284 LMay, 
I captured three males and a female of this species at Aberlady, 
on June 30, 1870, by sweeping in a wood near the coast, nearly a mile 
from Aberlady, on the road to the Railway Station. In company with 
it, I caught one female lutea. 
I think it very probable that the solitary female from which the 
above description was drawn up is darker than usual on the occiput 
and abdomen. Although the measurements given would make this 
species nearly as large as stercorea, yet in appearance it only slightly 
exceeds Jutea, as it is not so robustly built. 
6. Scutellata. I have revived this name of Curtis for the species de- 
scribed in 1860 by Egger, under the name of parvula, in the 
‘Verhandl. der k. k. zool-bot. Gesellschaft,’ x, p. 343, as I consider 
Curtis’s description amply sufficient to recognise the species; his 
description is as follows:—‘“ Ochreous; antennz, excepting the 
“two basal joints, fuscous, crown of head and post-scutellum slate 
“colour ; thorax bright ochre, with a very narrow black line down 
“the back; tarsi yellowish-fuscous, dark at the extremity; wings 
“nearly colourless: 2% lines. 
“TI took a pair in Coombe Wood the 4th of June.” 
I have never taken this species myself, but have seen several which 
belonged to the late Mr. J. C. Dale, who kindly gave me a pair. 
The short, pale basal joints of the antennew, and narrow thoracic 
line, distinguish it from the other British species, nor is there any 
recognised European species with these characters in which ,the eyes of 
the male do not touch. Its synonymy, as far as I can work it out, 
will be the following :— 
Empis scutellata, Curt., B. E., 18, 12 (1824). 
testacea, W1k., Ins. Brit., Dipt., i, 96 (1851). 
parvula, Egger, Verh. z. b. Ges., x, 843 (i860); Schiner, 
Faun. Austr., Dipt., i, 107 (1862) ; Lw., Berl. ent. 
Zeits., xi, 18 and 21 (1867). 
Of Curtis’s other species described at the same place, stercorea 
and lutea seem correctly named ; ochracea is lutea; dorsalis and testacea 
are punctata, Mg. (Liw.) ; ignota and punctata are probably trigramma. 
Walker’s other species are correctly named, excepting that zgnota, 
Mg., is now called punctata, Mg. 
The Mulberries, Denmark Hill, 8.E. : 
March, 1872. 
