Miscellaneous, 497 



XLVI. — Description of a new Species of 8aio-fly ffom 

 Albania. By W. F. KiRBY. 



Macrophya cor a. 



Macrophya Saundersi, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xx. p. 37, pi. i. 



fig. 11 (1886). 



Allied to M. Eartigi, Kirb. 



Exp. al. 20 millim., long. corp. 10 milllm. 



Female. — Black ; all the mouth-parts below the antennse, 

 except the mandibles, which are black, ivory-white ; ocelli 

 red ; occipital ridge with two small yellow spots in the middle ; 

 collar, tegulce, scutellum, cenchri, and a large spot on the 

 mesopleura yellow ; abdomen black, first segment with a nar- 

 row, whitish, terminal, transverse stripe in the middle above, 

 and segments 3 to 7 inclusive with narrow, terminal, whitish, 

 lateral stripes on the ventral surface ; cox£e black, striped with 

 pale yellow on the outside for their whole length ; trochanters 

 yellow; femora black, tipped with yellow (very slightly on 

 the hind femora) ; tibire yellow, narrowly tipped with black, 

 and the front tibige lined with black on the inner side, the apical 

 spines yellowish ; front tarsi black, yellow on the outside ; 

 intermediate tarsi black above and yellow beneath, hind tarsi 

 entirely black. 



One female in the British Museum from Albania, obtained 

 from the late Sir S. S. Saunders's collection. 



By some oversight this species was figured in the ' Journal 

 of the Linnean Society ' as M. Saundersi^ in place of another 

 new species from the same collection, described under that 

 name in Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xs. p. 34. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Homologies of the Larvcti of Comatalce. By M . J. Bakeois. 



Hitherto the larvce of Comatulae have been compared only with 

 the Holothurian larvae with several circles of cilia, the part of the 

 larva which will form the calyx being regarded as anterior, and that 

 which will form the peduncle as posterior. This theorj^ which 

 makes a Criuoid to be something comparable with a Holothurian 

 fixed by its posterior extremity narrowed into a peduncle, is con- 

 firmed, as results from my investigations, by the evolution of the 



