In tho Ent. Mo. Miig./lH07, Marshall described all the then 

 known Britisli species nuder the name Huptcrijx, Curtis, but gave 

 sectional characters. 



In his " Cicadinen," 1868, Kirschbaum puts all the species ho 

 describes into three sections of Typlilocyha, G-erm. -f-pt /•'/'*,"/^/^,V a/ 



In his " Cicadaria," 1871, Dr. J. Sahlberghas, in the main, adopted'^^y 

 riobor's scheme of genera, modifying it, however, by uniting Aiiomia,^^,^ 

 Zygina, Idia, and TijpMocijln, under the name of Ti/phlocyhn, and / 

 Chluria and Kyhos under the name of Cicadula, Zett. The former set 

 of these modifications, founded upon consideration of the small amount 

 of difference in the neuration of the wings, as shown by Fieber 

 himself (and in some cases admitted by him subsequently), is, I think, 

 justifiable ; but the adoption of the name Cicadula for part of Zetter- 

 stedt's section " b " cannot be maintained, for the reasons stated above, 

 and on account also of the generic discordance among the species cited. 

 The figures of the neuration of the wings, on which the genera are 

 chiefly founded, are excellent. 



In 1872, Fieber published his " Katalog der europaischen Cica- 

 dinen," in which, on the ground of prior use, he alters Compsus to 

 Alehra, and Chlorla to Ghlorita ; and he unites Erijthria w^ith Notus, 

 and Idia with Zygina. But he relinquishes his former correct idea of 

 Eupteryx, Curt., which he calls TypMocyha, Germ., refers the species 

 previously associated under the latter name to Anomia and Zygina, 

 and drops Eupteryx, Curt., altogether; fortunately, these latter 

 arbitrary propositions appear only in a Catalogue, and without show 

 of justification, but it is necessary to notice them to prevent mis- 

 conception by those who follow. 



{To he continued) . 



ON THE AREANaEMENT OF THE BRITISH ANTROMYIID^. 

 BY E. n. MEADE. 



The small and sombre flies comprised in the Dipterous family 

 AnthomyiidcB are very little known to British entomologists ; but their 

 nimibers, both in species and individuals, are so great in this and other 

 cold and temperate climates, that they deserve more attention than 

 they have received. They are confessedly difficult to determine ; but 

 this very difficulty adds to the interest which they should excite, and 



