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Collectors' abbreviations: FCA (F. C. Adams); SA (Susan Ashurst); AUB (Austin 

 Brackenbury); AB (Allan Brindle); PJC (Peter Chandler); LC (Laurence Clemons); 

 RLC (R. L. Coe); JC (Jon Cole); JEC (James Collin collection, Oxford); CNC 

 (C. N. Colyer); DD (David Denman); FWE (F. W. Edwards); WAE (Bill Ely); SJF 

 (Steven Falk); AG (Andrew Godfrey); JJFXK (J. King); NHML (Natural History 

 Museum London); IP (Ivan Perry); AP (A. Piffard); ACP (A. C. Pont); PS 

 (P. Skidmore); RIVW (Richard Vane-Wright); SW (Susan Watson); WW (W. Wesche); 

 JW (John Wood); CY (Colonel Yerbury). 



References 



Collins, J. E. 1948. A short synopsis of the British Sapromyzidae (Diptera). Trans. R. Ent. 



Soc. Lond. 99: 225-242. 

 Godfrey, A. 1992. Exhibit at 1991 Annual Exhibition. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 5: 69. 

 Papp, L. 1979a. Contribution to the revision of the Palearctic Lauxaniidae (Diptera). Ann. 



Hist. Nat. Mus. Natn. Hung. (Budapest) 70(1978): 213-231. 

 Papp, L. 1979b. New species and taxonomical data of the Palaearctic Lauxaniidae and Carnidae 



(Diptera). Acta Zool. Acad. Sci. Hung. 27(1-2): 159-186. 

 Remm, F. & Elberg, K. 1979. Terminalia of the Lauxaniidae (Diptera) found in Estonia, Latvia 



and Lithuania. Dipteroloogilisi Uurimusi, Eesti NSV Tead. Akad. 66-117. 



SHORT COMMUNICATION 



Dolichopus caligatus Wahlb. (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) new to eastern England. — 



During the Norfolk field meeting of the Diptera Recording Schemes I visited Burgh 

 Common, Fleggburgh, (TG445130) on 5.vii.l993 in company with Jonathan Cole 

 and Keith Porter. 



Subsequently Dr Porter handed to me a male Dolichopus he had collected during 

 the visit and which I identified as D. caligatus, a species hitherto unreported in eastern 

 England. Dr Porter kindly allowed me to retain the specimen in my own collection and 

 it was exhibited at the annual meeting of the Diptera Recording Schemes in November. 



Assis Fonseca E.C.M. (1978. Diptera Orthorrhapha Brachycera. Dolichopodidae. 

 Handb. Ident. Br. Insects 9(5): 24), records the distribution of this species as limited 

 to five British localities only, all from northern Scotland, three of the records being 

 prior to 1913. 



In 1984 the species was found in four localities on the Isle of Lewis, the typical 

 habitat seeming to be the edge of peaty lochs and beside streams in peat bogs, 

 (MacGowan, I. 1986 Entomologist's Mon. Mag. 122: 213). 



The species was found at Traeth Dulas (Anglesey), in 1987 by Peter Chandler (pers. 

 comm.), and there is an undated record for Silver dale (N. Lanes.), by Harry Britten 

 who died in 1954. 



The latter record appears in The Diptera of Lancashire and Cheshire, Part 1, by 

 L. N. Kidd and A. Brindle, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna 

 Committee in 1959. This very useful reference work may have been overlooked by 

 Mr Fonseca when he was compiling the distribution details for the 'Handbook', 

 because there are similar omissions which come to light from time to time. 



The Norfolk habitat was along the side of a drainage ditch in an overgrown grazing 

 marsh; no other specimens were found on the occasion of our visit and the single 

 specimen constituted the only record during the week. — Roy Crossley, 1 The Cloisters, 

 Wilberfoss, York YQ4 5RF. 



