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forest where rabbits are abundant. I found it hidden in the shadow on herbs under the trees. Eccoptomera obscura (Meigen, 1830) — We do not know much about Eccoptomera obscura only that it occurs in caves and rarely collected. I have been able to collect three females, one in Péterhalmi Forest on November 26th, 1995 and two near Budakeszi on December 9th, 1995. They do not seem very good flyers; I was able to catch them without a net from snow. Neoleria flavicornis (Loew, 1862) — I think Neoleria flavicornis is quite rare, although it was collected in various parts of Hungary. Unfortunately we do not know anything about its life nor where their larvae develop. Till now I have collected only one specimen, a male, in the Pilis Mountains, near Pilisszentlászló on April 22nd, 1995 on some plant in the shadow of some trees near a brook. Neoleria ruficeps (Zetterstedt, 1838) — Séguy mentions that Neoleria ruflceps was collected from a fallen blackbird nest and from a dead bird (Séguy 1934: 336). Near Budakeszi, on November 26th, 1994, I collected two males on droppings of wild-boar. Till now we do not know anything about their larvae and its habitat. But maybe we may get some hints where to look for it from my observation and Séguy's. The species seems to be rare; only a few specimens were collected in Hungary. Schroederella iners (Meigen, 1830) — It seems to occur in almost the whole Palaearctic region, yet it is very rarely collected and almost always as single specimens. Thus it was a big surprise to catch three flies on the same occasion. 1 collected two males and a female on November 12th, 1995 in Péterhalmi Forest. They were sitting in the sunshine on fallen leaves. It was very difficult to catch these fast flying insects. Probably there were more flies which managed to escape. A week earlier Dr. L. Papp caught in the same forest, but on another place, the first male collected in Hungary till then. Schroederella hungarica L. Papp et M. Carles-Tolrá, 1994 — Less than hundred meters from the place where I caught Schroederella iners, I collected on January 13th, 1996 three males and a female of Schroederella hungarica. Till then only the holotype, a male from Agasegyháza, was known. At the collecting site I was convinced that the flies were just specimens of Orbellia hiemalis, because they look rather similar and both species were collected on the same spot, namely, in the field with reeds. It is interesting to note here, that a third species of Schroederella, S. minuta Papp et M. Carles-Tolrá, 1994, was described after a holotype collected in a field of reeds as well! Dr. L. Papp and M. Carles-Tolrá did not have a female at their disposal, when they described the species. You might, however, conclude from the key in Papp and Carles-Tolrá, 1994 that the sternites of the female S. hungarica are not much wider than long, while the 7th tergite is not sclerotized. Yet, this is not the case. The sternites are more than twice as wide as long and the 7th tergite is sclerotized as is the case with S. iners. The body coloration of both male and female is very similar. Quite typical are the greyish-blackish legs with broad orange-yellow knees, again, in both sexes. I put the female of S. hungarica into the collection of the Natural History Museum in Budapest. Gymnomus caesius (Meigen, 1830) and Gymnomus spectabilis (Loew, 1862) — They are collected only occasionally outside caves. But near Mátraháza on October 7th and October 8th, 1995 I observed many flies in a forest. I was able to collect 8 males and 1 female of G. caesia and 11 males and 1 female of G. spectabilis, but I saw many more. Unfortunately, I was not able to stay longer to collect more specimens. It was not an easy task to collect these very fast flies. They were extremely cautious. The flies, mainly males, were collected on light, naked tree branches, laying in the sunshine in a