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Ulidia nigrii^en^iis, Lw., was recorded as British l^y Mr. Wesche (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 1905, p. 227). The specimens in the British Museum are only evTjthroph- 

 thalma, Mg., while those vinder this latter name are Chrysomyza demandata, F. 

 U. nigrijpennis has, therefore, no right to remain in the List. 



TKYPETID.a;. 



Platyparea discoidea, F. — There is a specimen in Dale's Collection correctly 

 named, and there are specimens (probably British) in the Collections at the 

 Bi'itish Museum, while Walker's figvire of his Aciura lychnidis (Ent. Mag., iii, 72, 

 Plate ix, f. 15) undovibtedly refers to this species ; it need therefore no longer 

 remain in italics in the ■' List." 



Acidia lychnidis, F., in the latest catalogue is given as a synonym of 

 csBsio, Harris, under which name it will have to be known in futiu-e. 



Spilo(jrapha abrotani, Mg., belongs to the genus (or sub-gentis) Stemonocera, 

 End., and Spilograpiha alternata, Fin., and meigeid, Lw., to Zonoscma, Lw. 



Rhagoletis cerasi, L. — The British records of this species almost certainly 

 refer to Herina {Pteropsectria) frondescentix, of which cerasi, Mg. (ncc L.) is a 

 synonym. I have never seen a British specimen of cerasi, L., though I possess 

 specimens bred from what were probably foreign cherries bought in the market. 

 Tephritis hehe, Newman, == Sphenella signata, Wlk., is certainly not a synonym 

 of cerasi, L., but of a species of Myojntes. 



Goniglossum, End. — The generic name Orellia of Desvoidy has been 

 revived for this genus. 



Tryjieta onotrophes, Lw., is now known as cylindrica, Desv. 

 *Trypeta acuticornis, Lw. — This species is closely allied to serratulm, but is 

 larger, has a faint cloudmg about the apical half of the wing, and a female 

 ovipositor as long as the abdomen. It was fovmd by Col. Yerbiuy in the 

 neighbourhood of Porthcawl (Glamorgan) in 1903 and again in 1908. 



Urophora spoliata, Hal. — The only specimens of this species known to me 

 are those in the Dale Collection at Oxford. The black ovipositor of the female 

 is nearly as long as the rest of the abdomen. 



Myopitcs. — I believe we possess two species of this genus in Britain, blotii, 

 Breb., of which ijiula; v Kos, is probably a synonym, and frauenfeldi, Schin., 

 but these two have never been well differentiated. Dale recorded inulse in 1904 

 as common on Imda crithmoides, but the five males and seven females in his 

 collection represent my idea of frauenfeldi. There is no doubt that Walker's 

 description of signata, Mg., and Newman's description of hehe apply to a 

 species of this genus. 



Oxyphora, Dsv., is retained by Becker in Kertesz's Catalogue and includes 

 Jiava, Geoffr. (= miliaria, Schruk.), and corniculata, Zett. 



Icterica, Lw., was founded in Monog. Dipt. North America, iii, 287 (1873) 

 for ivestermanni, but is not mentioned by Becker at all. Icterica and Oxyphora 

 have the cubital vein bristly above and below, in Oxyna and in TJrellia (except 

 cometa, Lw.) that vein is absolutely bare ; in Tephritis, Euaresta, and TJrellia 

 comcta it is bare above hut bristly hcloic, a character overlooked by Loew. 



