INSECTS 



DIPTERA 



Flies 



In consequence of the paucity of collectors of this order, especially 

 in Kent, I am only able to supply the following meagre list of Diptera. 

 It contains the names of such species as are known by me to occur in 

 Kent, supplemented by the names of species whose occurrence in the 

 county has been recorded by Walker, Curtis, Haliday, Verrall and 

 others. 



A large number of species are recorded by Verrall in his British 

 Flies, vol. viii., and in his ' List of British Tipulidse' {E.M.M. vol. xxiii. 

 1888), with indefinite localities, such as ' Penzance to Tongue.' Probably 

 all these occur in the county, but they have not been collated where a 

 definite Kentish locality cannot be assigned to them. 



Many common species, e.g. Ciilex pipiens, Musca domestica, etc., etc., 

 must occur, but as they have not been recorded, nor are specimens of 

 them in local collections, they are omitted. 



A list of Diptera taken in the neighbourhood of Maidstone has been 

 sent me by Mr. H. Elgar, and thirty-one species therefrom have been 

 added to my list. Mr. Elgar has also sent many additional localities, 

 which are also enumerated, for species already recorded. 



After all the total number of species for the county does not reach 

 350, a poor proportion out of the 2,800 named in Verrall's 'List' 

 ed. 2. 



PULICIDit 



Hystrichopsylla talps, Curt. Halstow 

 Cecidomyid^ 



Cecidomyia reaumurii, Brein. JVye (galls 

 only) 



Diplosis botularia, Wim. Kent (Theobald) 

 Mycetophilid^ 



Empheria pictipennis, Hal. Kent (Walker) 



Platyura marginata,* Mg. Barming {E\g2.r) 



Macrocera vittata, Mg. Bearsted 



— stigma, Curtis. „ 



BlBIONID^ 



Scatopsc notata, Linn. Maidstone 



— incompleta, Verr. Abbey Wood 



— brevicornis, Mg. Folkestone 

 Dilophus febrilis, Linn. „ 

 Bibio venosus, Mg. Birch Wood, ? St. 



Mary Cray (Curtis) 



— laniger, Mg. Folkestone 



— varipes, Mg. Bexley (Haliday) 



— marci, Linn. Common (Elgar) 



— hortulanus, Linn. „ „ 



— johannis, Linn. Folkestone 



— sp. inc near hortulanus. Bearsted 



Note. — Of species marked with an * either the 

 record is doubtful, or doubts exist as to whether 

 the locality is within the boundaries of the county. 



—J. w. y. 

 I 209 



Chironomid^ 



Chironomus viridis, Mcq. Folkestone 

 Ceratopogon pictus, Mg. Kent (Walker) 



CULICID^ 



Anopheles maculipennis, Mg. Wye 



— nigripes, Stasg. Wye (Nuttall) 

 Culex diversus, Theob. Tunbridge Wells 



(Theobald) 



— dorsalis, Mg. Lewisham 



TiPULIDit 



Ptychoptera contaminata, Linn. Graves- 

 end 



— paludosa, Mg. Bearsted 

 Limnobia nubeculosa, Mg. Folkestone 



— analis, Mg., Verr. Plumstead 



— nigropunctata, Schum. Darenth 



— macrostigma, Schum. Tunbridge Wells 

 Dicranomyia sericata, Mg. Kent (Verrall, 



E.M.M. vol. xxiii.) 



— pilipennis,Egg. KentiVtrtzW, E.M.M. 

 vol. xxiii.) 



Rhamphidia longirostris, Mg. Tunbridge 



Wells 

 Molophilus appendiculatus, Staeg. Kent 



(Verrall, E.M.M. vol. xxiii.) 



— propinquus, Egg. Kent (Verrall, 

 E.M.M. vol.^xxiii.) 



Erioptera macropthalma, Lw. Tunbridge 

 Wells 



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