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L. griseus. The commonest species and subject to variation in 

 size and marking. Reykjavik, Tliingvellir, Siglafjord, Eskefjord, 

 Ofjord (or Akureyri), Isafjord, Engey. 



Grammotaulius atomarius. One specimen. Reykjavik. 



Hymenoptera. 

 Bombus hortorum. Reykjavik, Thingvellir, Eskefjord. 

 Ichneumon albicinctus (female). Engey. 

 Pimpla sodalis. Thingvellir. 

 P. sodalis? (possibly female). 



Diptera, 



Helophilus pmdulus. Reykjavik, Engey, Thingvellir, Eskefjord. 



Scatophaga stercoraria. Reykjavik, Thingvellir, et passim. 



CiUex pipiens. Reykjavik Hotel, Reykjavik, Thingvellir. 



Homalomyia canicularis. Akureyri. 



Calliphora erythrocephala. Reykjavik, Engey, Thingvellir, Hafna- 

 fjord, Krisuvik, Reykafjord, Akureyri, Vopnafjord, et passim. 



C. greenlandica. Reykjavik, Hafna^ord, Krisuvik, Akureyri, 

 Vopnafjord. 



C. vomitoria. Generally common. 



Sarcophaga mortuorum. Reykjavik, Hafnafjord, Krisuvik, Sauda- 

 krok, Siglufjord, Akureyri, Vopnafjord, Seydisfjord, Eskefjord. 



Scava pyrastri (black var.). AJiureyri. 



Simulia reptans. Near Geysir. 



Musca azurea. Akureyri, 



M. domestica. Reykjavik, &c. 



Spharophoria scripta. Thingvellir. 



Drymeia hamata. Thingvellir. 



Syrphus nitidulxis. Thingvellir. 



8. ribesii. Thingvellir. 



iS'. arcuatus. Thingvellir. 



Platychirus albimanus. Thingvellir, Reyjavik. 



Limnophila arctica. Thingvellir. 



L. arctica yax.fuscipennis near (unless n. sp.). Thingvellir. 



The Otiorhynchus above-mentioned among the Coleoptera, 

 should be divided into two species, of which 0. monticola is by 

 far the commonest, being widely distributed, and occurring at 

 nearly every fjord. 0. maurus is met with at Keykjavik and 

 Thingvellir. 



The Nehria brevicollis above recorded should by rights be 

 Nehria gyllenhali, the same species as Staudinger mentions 

 having found in Iceland. Nehria gyllenhali is smaller than N. 

 brevicollis, which latter species I captured at Thorshavn, Faroe 

 Isles. 



I found Calathus melanocephalus at Revkjavik to consist 

 mostly of Staudinger's var. nubigena with the black or blackish 

 thorax, very few of the typical form with the red thorax. The 



