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to 18tli May, 1903, on the carcass of a cart-mare; 7 6,^9 

 being taken between those dates. In Verrall's List this species 

 was included among the Cordylitridae, but as its affinities 

 appeared to be with the Uelomyzidse near Blepharoptera modesta, 

 probably the best plan would be to give it a family heading 

 Thyreophoridse all to itself. Hendel (Zeit. f. Hym. u. Dipr. 

 iii, Jahrg Heft, iv, p. 215, July 1903) had recently pro- 

 posed the new geuus " Centrophlebomyia " for this species, and 

 with reason, for the two species Thyreophora furoata and T. 

 cynophUa seemed to be generically distinct. In our present 

 knowledge of diptera, where genera could only be looked upon 

 as artificial groups got together for the purpose of facilitating 

 identification, this separation of single species from numerically 

 weak genera was of doubtful utility. 



As regards collecting T. furcata, it might be pointed out 

 that a stern sense of duty was necessary to keep one for any 

 length of time in the neighbourhood of its haunts. 



Colonel Yerbury also exhibited 13 Felidnopteranigripennis, 

 ¥., and said that although only two or three records existed 

 of the occurrence of this species within the British Isles, still 

 it was very abundant at Porthcawl from 24th May to 3rd June 

 of this year. The species was first recorded as British by Mr. 

 Verrall (E. M. M., July 1894, p. 145) from two specimens taken 

 as follows: Dolgelly, June 13th, 1887, and Muchalls, near 

 Aberdeen, June 4th, 1884 ; a third specimen taken May 17th, 

 1893, has been in the B. M. collection since 1893. In April 

 1899 (E. M. M., p. 102), under the heading "British Diptera 

 unrecorded or undescribed by English Authors," Dr. Meade 

 recorded a specimen taken by Miss Prescott-Decie at Chagford, 

 Devon, in 1881. He had apparently overlooked Verrall's 

 previous i-ecord, while it is pi'obable that he was ignorant of 

 the existence of the third specimen referred to above. Of 

 (4) Lucina fasciata, also shown by him. Col. Yerbury said 

 that this was another rare insect which had almost been lost 

 sight of. Recently however Mr. Lamb had met with it in 

 some numbers at Padstow and Weston-super-Mare, while it 

 was stated still to exist in Haliday's old locality, Portmadoc 

 near Dublin. The specimen exhibited was taken at Porthcawl 

 (11th May, 1903), seated on a blade of marram grass, but 



