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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE DIPTERA: 
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO MR. PERCY: H. GRIMSHAW’S 
PRELIMINARY LIST OF MARCH AND APRIL 1898. 
Rev. A, THORNLEY, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., 
Vicar of South Leverton, Notts. 
OwING to pressure of work, Mr. Grimshaw has asked me to 
continue his preliminary lists of the Diptera of the counties of 
Nottingham and Lincoln. The naming and verification has, 
however, been done very largely by him, and he has earned the 
gratitude of the entomologists of these two counties for the 
great trouble he has taken over local collections of this neglected 
order of insects. In the county of Nottingham we have not yet 
many workers, but I am indebted to Professor J. W. Carr, of 
the University College, and some few other members of our 
Naturalists’ Society, for several good records. I have also 
recently received great assistance from our veteran dipterist, 
Dr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford, whose great kindness I would 
here publicly acknowledge. There are 45 new records for the 
county of Nottingham, thus bringing up the number of species 
recorded to 279. There is one serious error to correct. The 
examples recorded in the previous list as Arctophila mussit/ans 
Were not that species, and are now correctly named in the 
present list. New records are marked with an asterisk. Other 
species previously recorded are inserted again, because they 
have been found in new localities, or the discovery of some 
peculiarity of habit, etc., calls for further remark. It might 
seem of but small importance to record the date of the capture 
of a specimen, yet this is often a matter of the utmost moment ; 
for example, the dates of the appearance of pests, such as 
_ Hessian Fly. The asterisk * signifies a species new to the 
county. 
ae Fam. MYCETOPHILID. 
*Mycetophila cingulum Mg. One ¢, South Leverton, October — 
1897 (Thornley). : 
*Mycetophila punctata Mg. One ¢, 20th January 1898; one 
2, gth February 1898; both South Leverton (Thornley). 
*Scatopse notata L. Two ¢s, South Leverton, 13th March 
_ 1898 (Thornley). 
_ October i859. 
