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14. Bliipidia etenophora, Lw. : I caugbt one female of this at 

 Lyndhurst on the 18th of June last. Only one specimen has been 

 hitherto recorded, which was bred at Erankfort-on-the Maine. 



15. Limnohia macrostigma, Schum. : common at Lyndhurst last 

 June. 



16. L. anmilus, Mg. : one female at Lyndhurst on June 22nd, 

 1872. This is the grandest species of all the LimnohiadcB, except 

 perhaps Pedicia rivosa. 



17. L. nigropunctata, Schum. : one female at Darenth on May 

 12th, 1867. I also have one caught this spring near Lewes by Mr. 

 J. H. A. Jenner. 



18. Tliaumastoptera calceata, Mik : this exceedingly rare species 

 occurred abundantly in a hedgerow near Lymington last June ; three 

 or four might be caught in one stroke of the net. Mik described it 

 in 1866 (Verb, zool.-bot. Wien, xvi, 302) from two males and five 

 females caught by him at Grorz (Goritz) in Austria, and since then I 

 have only noticed the record of one specimen caught by Westhoff in 

 Westphalia in 1882. 



19. Aritocha opalizans, O.-Sack. : the occurrence of this species in 

 Great Britain is possibly of even more interest than the last, as it was 

 originally described from North America ; it has, however, since been 

 observed in Austria and Switzerland. I caught two specimens in 

 June, 1884, at Tongue, it therefore very likely lurks under one of 

 Zetterstedt's unrecognised Scandinavian species ; it is also undoubtedly 

 the species intended in Stephens' Catalogue, vol. ii, page 243 ; Genus 

 20 : (1144) — 7893, 1 ; thoracicus, miJii, as many specimens occur in the 

 British Museum under that name ; this is another proof of the accuracy 

 of Stephens' eye as far as a "genus" was concerned. The group 

 which Osten-Sacken has named Limnohina anomala seem to me to be 

 remnants from a very ancient time, nearly all of them being exceed- 

 ingly widely spread, but left only in isolated colonies ; they are also 

 interesting in being the obvious stepping stones from the Limnohince 

 to the EriopterincB, the closest links of which at present are Thaumas- 

 toptera for the former and Goniomyia or Empeda for the latter, Tliau- 

 mastoptera being apparently a Ooniomyia with the short fork of the 

 radial vein ending in the sub-costal vein, instead of in the costa. 



20. Empedaflava, Schum. : this is not uncommon ; I have taken 

 it near here, and also last June at Bonchurch, Lymington and Lynd- 

 hurst. This is a species which may or may not be considered new to 

 Britain, as undoubtedly when "Walker (Ins. Brit. Dipt., iii, 275) de- 

 scribed Acypliona imhuta, Mg., he had a sj^ecimen of this E. flava 

 before him ; however, as both species are British, one must be new to 

 Britain. {To be continued). 



