10 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
may possibly claim a fourth as British. The larve of these 
interesting flies feed mostly on the seeds of our composite 
plants. I have already reared several. I have one to add to the 
Trypetide this year. It is Trypeta stellata, Fuessli. Curtis 
noticed the fly in the heads of the corn chamomile (Anthemis 
cotula) and raised it in August. Our continental friends have 
reared the same fly from the groundsel, ragwort, chamomile, and 
even the goat’s-beard (Tragopogon pratensis). I raised a beautiful 
example of this fly on the 17th of July, from the flower-head 
of Coreopsis grandiflora, a garden flower that came from Cam- 
bridge. The star at the tip of the wing is very conspicuous. It 
would seem, from Kaltenbach, to be exclusively attached to 
composite vegetation. 
I found, in September, the leaves of a tall-growing buttercup 
(Ranunculus lingua) that is not uncommon in the fenny parts 
of Yorkshire, mined, apparently, by one of the Anthomyidae, 
The mine commences at the top of the long leaf, and runs nearly 
parallel to the mid-vein the whole length of the leaf. I am well 
acquainted with the mines of Phytomyza flava, whose white and 
twisted minings are so common on the leaves of the creeping crow- 
foot (R. repens), and have often bred the miner. ‘The economy 
of this miner, however, differs from that of the one that affects 
Ranunculus lingua, even allowing for all differences in the shape 
of the respective leaves. Many of the leaves, I may remark, 
were mined from end to end in a straight line. The larve had 
all escaped from the mines, so that we must infer that they 
pupate in the soil below. My latest, and possibly my best 
discovery in insect life, in 1885, is Cecidomyia caricis, if 1 can but 
succeed in rearing the imago. I found it, as a larva, feeding on 
the rudimentary utricle of Carex muricata; it has since spun a 
slight web within the overwrapping scales, that will serve it as a 
home for the winter. ‘The Carex that is affected by the cecid is 
fond of moist meadows. I should infer, therefore, that the pupa 
will need to be kept fairly moist, till it gives forth its tenant, 
much after the method I have adopted so successfully in the case 
of C. cardaminis. It has not been reared that I am aware of. 
Bergenstamm says in his ‘Synopsis,’ published at Vienna in 1876: 
“Tmago unknown”; and in a supplementary note, H. Loew simply 
adds: “the larve deform the fruits of Carex muriecata.” 
Fulwith Grange, near Harrogate, December, 1885. 
