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Homalomyine : Dorso-central bristles 2 in front of suture, 

 3 behind ; anal vein short, axillary curved and continued beyond 

 end of anal ; arista nearly always almost bare ; eyes bare. Small 

 or rather small species ; abdomen shortish^ broad, flat, and with 

 characteristic triangular dorsal spots or modifications thereof. 



CffiNosiNiE : Dorso-central bristles 1 in front of suture, 3 behind ; 

 anal and axillary veins straight and abbreviated ; eyes of male 

 never nearly touching, always bare ; abdomen tubular, usually 

 spotted. -■■:. 



In January, 1888, Mik called my attention to a distinction in 

 the claws of Mydseinse and Homalomyinse. 



Polietes hirticrura, Meade ; confirmed : Kilmarnock. 



I need not repeat Meade's additions, unless by way of 

 criticism, as he has been kind enough to send me nearly all for 

 examination. 



Limnophora albifrons, Bond. ; the specimen was Hydrophoria 

 socia, Fin., ? . 



Hydrotcea parva, Meade ; I think this is H. glabricula, Fin., 

 which was previously reputed. 



Pegomyia hyoscyami, Pz., and Wintliemi, Mg., may be erased, 

 the exponents being very unsatisfactory. 



Homalomyia triangulifera, Meade (nee Kond.), is H. lepida, 

 W., which by some extraordinary chance I omitted from my 

 list, but noticed the omission just in time to include, it among 

 the reputed. H. nigrisquama, Meade ; confirmed. 



Ccenosia scrupidosa, Zett. ; the specimens belong to Spilo- 

 gaster, as at present constituted. C. picti'pennis, Lw. ; Meigen's 

 name of costata is more generally accepted, even though he 

 mistakenly called it a Sapromyza. 



Pteropcecila lamed, Schrk. In including this species in my 

 list I fell into the same error into which Haliday had fallen more 

 than fifty years before. Our British species is the little-known 

 Toxoneura muliebris, Harr. (fasciata, Mcq.). Consequently 

 P. lamed should be excised from my list, and T. muliebris added 

 from the reputed list and placed next to Palloptera under the 

 Lonchseidas. 



Oscinis rapta, Hal. ; this should be added to the British 

 species, and 0. rapta, Mcq., excluded from the reputed species. 



These are a few notes upon species concerning which I have 

 arrived at some definite conclusion ; but there are hundreds of 

 others upon which I am in doubt. When I published my list 

 I thought I fairly understood the genus Tanypus with 19 species ; 

 I now think I possess 40 species. In Simidium I admitted two 

 species ; I now think I possess about ten species. A vast amount 

 of work remains yet to be done, but it had better be done with 

 caution. 



Sussex Lodge, Newmarket. 



