54 TITE entomologist's RECORD'. 



"distribution as i-egards the Palaearctic region," " food-plants," and 

 " time of appearance," if known, together with " a hst of the varieties' 

 and al)errations of the various species." It is to be hoped that in the 

 latter the aberrations described in Britain will not he omitted. The 

 only species we can test in this direction in the first part is Pajiilio' 

 niar/inon. Of the named aberratioits of this species, Tutt's Jhitiuli 

 llitttcrfiics (1896) mentions the following: ah. f!ara, Tutt, &.h. jialliila^ 

 Tutt, ab. sjiliffriiK, Hb., var. asjatira, Men., var. hnydii/alimsis, Trim. 

 (= aiiraiitiaca, Spey.), var. centralis, Btgr., ab. iratzhrii, Garb., ab, 

 <lnisiis:, Fuchs, var. hippovrateH, Feld., var. zoUcaon, Bdv., var. aliaxha. 

 Scud., var. on't/onia, Edw., var. saJiarac, Oberth., ab. idi/nifaHciataf 

 Kothke, ab. nii/cr, Reutti, var. .^ikkliiieminf Moore, ab. iiianiiitalis, 

 Robbe. The forms mentioned by Dr. Lang are : ab. Hphi/nis, Hb., 

 var. saharcw, Oberth., var. asiatica, Men., var. anrantiara, Speyer, 

 ab. nif/er, Eeutti, ab. niiirofasciata, Rothke, var. centralis, Stdgr., 

 ab. ivatzkai, Gjvrb., ab. drnsns, Fuchs, var. JtipporratA's, Feld., var, 

 IianitHcIiataiJaliis, Alph., so that seven named forms of this species that 

 were described before 1H96 are missing in the Cataloi/ue. With the 

 exception of Alpheraky's var., the remainder are those in Rlihl's- 

 ralararkthchen Gross-schiiietti'iiiwie (1892). This will be a most iiseful 

 publication if carefully compiled so as to actually bring the whole of 

 the knowledge at our disposal at the present time under the heads indi- 

 cated, within a small compass, but all a.uthors subsequent to RiihL 

 should be consulted. 



jVIi'. Meade notes / K.M.M./ the following Diptera as having been 

 found by him in Britain during the last few years : — Ihdichojius aijilu^ 

 Mgn., from Bradford, 1886, and Windermere, 1892 ; Hijhnni/ia t/risea, 

 Fin., Oxshott, Surrey, frequenting nests of Hymenoptera ; Penoinijicc 

 ]ialliccps, Ztt., from Taynuilt ; Cordi/lifra riifiiiiaua, Mgn., ? locality; 

 Nordlia ucrrosa, Mgn., from Bradford, June 14th, 1884 ; Clniiastrac 

 nii/rita, Fin., ? lociiiity ; ('Iciiiastra Ubidla, Ztt., ? Lake District; 

 Hjfdiwinfza fyatema, Mgn., Windermere, 1884 ; Hcatopliaija fmitanaluy 

 End., Windermere, 1892 ; ScatopJiai/a villipes, Ztt., Silverdale, April,. 

 1875, Taynuilt ; ScatopJiai/a hetero)mjz[na, Ztt., Windermere, July,. 

 1892 ; Fncdlia mim-aria, Ztt., ? Bowden. 



Mr. J. Edwards, Colesborne, Cheltenham, asks for records of cap- 

 tures of beetles in Norfolk, for i .-.corporation in a Supplement to his- 

 List of Xa)f(dk Colroptcra, which goes to press early in March. 



We have no doubt now that Mr. Tutt has published the first volume 

 of his work on British Li'jnd(tpt('ra that he will be offered much addi- 

 tional material and data relating to the families already dealt with.. 

 Authors, usually have uiateriid offered them when too late to be of 

 service. We would call attention to the notice by Mr. Tutt (in another 

 part of this number) of the material that he now requires aaid that 

 would be of use to him. 



;]§>RACTICAL HINTS. 



Field Work for February and March. 



liy J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 1. — The larv;e of Stilbia anoiiiala are best found at the end of 

 February by the aid of a kmtern, for they feed quite exposed a,t nighfc 

 on grass (Nonnan). 



