. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. LETTER TO THE EDITOR BR. J. ENT NAT. 10: 1998 (1997) More on the BENHS logo—after much soul- searching we have our Society logo! Imagine my surprise when I was sent, by one of my Spanish colleagues, the volume of programme and resumes for the 1996 Iberian Congress of Entomology, which I had hoped to attend. ... I have photocopied the cover! — Peter H. Langton. SHORT COMMUNICATION Sciapus maritimm Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in Britain. Whilst attending the annual summer field meeting of the Dipterists
. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. LETTER TO THE EDITOR BR. J. ENT NAT. 10: 1998 (1997) More on the BENHS logo—after much soul- searching we have our Society logo! Imagine my surprise when I was sent, by one of my Spanish colleagues, the volume of programme and resumes for the 1996 Iberian Congress of Entomology, which I had hoped to attend. ... I have photocopied the cover! — Peter H. Langton. SHORT COMMUNICATION Sciapus maritimm Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in Britain. Whilst attending the annual summer field meeting of the Dipterists Forum at Ayr in 1995 I visited the coastal dunes at Turnberry () on in company with other members of the party. On the seaward side of the dunes I swept, from amongst the scattered vegetation, several male specimens of a Sciapus which I subsequently identified as maritinnis, using the key in the paper by MeutTels & Grootaert (1990). Mr J. H. Cole who was in the party tells me that he also collected examples of this species. This appears to be the first confirmed occurrence of the true Sciapus nuiritinuis in Britain and bears out, in part, the prediction of Speight (1991) that all four of the western European species of the contristans group (of which maritinms is one) will be found in Britain. The publication of the paper by Meuffels & Grootaert was noted by Mr C. E. Dyte in the Empid and Dolichopodid Study Group Newsheet No. 10, September 1991, commenting that it demonstrates that there has been much confusion over both the recognition of, and names applied to Sciapus contristans and its relatives. Mr Dyte has recently pointed out to me (//; litt.) that males running to nuiritinuis in the key in Assis Fonseca (1978) could be nuiritinuis, basilicus or zonatulus: this means records of nuiritinuis in the British literature could relate to any of these species. It is likely, though not certain, that British material previously under the name nuiritinuis
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