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 DEXID^E. 



Thelaira leucozona Pz. Lane. S. : Rixton Firs, 27th July 



1898, three. 



Dexia canina F. Chesh.: Abundant on the bracken in King's 

 Wood, Delamere, 18th July 1898. This is the only occasion 

 on which I have seen it. 



SARCOPHAGID^E. 

 Sarcophaga carnaria L. Lane. S. : Woolston Moss, July 



1897, common. 



muscim:. 



Lucilia cornicina F. Lane. S.: Rixton Firs, June 1897, one. 



Lucilia csesar L. Both Counties : Abundant all the season 

 wherever I have collected. 



Lucilia sylvarum Mg-n. Chesh.: Borders of wood near 

 Walton Arches, July 1896, one. 



Calliphora groenlandica Ztt. Lane. S. : Common in Warring- 

 ton, July 1897. 



Musca domestica L. Both Counties : Common in houses, 

 occasionally becoming an intolerable nuisance. 



Musca corvina F. Chesh: Whitley, 31st July 1898, common. 



Mesembrina meridiana L. Chesh.: Frodsham, June 1896. 

 King's Wood, Delamere, 18th July 1898, along the sides of 

 a small brook ; almost every tree had five or six specimens 

 of this large and handsome fly resting on its trunk. 



Graphomyia maculata Scop. Chesh.: Hatchmere, 3rd Sept. 



1899, one. 



Morellia hortorum Fin. Lane. S. : Rixton Firs, 27th July 



1898, several of both sexes. This fly very closely resembles 

 Polietes albolineata Fin., which occurs with it on the 

 leaves of birch and other trees. It is at once separated, 

 on examination, by the angular termination of the fourth 

 longitudinal vein. 



Stomoxys caicitrans L. Lane. S.: Abundant on the doors 

 and outside walls of houses in Warrington in October 1899. 



ANTHQMYID^E. 



Polietes lardaria F. Lane. S. : Rixton Firs, on 5th September 

 [899, was simply alive with multitudes of this species. 

 Chesh.: A wood at Hatchmere, on 3rd September 1899, 

 abundant. I saw odd specimens at both localities on earlier 

 dates. 



1900 May 1. 



