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Female : Frona hiacic, when viewed from the front a sh'ght cinereous tomentum 

 visible ; ocellar friangle, orhita, and upper part of sides of face polished hlacTc ; 

 a large and conspicuous silvery spot above base of antennae ; arista practically hare. 

 Thorax as in ^ , but almost bare, except for the bristles, which are stong and con- 

 spicuous. Ahdomen uniformly shininq hlacTcish, with a slight olivaceous tinge and 

 a trace of cinereous tomentum. Middle femora with two to three strong sub-basal 

 ventral bristles ; middle tihife exactly as in J . Hind femora with two to three 

 long and conspicuous antero-ventral bristles occupying apical third ; hind tihi^ 

 with a single subapical dorsal, a single small median antero-dorsal, and a single 

 postero-dorsal bristle, which is usually post-median and sometimes at one-third from 

 apex, three to four strong and conspicuous antero-ventral bristles, which occupy 

 about the apical half. Wings hyaline. Calyptra and liaUeres as in ^ . 



T liave seen twenty- eisfht specimens of this perfectly distinct 

 species, all from the sonthern counties of Engjland. Dr. J. H. Wood 

 kindly submitted to me examples from Woolhope, Leech Pool, and 

 Whitchurch ; Mr. Yerrall, specimens taken by Dr. Wood in the same 

 localities, and also a (^ from Coombe Marsh ; the British Museum 

 contains examples from Torcross and Woolhope, obtained by 

 Col. Terbury, and which I examined through the kindness of 

 Mr. Austen ; while Mr. Claude Morley sent me a ^ and ? I believe 

 from the Ipswich district. The dates of these specimens ran^^e from 

 June 19th to August 31st. 



The Koyal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh : 

 August, 1905. 



COLFOPTERA FROM FAIR ISLE, NORTH BRITAIN. 



BY PROF. T. HUDSON BEARE, B.Sc, F.E.S. 



I have recently had the pleasure of examining and naming a 

 small collection of Coleoptera made by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on Fair 

 Isle, a small island lying midu'ay between the Orkneys and the Shet- 

 lands. This island is one of the least visited of all the inhabited 

 islands of the British seas, as there is no regular communication by 

 steamer with it ; it is about 2f miles long, and averages about 1 mile 

 in width. Except for a short distance on its southern coast it is 

 surrounded by lofty cliffs, which range from about 100 to 600 feet 

 in height. There are no trees or shrubs of any description on the 

 island, and a very small portion of it — between 200 and 300 acres of 

 extent only — is under cultivation ; the bulk of the island is barren, 

 covered with stunted heather and grass. There are about 100 inhabi- 

 tants, crofter-fishermen, living in the same primitive fashion as their 



