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LoNCH^;iD^ {continued). 



*Lonchsea hirticcps, Zett.— Dr. Wood has taken this species in Hereford- 

 shire ; it may be recognised by its hairy eyes, dark squamaj, and long antenniB 

 reaching to the mouth edge. 



Lonchxa lenea, Mg.— Included by Stephens in his Catalogue (1829) as 

 having been taken within twenty-five miles of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is 

 practically an unrecognised species, which might well be struck out of the List. 



Lonchsea nigrimana, Mg. — Included by Stephens in his Catalogue (1829) 

 as liaving been caught by himself within twenty-five miles of St. Paul's Cathe- 

 dral. Becker recognises it as a good species near lasiojjhthalma and crcxiidaria, 

 but I have seen nothing answering to this in British collections. 



Obtalid^. 



Ptilonota centralis, F., was recorded as British by Mr. Verrall (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxii, 223) in error for guttata, Mg., but it Avill almost certainly sooner or 

 later be found in Britain. 



Ortalis. — I have never seen a British specimen belonging to this genus and 

 am strongly inclined to think that the two species in otu- List were wrongly 

 identified by Curtis and Stephens. 



Herina luctuosa, Mg. — The generic name Herina is used by Becker for 

 Loew's genus Pteropfectria, and luctuosa, Mg., is the correct name for the species 

 standing in italics in our List as moerens, Mg. (v. Mg., Syst. Beschr., vi, 378) ; it 

 was described from a specimen sent to Meigen by Dr. Leach, and would appear 

 very closely allied to nigrina, Mg. I have seen no specimen answering to the 

 description. 



*Mclieria (Ceroxys) cana, Lw., was taken by Mr. Verrall at Sutton Wash, 

 near Wisbech (Cambs.) on July 15th, 1881, and more recently (July 9th, 1904) 

 at Felixstowe (Suffolk) ; Col. Yerbiuy found it at Shoebtu-yness (Essex) on 

 Jime loth, 1899, at Barmouth (Merioneth) on July 7th, 1902, and commonly at 

 Walton-on-Naze (Essex) in August, 1907. It is as small as M. picta, Mg., but 

 has not the black abdominal bands of that species. It appears necessary to vise 

 the name Melieria, Dsv., for this genus as Becker has done in Vol. iv of Kertesz's 

 Catalogue (where, however, it is spelt Meliera). 



Anaca7npta hyalinata, Pnz. — This is almost certainly another case of wi'ong 

 identification by Stephens, I know of no British specimen. 3Ieckelia, Dsv., 

 having been previously employed in Vermes (1828) cannot supplant the name 

 Aiiacampta, Lw. (v. Loew Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., 1873, p. 17). 



Tanypieza longimana. Fin., recorded as British by Kev. E. N. Bloomfield 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1904, p. 60), is now placed in the Ortalinse. 



* Psairoptera albitarsis, Zett. — Col. Yerbury and Mr. C. G. Lamb found this 

 species near Nethy Bridge (Inverness) in June, 1905. It may be distinguished 

 from the other British genera of Ortalidx with short rounded antennae by its 

 transversely oval eyes and its short face without the usvial keel. 



Seoptera, Kirby, was first distinguished in Kirby and Spence's Introduction 

 to Entomology II, p. 305, 1817, long before Myodina, Dsv., and consequently has 

 priority. 



