T66 REPUTED BRITISH SPECIES 



77 Dioctria fuscijies Macq. Walker (misled by Loew) included this as a synonym 



of D .fuscipennis Fall., wliich is a synonym of D. atricapilla Meig., but it is 

 now known to be a distinct common Sicilian species. 



78 D. gagates Meig. Walker (List Dipt. Brit. Mus., 300) recorded an English 



specimen of this species as being in the British Museum, while D. semihyalina 

 Meig., which is a synonym, was recorded by Stephens (Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins., 

 ii., 259) as having been taken by himself within twenty-five miles of London, 

 but from his associating it with only D. atricapilla in a proposed new generic 

 division it is almost certain that he had only the female of that species. D. 

 gagates is an exclusively Portuguese species. 



79 D.Jlavipes Meig. All British authors have included this as a somewhat common 



British species, but always in mistake for D. linearis Fabr. The true 

 D. flavipes Meig. {=hyalipennis Fabr.) may be only a form of D. 

 Baumhaueri Meig. as has been noted under that species, but does not seem 

 to extend so far west as England. 



80 D. hicincta Meig. is a Central and South European species of which D. annulata 



Meig. is a synonym. Stephens (Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins., ii., 259) recorded 

 D. annulata 1 as having been taken by himself within twenty-five miles of 

 London, but his species was probably D. linearis Fabr. 



81 D. lateralis Meig. Stephens included this species in his Catalogue as having 



been taken by himself within twenty-five miles of London, and gave Sy. 

 informis Harr., Ex. 159, pi. xlviii., F. 3, as a synonym. I have very little 

 doubt but that Harris' and Stephens' species was D. Baumhaiieri. Walker 

 in 1854 (List. Dipt. Brit. Mus., v., 385) noted two specimens in the British 

 Museum from Stephens' collection. A specimen of D. Baumhaueri in the 

 Hope Museum at Oxford which came from Westwood's collection bears a 

 label "lateralis." 



82 Lejjtogaster fusca Meig. Stephens included this species in his Catalogue as 



having been seen by him. I think it is very possible that L. fusca Meig. 

 may be distinct from L. cylindrica DeG., but Stephens was probably in error 

 in identifying it as British. 



83 L. pumila Macq. This is a possible synonym of the previous species, but was 



recorded by Stephens (Entomologist, i., 201) as having been taken by him at 

 Harrietsham in Kent in 1840. 



