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Chlorops tzniopus Mg. Alford, Well, Willoughby-with- 
Sloothby, larve, pupe and imagos bred, June-July 1889 
(Mason, 1896) 
Fam. BORBORIDAE. 
Borborus cee Mcq. No localities given for Linc. N. 
inc. S.: Kirton Marsh, Boston, 26th August 1897 
(Thoraley). 
Borborus equinus Fen. Near Louth (Kew, 1888). 
Fam. PHORIDAS. 
Phora rufipes Mg. Alford, January 1887 (Mason, 1896). 
‘am. HIPPOBOSCIDAE.” _ 
Hippobosca equina L. Well, 8th September 1886 (Kew, 
1888). 
Ss 
Melophagus ovinus L. Great Cotes (John Cordeaux, Ent., 
June 1871, p. 307). 
NOTES. 
Spilogaster protuberans Ztt. A fine series of a rare and very 
distinct species. Identified by Mr. R. H. Meade. 
Lispa crassiuscula Lw. Only recorded as British by Mr. G. H- 
Verrall in 1894 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1894, p. 143). 
ers gracilis oe This interesting species has not hitherto, 
o far as I am aware, been recorded as British. 
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NOTE— DIPTERA. 
Audisiene. to ~ List of Notti nghamshire Diptera.—I am able 
make ant additions to the splendid list of ‘Nottinghamshire 
Diptera published i in the March and A ef numbers of ‘The Naturalist. 
These are Bombylius major and Asilus igen Me tesee f the former I too 
severr specimens last month in a wood at Winkburn, Nottinghamshire 
and I possess specimens of Sard latter ipdeies taken at Bul bwell Fo rest, 
Notti ainda, some years ago.—J. W. Carr, Nottingham, 2nd May 1898. __- 
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indebted to our friend, Mr. A. H. Pawson, FLL. S., for a reprint 
We 
of an shisaatioee little paper of his on ‘Ice Reservoirs, based o shah’ iss 
observations, an excerpt from the ‘Glacialist's Magazine’ for Deckuiber 
ee an 
From the Botanical Society of America we have received a reprint of 
Suesgates The Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Angiosperms,’ by | 
CH E. Bessty, Ph.D., of aps 5 ee: being his _ 
pisos hare latipes delivered in August 1897, a onto. ita ge ace 
Naturalist, 
