26^ Shoi't Communicatiotis :-^ 



thought at first to be another species. Mr. Morris and I have 

 also found it, about the end of July, at Charmouth. 



P. spilodactylus Curtis^ Br. Ent, PL — I found a larva of 

 this moth at Blackgang Chine, Isle of Wight, on some worm- 

 wood, June 10. 1832, which produced the moth in July 11. 

 following. The larva is rather darker, but very similar to that 

 of galactodactylus (which is light green, with a white pubes- 

 cence), and is found on the underside of burdock leaves, close 

 to the fibres, which it so much resembles that it requires 

 some care to discover it. I found it in Clapham Park 

 Wood, Beds., on May 30. 1820, and bred it on June 29. fol- 

 lowing ; since which I have found it in plenty in a wood near 

 Andover, Reading, and at Glanville's Wootton. 



P. carphodactylus Hiih,^ or citridactylus Haw, I took two 

 specimens at Glanville's Wootton, May 15. and June 1. 1818 ; 

 and Mr. B. Standish sent me one from Whittleseamere, 

 August 4. 1821 ; since which time I have not found it. Mr. 

 Curtis took P. tephradactylus Hiib., in the Isle of Arran, 

 which is the only one I have ever seen alive. P. trigono- 

 dactylus I generally take in plenty, where the coltsfoot grows, 

 at Barton Cliff, Hants ; one also at Glanville's Wootton, and 

 another at Loch Rannoch, in constant succession, from May 20. 

 to October 4. What I have seen in cabinets as P. calodac- 

 tylus, tesseradactylus, and punctidactylus, appear to me to be 

 varieties only of one species : they all appear here from April 

 to October, and are by no means rare ; and the P. calodac- 

 tylus I found in the Isle of Arran, and near Arrochar and 

 Loch Katrine, in Scotland. This last seems the most distinct 

 of the three, being of a reddish colour ; but I see no character 

 that can be called specific which will not comprehend the other 

 two ; and it is perhaps doubtful if more than one be synony- 

 mous with the Continental species. Mr. Curtis gave me a 

 pair of Adactylus BennetzV Br. Ent. PL, a species which has 

 the wings undivided ; and Mr. Haworth had one allied to 

 hexadactylus, taken by Mr. Stone, and to which he gave the 

 name of ptilodactylus. — J. C. Dale. Blamlford, Jan. 5. 1 834. 



Hymenopterous Insects. — Yespa hritdnnica (VI. 538.) 

 occasionally builds underground, as *well as in Beehives, I have 

 by me some specimens of this insect taken in 1828 from a 

 nest in a bank. I have also some nests similar to figs. 69, 

 70. (VI. 537.), taken from beehives, but I cannot say to what 

 species they belong, not having captured the architects. 

 Three years ago, a beautiful globular nest, about 8 in. in 

 diameter, was shown to me, suspended from a branch of a 

 fir tree in a shrubbery ; and a few nights after, I cut down 

 the branch, and made preparations for suffocating the in- 



