110 May, 



apically tricarinate inetano'um and large size. Head transverse, as broad as 

 thorax, black, willi mouth red ; metanotum subdeplanate ; wings infuscate, 

 apically subhyaline ; legs red, with the coxae and trochanters mainly, hind 

 tibiae apically, black. Abdomen red, ovate, and apically rounded ; anus, basal 

 segment and disc of the intermediate, black ; second segment with a triangular 

 black mark ; terebra (in my specimen) as long as abdomen. Length, mm, 

 <? unknown. 



Monks' Soham House, Suffolk : 

 March, 1906. 



A NKW SPECIES OF PHOEA, AND FOUR OTHERS NEW TO THE 



BRITISH LIST. 



BY THE REV. W. J. WINGATE. 



A few months a»^o while exaininiiiL'^ some eighteen specimens of 

 Phora which I had put aside for identification, I was surprised to 

 find one very marked species which I felt certain was new, and three 

 others which I identified from Becker's monograph as nigricornis. 

 Egg, nudipfilpis. Beck., and ruficornis, Mg., none of which are in 

 Verrall's List of the British species. There were also five others 

 about which I was uncertain. As this was so unlikely a catch out of 

 so few specimens, I distrusted my own identifications, and I therefore 

 sent them to Mr. Becker, of Liegnitz, who had most kindly con- 

 sented to examine them for me. He fully confirmed my identifica- 

 tions as regards the new species and the three above named. Of the 

 five others, one was pulicaria, Fin., one a variety of the same, one 

 rufipes. Mg., one minor, Ztt., and the fifth Mr. Becker at first con- 

 sidered to be another new species ; but on my calling his attention to 

 its perfect agreement with his umhrimargo, he agreed with me that it 

 was that species. 



P. niqricornis and nudipalpis belong to Becker's first division of 

 the genus Phora, in w^hich the tibiae bear bristles, the frons is without 

 a central furrow, and all the frontal bristles are directed backwards ; 

 ruficornis belongs to the second, while umhrimargo is a transition 

 species, with the channelled frons and bare tibiae of the second divi- 

 sion, but the post-antennal frontal bristles are erect and not bent 

 forward. Nigricornis is distinguished from any other species on the 

 British List, with the second thick vein forked and with only three 

 thin veins present, by its extraordinarily large third antennal joints 

 which are nearly as large as the eyes. Nudipalpis has four thin 



