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feminae poslice compresso piceo, terebrae valvis verticalibus, glabris, pedibus 

 solito validioiibua distincta. — Funneu i eodra Sveiige ; hannen ej tallsynt, 

 at' hunan liar jag eudast sett ett exemplar. 



Otherwise it is known only from the environs of Dresden. My two 

 males were taken (1) by Mr. E. A. Newberj at Claeton-on-Sea in Essex 

 dm-ing Jmie, 1913, and (2) b}Miiyself while sweeping low-marsh herbage 

 on the banks of the River Lark, just outside the town of Mildenhall in 

 N.W. Suffolk, on 14:th June, 1S99 {cf. note thereon, Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1899, p. 190). 



All the species of the Liophro7iinae are said to be of rare occuiTence, 

 both here and u^^on the Continent, but this is doubtless owdng to nothing 

 but our ignorance of their habits. The Palaearctic fauna comprises only 

 seven species, and there are one or tw'O more in Canada. Of the three 

 genera, Liopliron alone possesses mesonotal notauli ; and Centistes Hal. 

 has the fii'st cubital discreted. from the fii'st discoidal cell, whereas they 

 are confluent in Syrrhizus^ which has been found by no one but 

 Dr. Edward Capron in SmTey. The single exception to this general 

 rarity is Centistes lucidator Nees (Hym. Mon. i, 183-1, p. oO), who 

 took the male as late as October ; this is found over noi-th-west Europe 

 and extends to Russia. My little group showed a couple taken by 

 Wilson Saunders at Greenings in Surrey in 1872, and one that 1 found 

 on a reed in Wicken Fen, Cambs, on 16th June, 1908, far from fungi. 

 The three remaining specimens in my collection proved to be a coujdIc 

 of Lioph'on muricatus Hal., captured by Mr. E. A. Newbery at 

 Trefriw during August 1903, and by myself while sweeping at Hurst- 

 hill in the New Forest on 11th July, 1909 ; and a single $ of L. ater 

 Nees {lih. cit. p. 45) that I found in the marshes of the Shannon to the 

 south of Limerick on loth June, 1913. The last species was originally 

 caught in cop. during the summer of 181-4 in a Franconian garden. 

 Marshall possessed only four females from St. Albans and Nunton in 

 Wiltshire ; in fact, so late as 1889 his collection comprised no more than 

 fourteen specimens of the Avhole genus. Bignell, after long years of 

 collecting in South Devon, records (Trans. Devon. Ass. Adv. So. xxxiii, 

 1901, p. 27) a single specimen of X. ater from Plym Bridge on 

 25th September. 



Monk Soham House, 



Framlingham, Suffolk, 



January 1918. 



