1910.] 275 



Scrabster. This example was unfortimately entirely destroyed as the 

 result of a violent storm that occurred before Colonel Yerbury could 

 e^et back to his hotel. The wings are so remarkable that a mistake in 

 the identification is improbable. I am indebted to Mr. Lamb for 

 suggesting the name. 



Zetterstedt informs us that the species is common in Lapland, 

 where it is found running on the surface of stagnant waters, agitating 

 its wings as if in flight. It has probably only to be looked for, in 

 conformity with this habit, to be found commonly on the lakes of 

 North-eastern Scotland. Zetterstedt stares that it does not occur to 

 the South of Lapland, except on the frigid waters of the Jemtland 

 Hills, at an elevation of 3500 feet (Dipt. Scand., v., p. 1980). 



In the Catalogue of Palsearctic Diptera (iv, p. 15), the species 

 is ascribed to Germany on the authority of Becker and of Kiedel. 

 Becker, however, never mentions Germany, but states that it occiu's 

 only in the North (Berl. ent. Zeitschr., xxxix, 180i, p. 136). Riedel 

 records the occurrence of E. anjus on the shores of Lake Lubow, near 

 Neu Stettin, in North Germany (Allg. Zeitschr., Ent. vi, 1901, p. 153). 



Brockenhurst : 



October Slst, 1910. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE DIPTEEOUS GENUS LIM08INA, Macq. 



(BORBORID^E), FEOM CEYLON, 



WITH HABITS SIMILAE TO THOSE OF L. SACRA, Meig. 



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



For some years past the fact that large Coprid beetles might 

 often be found infested by a small species of Diptera in addition to 

 the usual mites has been well known to different Entomological 

 collectors in Ceylon ; it did not escape the observation of Col. J. W. 

 Yerbuiy in 1890, at Trincomali, and on a label attached to the 

 specimens in the British Museum captured by him on December 16th, 

 1890, it is stated that he found 15 flies upon one specimen of Scara- 

 haius indiciis, Motsch. ; nor was it unknown to Mr. E. E. Green, who 

 recorded the occurrence in Spolia Zeylaniea, vol. iv (1907), p. 183, 

 as follows : " November 8th : Found a dung beetle (Coprid) which, 

 besides the usual collection of mites, was infested by a number of 

 small hairy flies. They were clinging to the under surface of its 

 thorax and abdomen and did not attempt to fly away when the beetle 

 was handled, but allowed themselves to lie dropped into a tube of 

 alcohol together with their host." Finally, Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 



