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DiPTERA. 



Amongst the two-winged flies there is Httle to record. 

 Mr. J. E. Colhn^ states that the fly Tetanocera rohusta, Lw., 

 is really distinct from the allied T. ferruginea, Fin., of which 

 it has been regarded as a variety, and remarks that he has 

 seen Irish specimens. He also records^ Minettia trispina, 

 Rnd., found by Colonel Yerbury at Waterville and Glenbeigh 

 in the south-west of Ireland. There is also a reference^ 

 to the capture of the distinct little fly Lophosia fasciata, 

 Meigen, at Parknasilla. 



Odonata (Dragon-flies). 



Mr. K. J. Morton^ records an interesting visitor in the 

 large African dragonfly Hemianax ephippiger, Burm., an 

 example of which was found at rest amongst grass at 

 Herbert Park by Master Albert Douglas in October, 1913. 

 Mr. Morton kindly identified the specimen, and it proves to 

 be the second recorded capture of this species in the 

 British Isles, the first was at Devonport in February, 1903. 

 Swarms of this insect visit the south of Europe from time 

 to time, and stragglers occasionally find their way north and 

 west. 



Mr. Morton^ has also been examining numbers of Scotch 

 and Irish examples of the common dragonfly Sympetrum 

 striolatum, and records what he has termed " an Atlantic 

 race " of this species characterized by the darker femora and 

 more pronounced marking of the mid-body as compared 

 with the typical English form. Although the Irish 

 specimens are not quite so strongly marked they closely 

 resemble those caught in the western parts of Scotland. A 

 similar form was described from Madeira by De Selys 

 many years ago. 



National Museum, Dublin. 



1 Entom. Mo. Mag., xlvi. (1910), p. 129. 



2 Entom. Mo. Mag., xlix. (191 3), p. 171. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., xlix. (1913), p. 171. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., 1. (1914), p. 16. 



^ Entomologist, xlvii. (1914), p. i. 



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