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that minutella was one of the types of Borhhausenia, although this 

 was indicated in the case of atrella. We are, therefore, at liberty 

 to select the type ; atrella, Hb. (being a doubtful species, and if cor- 

 rectly identified by Haworth, not agreeing with the other two species, 

 which are isotypical), should be rejected, and minutella, L., a common 

 form, in structure thoroughly represeiitative of a large section of those 

 prevalent species with which it has long been associated, should be 

 adopted as the type of Sorhhausenia, under which title Batia, Steph., 

 and Ghrysia, Mill., will lie dormant. 



(To he continued). 



ON CERTAIN RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH MUSCIDM 

 {TACHINIDM OF VERRALL'S LIST). 



BT EENEST E. AUSTEN. 



The following remarks are published in no spirit of captious 

 criticism, but in the hope that they may prove of some slight assist- 

 ance to those who are engaged in the difficult task of unravelling the 

 identities of our British Tachinince—a. group which, in spite of the 

 labours of Erauer and von Bergenstamm, still presents so many 

 difficulties to the careful student. 



Phoeoceea inceeta, Meade. 

 Of this species — which was lately described in this Magazine (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 ser. 2, vol. viii, 1897, pp. 223, 224), from three specimens collected by Mr. C. Morley, 

 of Ipswich, and another example in the collection of the Museum of Science and 

 Art, Edinburgh — the British Museum has just received a couple of co-types, through 

 the courtesy of Mr. Morley. A careful examination of the specimens in question, 

 which agree very well with the description, enables me to say positively that they 

 have nothing to do either with Phorocera, or with the " sub-gen." CampylochcEta, Rond., 

 to which the author assigns them. Mr. Meade writes : " facial setae . . extending 

 upwards to near the end of the frontal bristles ;" this means that the projecting 

 ridge on each side of the sunken epistoraa bears a fringe of setse, commencing at the 

 long vibrissse on the facial angles below and terminating at about the level of the 

 base of the third joint of the antennse ; in other words it is the condition termed 

 by Schiner : " Untergesicht an den Seitenrandern . . mit . . Borsten 

 bewimpert ;" and by Brauer (Verb, z -b. G-es. Wien, Jahrg., 1893, p. 472) : " Mund- 

 borsten bis oben aufsteigend." But on examining a specimen of "Phorocera" 

 incerta from in front, so that we look straight into the cavity of the epistoma, it is 

 seen that the setae to which Meade refers are not on the facial ridges at all, but on 

 the face itself, i. e., the space on each side between the facial ridge and the eye. 

 The real facial or oral setae {Mundborsten) extend no higher than the facial angles, 

 and consist of four or five small and slender bristles immediately above the vibrissa 



