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Oxyna, Desv. — The following British species of Tcphrltis belong to this 

 genus : Tcphritis parietina, L.^ Jlavipcnnis, Lw., prohoscidca, Lw., plantaginis, 

 Hal., tcssellata, Lw., ahsinthii, F., elongatula, Lw., and parvula, Lw. 



*Oxyna parvula, Lw. — I am convinced that a small species not vincommon 

 m Stoke Wood (Herefordshire) in July, and found by Mr. C. J. Wainwright in 

 Wyre Forest (Worcestershire) in July must represent this species ; it comes 

 near ahsinthii and argyrocephala, but the thorax is not striped, the abdomen 

 has only two rows of spots, and the femora are pale with dark stripes, or even 

 broad dark rings. 



Tcphritis dioscurea, Lw. — I consider the specimens upon which this species 

 was added to the " List " to be only leontodontis, it therefore remains uncon- 

 firmed as British. 



Euarcsta guttata, Fin. — I have not seen a British specimen of this species. 

 The genus Eua7-esta was sixggested by Loew in his Monog. Dipt. N. America, 

 iii, 296 (1873), for a group of species intermediate in their wing-markings 

 between Tcphritis and Urcllia, but there is no mention of it in the fovirth 

 volume of Kertesz's Catalogue. 



Sbpsid^. 



Sepsis violacea, Mg. — E. Fray, of Helsingfors, who has recently written 

 upon this family, considers that violacea, Mg., like punctum, has only one pair 

 of dorso-central bristles ; I have seen the type in the Paris Museiim and noted 

 that it possessed two pairs and agTeed with our species of that name. 



Sepsis Jiavimana, Mg., which is in the List in italics, has been considered 

 identical with the next species, rujicornis, Mg., but there is a considerable 

 difference in size given by Meigen ; anyhow, a description made from only the 

 female should not have priority over one made from both sexes. The name 

 had better be struck out of the List. 



Sepsis rujicornis, Mg. — Specimens from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshii-e, 

 and Herefordshire, agree with a pair in the Paris Museum so named by Meigen, 

 and with Frey's description of Jiavimana. Walker professed to recognise the 

 species as British. 



Sepsis cynipsea, L. — Frey's identification of this species is not the same as 

 Stseger's, the latter's description of " tihiis anticis acute excisis " evidently points 

 to his having before him the species called by Frey, incisa, Strobl. I prefer 

 to accept Stseger's identification. Frey's cynipsea is the same as oui S. 

 nigripes, Mg. 



Sepsis ornata, Mg., is a synonym of S. punctum, F. 



Sepsis pilipes, v. d. Wulp. — Two authors described a species under this 

 name, van der Wulp in 1871, and Loew in 1873, and Hendel in 1902 (Wien. 

 Ent. Zeit., 265) proposed the name Iceivi for S. pilipes of Loew ; I very mvich 

 doubt if there are two distinct species with long hairs on the middle and hind 

 femora in the male (Ilendel was wrong in thinking that van der Wulp's species 

 had long hairs on only the hind femora, and Loew's species long hairs on only 

 the middle femora) though van der Wulp's specins was described as having 

 " een weenig in 't ogg vallend stomp tandje" in the middle of the front femora 



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