably correct in placing this genus 

 among the Sapromyzidx. 



Minettia, Desv. — The combination of two such characters as the long 

 pltunod arista and the presence of a distinct strong iutra-alar bristle not on the 

 postalar callus in several British species of Sapromyza, appears to be sufficient 

 justification for separating them under the above name. The following species 

 possess these characters : — longipe7mis, F., flaviventris, Costa, trispina. End., 

 lupulina, F., longiseta, Lw., suhvittata, L-w.,/asciata, Fin., plumicornis. Fin., and 

 inusta, Mg. 



*Minettia longiseta, Lw. — This species has a imiformly grey thorax, three 

 pairs of dorso-central bristles, acrostichal bristles in four rows, and the second 

 abdominal segment abbreviated and bearing two long stout bristles on the 

 hind-margin; it was found in some numljers by Col. Yerbury at Torcross 

 (Devon), in August, 1903 ; Mr. Verrall had previously taken a male at St. Mary 

 Cray (Kent), in June, 1869, another male at Dyft'ryn (Merioneth), in July, 1888.- 

 and a female at Leigh (Essex), in June, 1871 ; it was upon these specimens that 

 he added flaviventris, Costa, to the " List," that name, however, may still stand 

 for I have seen true flaviventris from Scotland and Herefordshire taken by 

 Col. Yerbiu-y. 



*Minettia suhvittata, Lw. — I record this with some hesitation, but specimens 

 I had considered to be only fasciata, Fin., appear to belong to this species. 



