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Fitton ; from Church Stretton, Shropshire, by Mr. S. Harley 

 Kough ; from Ballinacourt, Tipperary, by Mr. Sym Scott ; and 

 from Dromore Castle, Kenmare, Kerry, by Dr. R. J. Mahoney. 



The mangold-fly belongs to that immense Dipterous family, 

 the Mitscidcs ; Schiner describes 359 genera, and there are many 

 others occurring in Europe. It is included in the subfamily 

 AnthomyiidcB. This division includes a whole host of species, so 

 closely allied that they are particularly difficult to separate. 

 Their economy is very variable, the larvte feeding on vegetable or 

 animal matter, dead or living. Of the phytophagous species some 

 feed in bulbs, roots, or stems, as the well-known onion flies {A. 

 platura, Meig. ; A. antiqua, Meig.^c<?jja?7im, Westw. ; A. furcata, 

 Bouche) ; the too common radish fly (A. floralis, Fallen) ; and 

 the cabbage flies {A. radicum, L. ; A. rujiceps, Meig.; the com- 

 pound A. brassicce, &c). One species is very destructive to 

 lettuce seed {A. lactucce, Bouche). Of leaf blotchers there are 

 several, mostly imperfectly known and with their synonjuny 

 greatly involved. Field naturalists and systematists do not always 

 work together. These leaf -feeders generally have yellow ab- 

 domens, and are included in Macquart's genus Pegomyia, to 

 which his CJiortopJiila is very closely allied, but this includes the 

 dark-bodied species. The common dock leaf miner is P. mitis, 

 Meig., Macq. = rumicis, Desv. P. bicolor, Wied., similarly 

 blotches other species of Riimex. P. hyoscyami, Panz., Macq., 

 afl'ects the henbane, and our species of goosefoot {Chenopodium) 

 and orache {Atrlplex) are blotched b}^ a species doubtfull}' distinct 

 from it ; Goureau called this P. atrlpUcis, and Kondani P, 

 clienopodii. This brings us into very close proximity with our 

 mangold species ; the botanic genus Beta coming between 

 Chenopod'mm and Atrlplex. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES F R I\I TAYNUILT. 

 By Reginald E. Salwet. 



I HAD the opportunity of spending three weeks in Taynuilt, 

 Argyllshire, last June, and have extracted a few notes from m}' 

 diary of my entomologicaldoings there. 



Taynuilt is a scattered village situated about half-way between 



