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var. leoniim, RoncL, being also very ccmmon, of tliis species I took over 90 specimens. 

 Ht/lemyia sfrir/oxa aucl vartala were also common, I took with these species one 

 puHuIa and some specimens of two species which appear to be jlavipennis and 

 seficrura, Hyetodesia basalts, and populi, Polietes lardaria and two or three unde- 

 termined species of Fkorbia or Chortophila were all very common. The Syrphidce 

 were very poorly represented, only four species being taken, Syritta pipiens, 

 Plafyckeirus fulciventris Bind clypeatus, and a Chrysogaster I have not determined. 

 Empis tessellata was common in a hedge alongside a stream, and I took five or six 

 species of Hilara, also two Rhamphomyia nigi-ipes. One Leptis tringaria represented 

 Leptidm, and a dozen or so Dilophus vulgaris the Bibio)iidcB. DolichopodidcB were 

 rather abundant. The species I captured were X). mtripennis, 70 specimens, pluvialis, 

 festivti^, confust'.s, signatus and oeneits, Gyninopternus assimilis, Argyra diaphana, 

 and a very small species I have not yet recognised. The few Acalypterata I have 

 had time to make out were Scatophaga stercoraria, 80, merdaria, 40 (these two 

 species swarmed everywhere and were continually filling my net), lutaria, 3, anilis?, 

 1, and two or three of what appears to be another species I do not know. Two or 

 three species of Borborus were very common (80 specimens), two species of Tephritis 

 (6), three of Chlorops (6), a very small Palloptera or allied genus (20), and two or 

 three species of Lapromyza (12), also a species which is labelled in the British 

 Museum as Heteromyza nervosa (30), but which name I look upon with some 

 suspicion, as Schiner, in his "Cat. Sys. Eur. Dip.," makes no mention of such a 

 species. Altogether, I took about 950 Diptera, and the other orders are represented 

 as follows, though it must be understood that I confined myself intentionally to the 

 collecting of Diptera, and that the other insects were taken by chance whilst 

 sweeping rushes and grass : — • 



Symenoptera (G6 specimens) : And^renida (2), Nematus (5 or 6), Chrysididce (1), 

 and the rest small Ichneiimonidce, which appeared tolerably common. 



Coleoptera (90 specimens) : Notiopliilus (1), Paederus (1), Taohyporus hypnorum, 

 and 3 other species of StaphylinidcB, Aphodius, 2 species, Telephorus, 4 species, 

 Elateridce, 4 species (17 specimens), Phyllobius argentatus (6), uniformis (30), 

 pomonce (10), Strophosomus coryli (1), Ceuthorhynchus sp. ? {\V), Apion (1), and 

 two other species of two genera of other CurculionidcB I do not know. One species 

 of Salticidce completes the list of beetles. 



Semiptera were scarce ; and in the way of Lepidoptera I saw only a few 

 P. PhlcBas and one of the skippers and a species of Tineina flying over the furze. 



A small Orthopteron and eight or ten spiders (which were most unpleasantly 

 abundant, as they spun most annoyingly during their short sojourn in my net) bring 

 the list to a close. In all, I took about 1050 specimens, not counting a 100 or so I 

 threw away as being too damaged to preserve ; of course many are too much broken 

 for keeping as cabinet specimens, but will be valuable as recording the species of this 

 locality. To any one who desires Diptera, Coleoptera, or Symenoptera, I can 

 confidently recommend Esher. — E. EErxETTi, 129, Grosvenor Park, Camberwell : 

 Ju7ie 21st, 1887. 



Earinus nitidulus, Nees. — Mr. Bridgman's note in the Magazine for this month, 

 p. 15, leads me to say that I have a bred specimen of this species, which was de- 

 termined for me in the year 1870 by the Bev. T. A. Marshall. Its cocoon agrees 



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