reO REPUTED BRITISH SPECIES 



TABANID^. 



23 Theriojdectes tarandimts L. Included in Stephens' Catalogue and Curtis' Guide, 



but Duncan in Mag. Zool. Bot., i., p. 365 (1837) said "It has been long 

 " included in our British Catalogues, but we have never seen any particular 

 " locality cited for it. It is most likely to occur in the North of Scotland.'' 

 Seventy years have elapsed and there has not been the slightest confirmation 

 of its occurrence in Britain. 



24 T. aterrimvs Meig. Probably only recorded under its synonym of T. signatus 



Meig., and then through a mistaken idea that T. signatus was a synonym of 

 T. micans Meig. Walker's T. signatus Wdm. (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i., 39) probably 

 referred to T. tropicus L. var hisignatus Jaenn. 



25 T. horealis Meig. I have dealt with this at some length under T. montanus 



Meig. (p. 366). 



26 Atylotus anthracinus Meig. is a species limited to South Europe and North 



Africa, and consequently Walker's T. anthracinus (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i., 37) 

 must refer to some other species ; he said " Rare. In the collection of the 

 " Entomological Club (E.)," but I have been unable to trace any such 

 specimen ; I cannot distinguish Walker's description from specimens of 

 T. atitumnalis. 



27 A. gigas Herbst. The synonym, T. aLhij^es Fabr., was included in Curtis' Guide, 



Ed. ii., 243. 



28 A. nemoralis Meig. is a South European and North African species, which was 



included in Curtis' Guide, Ed. ii., 243. 



29 A. vittatus Fabr. is also confined to the same district as the preceding species, 



but Duncan in Mag. Zool. Bot., i., 364 (1837) said that Mr Babington stated 

 that he had found a specimen in Monkswood, Hunts, on June 17, 1828. 

 Duncan's description (as I believe was often the case) appears to be a hashed 

 up translation of Meigen's. It was also included by Captain Blomer in a list 

 of insects captured at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, in 1832 (Ent. Mag., i., 317). 



30 Tabanus grcecus Fabr. This species was included in Curtis' Guide, Ed. ii., 243, 



but subsequently omitted as British until I reintroduced it on insufficient 

 grounds in 1886 (Entom. Mon. Mag., xxii., 200). 



BOMBYLID^. 



31 Phthiria fulva Latr, was recorded as British by Westwood in his Introduction 



to the Modern Classification of Insects in a foot-note on p. 131 of his Generic 

 Synopsis. I know nothing about it. Walker tried to recognise Olivier's 

 M. gibhosa under our P. lyulicaria, but subsequent writers have failed unless 

 Meigen revived Olivier's name for Geron gibbosus, which may account for his 

 suppressing his own older name of hybridus. 



32 Systoechus ctenoj^terus Mikan. This species was included in Stephens' Catalogue 



(1829), and Curtis in British Entomology, 613 (1836) said "July Dover, 

 " Devon Mr J. Cocks, and near Perth " ; as however he quoted his description 

 from Meigen in inverted commas it may be presumed that he did not 

 personally know the species ; his first locality is elaborated elsewhere into 

 "Dover, July 1826 Mr Ingpen." Walker's B. ctenojiterus (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i.. 



