1910.] 195 



during' the Field Meeting at Eanmore on Jvme iHth, including Cryptocephalus 

 corrjli, C. morsei, Stiroma albomarginata (developed forms), Deltocephalus abdo- 

 minalis, &c. Mr. Carr, a collection of Lepidoptera taken in the Wye Valley 

 during July and August, 1909, including Leucophasia sinapiis, Grapta c-album, 

 a fine series of Cidaria picata, &c. Mr. E.. Adkin, series of Endromis versicolor 

 and Biston hirtaria reared from ova sent him from Aviemore in 1908, and i-ead 

 notes on the emergences in 1909 and 1910. Several of the former species, and 

 many of the latter were apparently going over another year. Mr. Sich, a beetle 

 reared from a yellow silken cocoon fotind at Eanmore Common on Hippocrepis 

 comosa. Mr. Cowham, a Nyssia zonaria, mainly ? , but liaving antennas slightly 

 pectinated and unusually large wings. Mr. Edwards, a number of large species 

 of Coleoptera, among which were Oxynopierus audouinii (a gynandi'omorph) 

 from N. Borneo, Ceratorrhina morgani and C. quadrimaculata from W. Africa. 

 Mr. W. J. Kaye, numerous aberrant specimens of Polyommatus icarus, varying 

 in ground colour, with conflxient spots, develo^jed marginal spots, &c. Mr. F 

 Noad Clark, photographs taken by him diu-ing the Field Meeting at Eanmore 

 Common ; and reported that JE. tipuliformis had been common in his garden at 

 Wembley, the '^ s "assembling" from about 1.30 to 2 p.m. — Ht. J. Tukneb, 

 Hon. Secretary . 



ON THE BEITISH SPECIES OF PHORA. 

 BY JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. 



(Continued from pi. 154). 



Section D. 

 (32) (31) Halteres black. 



<J ? . A deep black species with clear, almost hyaline, wings : — Thorax and 

 abdomen black, pleural bristles strong and of pretty imiform size ; frons 

 fully 3 broader than long, 4 moderate and nearly eqvial supra-antennal 

 bristles, the upper ones nearly in alignment with inner bristles of middle 

 frontal row and the under closely approximated, antennse rather small, 

 palpi black ; wings nearly or quite hyaline, tliin veins fine and indistinct, 

 thick veins black, 2nd thick vein somewhat arched, hence costal cells deep, 

 costa f wing length, fringe full long, 1 from 2 to 3 times as long as 2 + 3, 

 angle at fork moderate ; legs from blackish-brown to deep black, hind tibias 

 somewhat dilated towards distal end, and hind metatarsi also somewhat 

 stout, cilia very fine and numerous ; hypopygium large and glossy at the 

 base, without bristles or conspicuous hairs, isroduced below into a pair of 

 incurved processes between Avhich when seen from behind the black and 

 shining subanal body comes into view, at the tips of the processes a small 

 curved hair directed backwards may often be made out, the long and 

 slender ventral plate yellow or dusky, anal organ small and papilla-like, 

 black or dusky yellow 1 mm. clavipes, n. sp. 



33 (26) Mesopleurse bare. 



3-4 (39) Halteres black or brown (halterata). 



35 (38) Hypopygium without bristles underneath. 



