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dore, while the posterior pair are but mere bristles about one- 
sixth the length of the anterior, to which they are united by 
three small hooks. 
“This new species I was fortunate in capturing. last Satur- 
day, June 3rd, 1911, at Burnham Beeches, where I had been 
sweeping for Mymaridae, but with very poor results—only 
twelve common species. Noticing some long grass, I swept it. 
Sitting down to examine the small heap of minute bits of sharp 
grass stems and seeds at the bottom of my net, I saw the 
familiar form of Mymar struggling to get free from the débris, 
and knowing that directly it did, it would ‘ hop, skip and jump,’ 
I quickly placed a phiai over it, and corked it safely. I then 
saw that its left antenna was broken. 
“On reaching home I killed my twelve common species, 
and then Wymar, in the thirteenth phial. Proceeding to set 
it out, I found the battledore wings in a tangle, and 
endeavoured to brush them out; a small piece of ‘fluff’ 
kept getting in the way, so placing the fly under my micro- 
scope to see which way I could best remove the ‘ fluff,’ I 
focussed it, and for some moments I could not believe my 
own eyes, for instead of ‘fluff’ it was the posterior wing 
three times the length of an ordinary one of Mymar pul- 
chellus, and I began to realise that I had before me a new 
species—for not only were the posterior wings greatly 
elongated into a very narrow battledore with six long hairs 
on the lower margin, but the anterior wings were surrounded 
with sixty long hairs—instead of the thirty-five of Mymar 
pulchellus. In other respects the colour was much the same. 
‘‘ As soon as I could, I made a photomicrograph of it of 
thirty diameters magnification. 
“Considering the importance of this addition to the little- 
known British Mymaridae, I felt that it had appeared at a 
very opportune time, when so many distinguished visitors 
had come for the Coronation of His Most Gracious Majesty 
King George V, so I suggested to Mr. Waterhouse that we 
should christen it IMymar regalis.” 
Mr. C. O. WatERHOUSE commented on the extreme interest 
of this discovery, remarking that the M/ymaridae have very 
small hindwings, in Mymar they are reduced to a mere bristle ; 
