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the Isle of Man, once on Salix repens, in the middle of May, in 

 Tuddenham Fen. Nearly all our thirteen Pachynemati are 

 common, but especially so is P. trisignatus, Fst. {caprea, Cam.), 

 which turns up everywhere from April 18th to August 27th in 

 Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hants, and Kent on 

 sallow, though the similar P. turgidus has only occurred to me 

 once, in a very marshy alder-carr near Southwold, at the begin- 

 ning of June, 1905. P. clitellatus is probably much mixed with 

 the preceding ; I have found it only in the wettest parts of 

 Tuddenham Fen and Barnby Broad in early May and mid- 

 August, whereas P. xanthocarpus has alone appeared in Bentley 

 Woods in the end of June, 1903, and a somewhat doubtful 

 P. apicalis on birch in the same locality at the end of May, 1902. 

 P. albipennis is abroad in August ; I took a female at the begin- 

 ning of the month at Ipswich in 1895, and a male at the end at 

 Metton, near Cromer, in 1903. P. vagus is common in April, 

 May, and June throughout Suffolk, but I have only twice found 

 P. obductus in Tuddenham Fen in May and August on Salix 

 repens; P. rumicis did not appear to me till 1905, but I have 

 taken it each subsequent year in June at Dunwich, Eeydon, and 

 Monks Soham, in Suffolk, and in Norton Wood, in Isle of Wight. 

 If one except P.fidvipes and P. crassicornis, the species of Pi-isti- 

 phora are by no means common, at least in the eastern counties ; 

 the former, however, is abundant in boggy places in Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, and the Isle of Wight from the middle of June to the end 

 of August, and the latter, which is hardly less prevalent, has 

 occurred to me in Burwell Fen in Cambridgeshire, at Felixstowe, 

 Brandon, Tuddenham, Bentley, and Sudbury in Suffolk, as well 

 as at Kyde and Eookley in Isle of Wight. P. palUdiventris is 

 almost confined with us to Tuddenham Fen, where both sexes 

 are not infrequent throughout the summer on the dwarf sallow ; 

 and in August, 1901, I took a couple of P. hchda on flowers of 

 Angelica at Matley Bog and Bank, in the New Forest, but of the 

 rest I possess but single specimens. A male P. ruficornis was 

 swept from reeds early in May, 1901, at Bramford, near Ipswich ; 

 a somewhat doubtful female P. suhUfida was captured at Alde- 

 burgh by Mr. Tuck early in the following September ; I secured 

 a female P. pallidipcs in the marshes near Southwold on June 

 4th, 1905, and a male P. ivestoni, Bridg., which I do not find 

 synonymised by Morice, in Tuddenham Fen on June 19th, 1901 ; 

 and, lastly, P. quercus is instanced by a male from Southampton, 

 given me by the Eev. H. S. Gorham. Lygceonematus, the last 

 genus of the Nematides, is very poorly represented in Suffolk 

 (and I have taken none elsewhere) by one male L. comprcssicornis 

 on alder in Barnby Broad, on August 11th, 1898, and a single 

 female L. laricis in Bentley Woods on May 19th, 1903. 



The second subfamily, the Hoplocampides, consists of eighteen 

 species, among which Phyllotoma vagans was swept from herbage 



