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 INSECTS Lauxanla Elisae, L. aenea, and, at Oulton Broad by Tuck, L. hyalinata. Balioptera tripunctata is abundant, though not so B. comhlnata ; Opomyza germinationis and O. florum are of general distribu- tion ; and at Shotley I have found Pelethophila lutea and P. flava at Tostock. The long-legged Sepsidae are somewhat fiilly represented, the typical genus comprising Sepiis pectoralU at Felixstowe, 5. nigripes, violacea, cynipua, and S. pUlpei at Newmarket ; Nemopoda cylindrica and N. stercoraria are common about Ipswich ; Henicita Leachi and H. annulipes are recorded ; and at Tuddenham Verrall has taken Mycetaulus hipunctatus in September. The three Themira, putris, superha, and minor occur in Newmarket, with Saltella sphondylii and S. nigripes. The cheese-mites, Piophila casei, with five more of the same genus, are of course abundant, and the pretty Madiza glabra occurs at Ipswich and Southwold. Six Geomyzidae are noticed in Anthomyz.a fiavipes at Felixstowe, and A. gracilis in Newmarket ; Geomyz.a obscurella has occurred to me at Aldetsurgh, Diastata nigripennis at Foxhall with D. unipunctata, and D. punctum at Kessingland. The Ephydridae have been recently much augmented by Mr. Verrall's Suffolk captures, and we now boast of Notiphila venosa and N. dorsata from Aldeburgh, with five common kinds of the genus ; Trimerina madixans from Bentley Woods in the winter ; Psilopa hucostoma and nitidula, with Hydrdlia griseola, commonly. Collin has found Discocerina obscurella at Tuddenham and Philhygria stictica at New- market. Hyadina scutellata and H. guttata occur, and Paget took Ochthera mantis at Lound Heath ; two Parhydrae are common with Ephydra riparia and Caenia palustris ; but the curious tiny Scatellae, of which we have four kinds, are never in great profusion. Among the Drosophilidae, Scaptomyza graminum and Aulacigaster rufitarsis are rare, though few of our six species of Drosophila are un- common. The handsome little Chloropidae have received considerable attention from Mr. Collin, so our list comprises Lipara lucens, common by the River Lark, Platycephala planifrons in profusion in all the Broads, four kinds of Meromyxa, with Center cerceris and C. myopinus among reeds. Anthracophaga strigula has occurred to me at Bawdsey, Diplotoxa messoria at Beccles, and D. inconstans at Claydon Bridge ; our list is augmented by seven species of Chlorops, two of Chloropisca, and five Oscinus, which, with the common Elachyptera cornuta and abortive E. brachyptera, conclude this family. Cacoxenus indagator, from Newmarket, represents the Milichidae ; Agromyza lutea at Claydon and Schoenomyza litorella at Foxhall, the next family ; Phytomyza elegans from Tuddenham and Chromatomyia affinis, a third ; while the fourth, the Astiadae, adds only Astia amoena, which abounds in bracken refuse in the winter. It becomes necessary to somewhat fully deal with our Borboridae since no other county has so good a list, thanks to the assiduity of Mr. Collin. The typical genus Borborus has eleven representatives, of which B. nitidus has occcurred to me at Bram- ford, B. pedestris at Ipswich and Brandon, B. longipennis on my study window, and B. geniculatus in the Bentley Woods ; Collin has also found B. suillorum at Bradley, with B. Roseri, B. sordidus in a Newmarket paddock, and he described B. notabilis from Bradley." Sphaerocera monilis, pusilla, vaporariorum, scabricula^ and Collin's new 8. eximia are all found at Newmarket ; while I have seen S. subsultans at Claydon. Of the extensive genus Limosina we have twenty-seven kinds, among which I have taken L. frontinalis at Bentley, L. sylvatica at Felixstowe,/,, ochripes at Ipswich, with Z,. scutellaris, L. erratica at Freston, L. spinipennis at Felixstowe, and L. roralis at Brandon ; all the remainder have fallen to Collin's net, and they comprise L. ferrugata, lutosa, limosa, vagarts, lugubris, melania, atomus, acutangula, fungicola, vitripennis, coxata, pumilio, clunipes, hcteroneura, nigerrima, crassimana, fuscipennis, and minutissima, together with his two new species, H. Halidayi and L. mirabilisy from Newmarket." In the Phoridae we are not so good, and only possess Conicera similis, Trineura aterrima, six species of Phora including Verrall's new P. formicarum}^ The last family, the Hippoboscidae is represented by four kinds : Ornithomyia avicularia which Tuck took at Tostock in 1897 ; Stenopteryx hirundinis, captured by Dr. Wood at Woolpit ; Oxypterum pallidum, recorded by Paget from the Yarmouth district, and still a very rare fly ; and the Slieep-fiy, Melo- phagus ovis, which has occurred to the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield at Great Glemham and to me ;it Monk Soham. HEMIPTERA Bugs HETEROPTERA Concerning the Heteroptera of Suffolk, little or nothing has until quite recently been pub- lished, and it will be advisable to here deal somewhat fully with the subject. Little is to be learned from modern literature, and nothing whatever (but one or two records in Curtis's British Entomology, and a few more or less unreliable ones in Paget's Natural History of Great Yarmouth') from the older authors. Mr. Saunders has done some collecting about Southwold, and Mr. E. A. Butler around " Ent. Mo. Mag. 1902, p. 56. " Ibid. p. 59. " Cf. Meeting of Ent. Soc, 16 Mar. 190.). 141