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however, winged males are sometimes met with in woods inhabited 
by roe-deer ; these differ considerably in appearance from the apterous 
males found in company with females among the hair of the host, 
being paler in colour and more slender in the abdomen, while the 
males that have lost their wings are more like the females, and are 
darker in colour with a broader and stouter abdomen. Winged 
individuals of both sexes have been caught flying round a dead roe, 
but the females all shed their wings in dying; the Museum collection 
contains a number of males with wings, but not a single winged 
female. 
With two exceptions all the specimens of this species in the 
Museum series were taken on roe deer at Whatcombe, Blandford 
Dorset, between September 19th and October 26th, 1895, and 
presented by the late Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell. Besides these 
there are also a male from the same locality, taken on October 17th, 
1895, on a horse after passing through hazel-bushes in Houghton 
Wood, which is frequented by roe deer (J. C. Mansel-Pleydell) ; and 
another male from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, caught by Colonel 
Yerbury, on October nth, 1897, on his own neck, after passing 
through Stoke Edith Park, in which there are fallow deer. A 
winged male figured by Curtis (' British Entomology,' 1824) under 
the name Hcemobora pallipes, is said to have been taken in the 
New Forest, Hants, about the middle of September, 1822, on the 
clothes of a Mr. J. Chant. 
Lipoptcna cervi doubtless occurs throughout Europe, and closely 
allied species are found in other parts of the world. In 
February, 190 1, a specimen of L. cervi was taken by Mr. P. S. 
Stammwitz, near Johannesburg, Transvaal, under circumstances 
pointing to the possibility that it had been introduced into South Africa 
with remounts during the South African War. 
