S/)itsher^/en ami Bear Island. 1 U) 



A sjiecies captured in some numbers by Mr. Elton answers 

 admirably to tliis description, and is certainly NOT triaufju- 

 lifera, Zett., nor is it dorsata, Zett., as inter[)reted by 

 Ivingdahl. As Hohngren quoted liijperhorea^ Ualiem., as 

 being ^' most certainly '^ a synonym of the species he called 

 dorsata, and Mr. Elton's specimens are not dorsata^ Zett., it 

 would appear that L. lu/perborea is the correct name for this 

 S[)itsbero-en species. I have compared specimens received 

 from llingdahl of his L. frigida (described in 1920 from 

 specimens captured in the mountains of Northern Sweden) 

 with the Spitsbergen hijperhorea, and consider them identical. 

 The synonymy may therefore be quoted as follows : — 



L. hi/perhorea., Boheman (1865), S ? • 



dorsata, Ilolmgr. (1869), nee Zett., (S $. 



frigida, rviugdahl (1920), <S ? • 



? labiusa, Bohem. (18G5), $. 



? meyastoma, Bohem. (1865), p.p. 



Details of the capture of the five males and seven females 

 in the collection from Spitsbergen (all but one being taken at 

 head of Klass Billen Bay, Bruce City, shingly raised beach, 

 25-50 feet) are as follows : — 



A male on July 19tli about huts on shingle of raised 

 beach. A male and female on July 22nd flying over shingle 

 with tundra and ponds. A male on July 30th and a female 

 on Aug. 14th on hut-window pane or ledge below. A male 

 on Ang. 1st on flowers of Dryas octopetala near pond. 

 Another male on Aug. 2nd on flowers of Silene acaidis. 

 Three females on Aug. 2nd on flowers of Saxifraga hirculus 

 near pond. The above all captured by C. S. Elton. The 

 last at this locality being found by J. Walton on a poppy- 

 head on Aug. 2nd, dead, with ovipositor extended. A female 

 was also taken at about 60 feet on north side of Ice Fiord, 

 Cape Boheman, on July 12th by C. S. Elton flying over a 

 strif) of marshy land among the rocky tundra near coast. 



I And nothing to add to Ringdahl's description of frigida 

 in Ent. Tidskr. 1920, pp. 27-28, and the species can be 

 recorded with certainty from only Northern Scandinavia and 

 Spitsbergen. 



Limnopliora megastoma^ Bohem. 



Of this species there are six females in the collection, all 

 taken by C. S. Elton— four at Klass Billen Bay, Bruce City, 

 shingly raised bead), 25-50 feet, viz., one on July 22iid on 



