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-— 8th. Coleoptera : larva of Tillus ambulans, in rotten oak, bred on the 

 11th; Leptura praeusta. — 12th. Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire. Coleop- 

 tera: CEdemera podagrariae. — 15th. Lepidoptera (Geom.) insulata. Dip- 

 tera : Criorhina floccosa, ^ and $ . — 20th. Lepidoptera : bred (iVoctua) 

 verbasci,two years in pupa. Diptera : Hilara cilipes ^. 



June 2d. Glanville's Wootton. Coleoptera : Telephorus fuscus. — 1 1th. 

 Coleoptera : Malthinus brevicollis. Hymenoptera : Cephus pusillus ?, 

 on oak. Lepidoptera: (CTinea) hesperidella. Diptera: Cecidomjia 

 tritici. Strepsiptera : Stylops ? or n. g. ? Walken' ? : I cannot find any 

 bee about likely to produce a Stylops now ; it might come from some 

 Tespa, and then would probably be a Xenos ?. jE'mpis pennipes, a Semblis 

 with very smooth wings. Cephus minutus ?. — 12th. Fumea plumistrea ?, 

 bred ; larva found in a case on an oak in the New Forest. — 18th. Oxycera 

 analis, terminata, formosa, and trilineata, in Mullet's Copse; the first 

 three, I believe, are new to Britain. — 19th. Rhaphium ? ^ and $. 

 Phycita bistriga, Pedicia rivosa, Panorpagermanica, Lycae^nrt Cymow, only 

 three and bad, and one Pda*. — 30th. Near Weymouth. Tetanocera mar- 

 ginata, Crambus barbus, Forficula borealis, in plenty under stones. Isthmus 

 of Portland. Harpalus stygius, Cryptocephalus pusillus, &c. 



July 2d. (A flower) Sevk^ias palustris, at Charmouth. — 3d. Cicin- 

 dela germanica, in plenty in wet situations on the Liasa Sea. — 5th. Pa- 

 chygaster Leachii, Tephritis cardui, O'rtalis crassipennis, and A'lcis con- 

 versariaand (Geom.) ambadata, by Mr. Morris. — 7th. At Teignmouth 

 (^Captain Blomer had larvae of Thecla betulae\ Pterophorus lunaedactylus, 

 in tolerable plumage. — 8th. Scopula asinalis ^ and $. — 9th. Larvae 

 of (iVoctua) Achatea spreta. $ A'lcis (fine) conversaria, Andrena haemor- 

 rhoidalis, — 10th, Bradley Woods, near Newton Bushell. E'later 4- 

 pustulatus and vars. ? Geom. ^ var. B. piniarius. G. procellata. 

 Bombylius. — 12th. (A flower) Cistus perfolius, near Torquay. Scopula 

 longipedalis, figured by Curtis (British Entomology) ; Phytometra lusoria, 

 Phosphuga subrotundata, Ophonus azureus, Tabanus rusticus or alpinus ?, 

 (Curtis's British Entomology/); a rare Helophilus ? — 14th. On the 

 Dart near Ashburton. Chimarra marginata ; A'therix maculata, which I 

 took from a Crabro ; saw^ Perla grandis ? on some fern, and crossed the 

 river. (A flower) Campanula ^ederacea. (A bird) Mr. Hale shot two 

 young Lanii? — 15th. At Islington, and High Tor Rocks, borders 

 of Dartmoor. Leptura 8-maculata, and Chrysomela varians only. — 

 20th. Near Bideford. Medeterus? (^ and $.; Acanthia, n. s.?; 

 Syrphus ornatus, Andrena rosae?, and a rare bee?. — 21st. At Sand- 

 hills, near Appledore. (A rare rush) Hemerobius n. s. ? ; Chrysopa 

 viridis, pupae of Pulex ifalpee, Perilampus ?, and Phycis marisci of Curtis ; 

 CoUetes succlncta (Pharalias euphorbie<^). — 24th. Near Barnstable. 

 Two or three species of Nemotelus. — 26th. Branston Burrows. 

 .4'nthrax flava ; Pterophorus n. s. ? not in Haw. Lep. Brit. Mr. Cocks 

 took there Cordulia compressa. — 27th. At Ilfracombe. Tortrix infici- 

 liana, or n. s. ?, and saw Tinea barbatella ?. — 28th. At and near Val- 

 ley of Rocks. Scopula asinalis and flammealis, Eudorea raurana, (Geom.) 

 incanata, Crambus pineti, and Ornithomyia viridis. — 29th. Colymbetes 

 isubnebulosus ?, under dry stones near the sea, no fresh water near ; 

 CoUetes succincta, in places near the sea on ragwort. — 30th. Charissa 

 obscuraria ?, on a wall on Mendip Hills, no heath near ; Muscai pyrastri, 

 from Appledore; Phycita diluta. — 31st. Notonecta maculata, in a pond 

 without weeds at Cheddar Clifls; Phycita nebulosa, Lycae^na Argiolu*, 

 Argjnni* Aglaia, Hipparchia Semek, (Geom.) bipunctata, Jfusca p^n- 

 dula [?]. 



August 2. Larva of M. stellatarum, Pyraustra cingulalis and ostrinalis [?], 

 or its ally. — 16th. Tortrix emargana and excavana, &c., near Glanville's 

 Wootton; Galeruca viburni?, pale under side. — 19th. A fine Tfpula in 



