30 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
noticeable in ¢); the elytral punctuation is almost entirely 
regular (even near the scutel), and with the punctures on each 
interval more or less confluent; in some intervals, especially 
towards the sides and rear, the intervals are widened and 
punctures increased; body below nearly black in ?. Nearly 
allied to what I call geminata, Boh., from Rio, but separable by 
the hind tibia of the ¢. 
(To be continued.) . +s 
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AN ORTALID FLY IN BRITISH “AMEE. 
By Tf. D. A. CockEeREnn: 
In the ‘ Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society,’ vol. v, pp. 92-95, Mr. Alfred 8. Foord described the 
insects found in amber washed up on the shore in the vicinity of 
Yarmouth, Norfolk. A plate was given with numerous figures. 
Only two species of insects were specifically determined, Apis 
Scholastes foordi. — 
mellifera (mellifica) and Blatta orientalis ; the latter determina- 
tion is incorrect. The specimens are all in the Museum of 
Geology of Cambridge University, where I examined them years 
ago. Recently, with the kind permission of Prof. Marr, I 
have again had them out for examination, and have figured and 
described one of the species as follows: 
Scholastes foordi, n. sp. 
Broad, about 9 mm. long, the abdomen turned downward at end. 
Dusky, testaceous beneath, apparently darker above; vertex dark, 
but not black, without the pallid transverse stripes of S. cinctus, 
Guér. ; apical joint of antenne whitish ; dorsum of thorax bare, but 
four strong lateral bristles in a longitudinal row anterior to the 
wings, exactly as in S. vicariws, Hend.; the scutellar bristles are 
also similar, but whether six I cannot determine: abdomen broad 
and short, as usual in the genus; venation also as in living species, 
but the second vein not so distinctly elevated or humped about the 
middle and lower apical corner of discal cell less produced ; pattern 
of wings less pronounced than in the living species, but of the same 
type (for details see figure). 
This is fig. 7 of Foord’s plate, which shows the whole fly. 
I am much indebted to Mr. C. G. Lamb, Mr. F. W. Edwards 
