1898.] 137 



Diptera from SuffolJc, Aberdeen, ^'c. — During the last two or three years 

 a good many Diptera have passed through my hands. They have been prin- 

 cipally received from Mr. Claude Morley of Ipswich, Mr. W. H. Tuck of Tostock, 

 Bury St. Edmunds, Mr. J. Mearns of Aberdeen, and Messrs. W. W. Esam and L. 

 B. Hall of Hastings. It may be of interest to enumerate some of the more con- 

 spicuous species. 



LiMNOBiD^. — Phalacrocera replicata, L., both imago and larvge from Aberdeen j 

 the larva is covered with hairs, and feeds among submerged mosses {cf. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1897). 



Stbatiomyid^ — Pachygaster ater, Pz., Ipswich ; Chrysonotus hipunctatus, 

 Scop., and Actina tibialis, Mg., Ipswich and Tostock ; Sargus Jlavipes, Mg., Tostock. 



Tabanid^. — Hcematopcta crassicornis, Whlbg., ^ & 2, and Therioplectes 

 montanus, Mg., (^ & $ , Aberdeen. 



Asi-LIDM.—Laphria Jlava, L., (J & ? , taken near Banchory, September, 1889, 

 these specimens are now in the British Museum ; Epitriptus cingulatus, F., Ipswich 

 and Aberdeen. 



BoMBTiiD^. — The beautiful Anthrax fenestrata. Fin., Chobham. 



Stephid^. — Syrphus punetulatus, Verr., Aberdeen ; S. tricinctus. Fin., Win- 

 ehelsea, Woking and Aberdeen ; XantJio gramma ornatum, Mg., Tostock ; BracTiyopa 

 hicolor. Fin., Gruestling ; Sericomyia borealis. Fin., bred, and S. lappona, L., Aber- 

 deen ; Helophilus transfugus, L., Southwold and Winchelsea ; H. vittatus, Mg., 

 Winchelsea; Criorrhina berberina,F.,GrneBtling; C.Jloccosa,'M.g., Tostock; Pocota 

 apiformis, Schrk., this rare and handsome insect was bred by Mr. W. H. Tuck from 

 the nest of a Bombus, the larva is said to feed on decayed wood ; Xylota lenta, Mg., 

 Southwick, Hants ; Eumerus lunulatus, Mg., Ipswich, Tostock and Gruernsey. 



CoNOPlD^. — Conops ceriiformis, Mg., ^ & ? , Ipswich ; Oncomyia atra, F., 

 Ipswich, Tostock and Guernsey. 



CEsTEiD^. — Cephenomyia auribarbis, Mg., larvae from Aberdeen, imago from 

 Mr. Percy Grrimshaw of Edinburgh. 



Tachinid^. — Gonia ornata, Mg., Ipswich and Tostock ; Chetolyga quadripus- 

 tulata, F., Guernsey. 



CoEDTLTJEiD.ffi. — Ceratinostoma ostiorum, Hal., Ipswich. 



SciOMTZiD^. — Lucinafasciata, Mg., Guernsey ; Elgiva dorsalis, F.,E. cucularia, 

 L., and Tetanocera punctata, F., Winchelsea, the latter species also from Ipswich; 

 Scioviyza Schoenherri, Fin., Ipswich, Pevensey and Winchelsea. 



PsiLiD^. — Chyliza atriseta, Mg., Ipswich. 



OETALiDiE. — Ulidia erythrophthalma, Mg., Winchelsea; Chrysomyza deman- 

 data, F., Ipswich and Tostock. 



TEYPETiDiE. — Gonyglossum Wiedemanni,M.g.,\'(i&'w\ch; Carphotricha guttularis, 

 Mg., St. Leonards ; Tephritis forniosa, Lw., Ipswich. 



LoNCH^iD.1;. — Palloptera ustulata. Fin., and Toxoneura muUehris, Harris, 

 Tostock. 



HETEEONEUBlD.ffi. — Trigonometopus frontalis, Mg., Ipswich. 



Chloeopid^. — Platycephala planifrons, F., Ipswich and Benacre Broad. 



These last two interesting species, though figured by Curtis in his " British 

 Entomology," are not described by Walker in the " Insecta Britannica Diptera," 

 altliougli figures (copied from Curtis) of the heads and otlier details arc given in 



