Mr. F. W. Edwards’ Notes on British Mycetophilidae. 335 
FJ. Mr. F. Jenkinson. Logie (Hlgin) ; Crowborough 
(Sussex), ete, 
C.G.L. Mr. C. G. Lamb. New Forest; Nethy Bridge 
(Inverness), ete. 
C.M. Mr. Claude Morley. Suffolk. 
ADP: The late Mr. A. Piffard. Felden (Herts). 
D.S. Dr. D. Sharp. New Forest; Nethy Bridge, 
etc. 
HLS. Mr. Hugh Scott. Henley-on-Thames. 
G.H.V. The late Mr. G. H. Verrall. Newmarket (Suffolk), ete. 
J.H.W. Dr. J. H. Wood. Herefordshire. 
J.W.Y. Lt.-Col. J. W. Yerbury. Sutherland; Inverness; 
Cornwall, ete. 
A considerable amount of new synonymy is given, mainly 
rendered necessary by the identification of a number of 
Walker’s types in the British Museum collections. It is 
most unfortunate that under the existing rules some of 
these names have to take precedence over others which have 
been better founded and are in general use. Although no 
believer in the rigid application of the “ rule of priority,” 
which seems to me mainly to tend to put a premium on 
bad work, I have adopted these names for the sake of 
conformity to rules. 
Certain other changes proposed by Coquillett and 
Johannsen have not been adopted in their entirety. Since 
Rondani was the first to divide Meigen’s Sciophila, I 
have with great reluctance replaced Lasiosoma by Sciophila, 
and Scvophila by Mycomyza, though I cannot agree to spell 
this last name as Rondani did, “‘ Mycomya.” The replac- 
ing of Anaclinia by Neuratelia, Rond., seems to be wrong, 
for since Rondani included his genus in his section BB, 
“venae transversariae non adsunt vel inter primam et 
secundam longitudinales, vel inter secundam et tertiam,”’ 
meaning that the subcostal cross-vein was absent, it is 
evident that he had wrongly identified Meigen’s Mycetophila 
nemoralis, which has a subcostal cross-vein. Whether 
Rondani’s Neuwratelia nemoralis was a species of Leia or 
Paraneurotelia it is impossible to say, and therefore, 
fortunately, there is no excuse for not placing his genus on 
the scrap-heap. 
According to the zoological rules in force at the time when 
Winnertz’s monograph was published ‘* when the evidence 
as to the original type of a genus is not perfectly clear and 
