20 [January, 



wing during July and August and until the first days of September, and that he has 

 found the full-grown larvae in the throat of the roe from May to August. The fly 

 which, lite the rest of its congeners, is thickly clothed with hair, measures 15 mm. 

 (7 lines) in length. In the male the hair on the thorax in front of the transverse 

 suture is of a bright greyish-ochre ; behind the suture it is deep blue-black ; the 

 abdomen is clothed with bright yellow hair, with an orange-yellow tuft on each side 

 of the segments from the second to the fourth, the tufts on the third enclosing a 

 small black-haired spot. The female is so far similar to the male that it cannot be 

 mistaken, though considerable differences are seen on a close examination ; the hairy 

 coat is less brightly coloured, and that on the abdomen is sparser ; owing to the 

 hair being concentrated more on the anterior halves of the segments, the abdomen 

 appears to be banded. 



.Pharyngomyia picta, Mg. — This species, of whicTi the larvse, like 

 those o£ the preceding, are found in the throat of the red deer 

 {Cervus elaphus, L.), though an old established member of our British 

 List, has not been heard of for half a century, and it is quite time that 

 a record was published of the capture of another British specimen. 

 Figured by Curtis (under its original name, CEsfrus pictus) in his 

 "British Entomology," pi. 106 (182G), where it is stated that a single 

 specimen was " taken by Mr. Samouelle in the New Forest at Burley 

 Heath, 12th of June, 1823," its larvse were afterwards made the 

 subject of a " Note on the Bot infesting the Stag," by Bracy Clark, 

 published in the " Zoologist," vol. v, 1847, pp. 1569, 1570, and re- 

 printed subsequently in Clark's " Addenda, 1848."* Clark refers to 

 the specimen taken by Samouelle, and says that a subsequent capture 

 was made in the same place by "our very worthy friend and excellent 

 entomologist, J. C. Dale, Esq."t ' 



Since the date of Clark's observations nothing more has been 

 heard of the species in this country. So far as British entomologists 

 are concerned, it seems to have remained sunk in oblivion for the last 

 fifty years, and to have become, so to speak, one of those nomina nuda 

 of the List, of which Ephippium thoracicum, Ltr., Doros conopseus, 

 Fabr., and others are conspicuous examples. Nowadays red deer are 

 doubtless much less numerous in the New Forest than they were in 

 the first half of this century, and this may well account for the dis- 

 appearance of Pharyngomyia picta from that locality. In order, if 



* Of. Austen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. xvi, 1895, pp. 150, 151. The "Note "as 

 originally published was headed with figures of the larva and pupa i described as those of " (Estrus 

 cervt) " ; the reprint in the " Addenda, 1848," has different figures of the larva and pupa, and 

 also a woodcut of the imago. 



t The specimen alluded to is still in existence, and in the collection of Mr. C. W. Dale, to 

 whom I am indebted for the following extract from his father's entomological diary, giving the 

 date and exact locality of its capture : — 



"1835. July 31st. Stoney Cross, Hants. I think I saw 2 (Esfj'ws picius settle on a fern, and 

 I struck at and missed them : looked like bees. 



" August 1st. Lyndhurst. (Estrus ^nctiis on dried lea^res. Captured this one." 



