MU. C. UEID ON NORFOLK AMBER. 
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NORFOLK AMRER. 
Ry Clement Reid. 
Rend March, 1886. 
Since tlio coiiniiunication of iny, last note on Norfolk Amber, 
I liiivo made another visit to Cromer. Few fine spocimen-s have 
recently been found; but I^fr. J. Fo.\, of Jetty Street, placed in 
my hands three pieces containing flics. These were obtained, 
among others, in the rough state, from fishermen, but the exact 
locality of each specimen is unknown. However, there is no 
reason to think that they are not genuine Norfolk specimens, 
for the flies wore not discovered till the Amber was in Mr. Fox’s 
possession, and was being polished. 
Like the previously discovered specimens of Diptera, these were 
sent to ^fr. C. If. Verrall, who "writes that: — “The .specimen 
in the brooch is a Plotijura, of Avhich Loew knew sixteen Amber 
species. The characteristics of this one are the long antenna? with 
long narrow joints, the yellow wings with hainj veiiiA, the upper 
fork of the second vein ending in the costa, not very abruptly ; 
the thorax seems to be blackish brown, the pleurie light brown, 
but considerably greenish above and on sides of thora.x (? through 
some foreign coloring matter) ; the abdomen seems also to have 
some metallic colour ; both thorax and abdomen bear numerous 
blackish bristly hairs ; the halteres, legs, and coxae, are light 
brown ; the femora darker beneath ; the front femora bear bristles 
beneath, rather stronger than the other usual small bristles ; 
tlio coxae bear numerous hairy bristles ; the tibiie have one light 
brown spur at the tip ; the tarsi are rather longer than the tibiae, 
the basal joint being a little shorter than the other four together, 
and bearing beneath middle pair about six small well-separated 
bri.sflcs (? in pairs).” 
“ The other Phdijurn ’’ [in the unpierced bead] “ is a female. 
