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case like this to mention a Tephritis sp ?, rather than repute a 

 new species to Britain. 



Palloptera parallela. Mr. Brunetti gives no author's name to 

 this species, and I cannot trace that it has ever been, described ; 

 in fact, the name is quite a new one to me. 



As to the three species of Limosina said to be not mentioned 

 in my list, I may say that L. pusilla, Mg. = L. acutangula, Zett. ; 

 L. fenestralis, Fin., is in the list of reputed species ; while 

 L. cilifera, Bond., is an unsatisfactory Italian species, at present 

 unconfirmed by any subsequent writer. 



Now that I am writing I may enumerate a few unrecorded 

 British Diptera, and corrections to my list : — 



Cecidomyia alpina, F. Lw. C. filicina, Kief ( = C. pteridis, 

 Mull.). C.foliorum, Lw. C. tubicola, Kief. 



Diplosis betidina, Kief. D.fraxinella, Meade. 



Schizomyia (Kief) galiorum, Kief. 



Sciaraflavipes, Pz. ; confirmed. 



Cordyla crassicornis, Mg. To be omitted and added to List of 

 Beputed Species : the ? crassicornis, Curt., seems to belong to a 

 new genus near Anatella, according to a specimen in Mr. 0. W. 

 Dale's collection. 



Leia elegans, Winn. ; in Mr. C W. Dale's collection. 



Diadocidia ferruginosa, Mg. ; confirmed. 



Chironomus flexilis, L. ; confirmed : near Bydal. C. nigri- 

 maiius, Staeg. ; confirmed. C. nubeculosus, Mg. ; confirmed. C. 

 fuscipennis, Mg. ; confirmed. C. biannulatus, Stseg. 



T any pus guttipennis, V. d. Wulp; in The Broads. T. pliatta, 

 Egg. ; in myriads at Slapton Lea. 



Ceratopogon bipunctatus, L. ; confirmed. C. rarius, Winn. ; 

 confirmed: common in my house. C.femoratus,¥.; confirmed. 



We must be very rich in Chironomidse in England; I possess 

 (after excluding, as far as known, all above 12 specimens of a 

 species) over 2500 specimens, comprising, I believe, at least 270 

 species, but the ascertaining the correct names is very difficult ; 

 for instance, Stagger described, in 1840, a Chironomus nigrimanus 

 from Denmark, which he said was very rare in May and June ; 

 in 1850 Zetterstedt had never seen this species, but in 1859 he 

 obtained one female, and says Botts had caught both sexes in the 

 spring at Bingsjon ; Van der Wulp described, in 1859, two males 

 caught at The Hague, which he says tolerably, but not thoroughly, 

 agree with Stseger's description ; in 1877 he notes that Wttewaall 

 had caught it at Utrecht. These are all the references to the 

 species with which I am acquainted, except Walker's description 

 in Ins. Brit. Dipt. iii. 172, which, according to the table on 

 p. 153, must refer to a very different species. Now, I have had 

 under my eyes forty or fifty males of one species, probably that 



