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Hymenoptera. — Cephus satyrus, pusillus, and tabidus, abundant at Glan- 

 ville Wootton, in 1835. Evania rninuta in plenty at Black-Gang-Chine, Isle of 

 Wight ; also, Parley Heath, and near Mount Misery, 1835. E. fulvipes, 

 one near Christchurch Head, August, 1835. Eumenes atricornis, I have 

 seen small round earthen pods on the heath, but never knew what they were 

 till this year, when I bred this species, on July 6th. I have taken it as early as 

 May 26th, and as late as the end of August, on Parley Heath, New Forest, and 

 Ramsdown ; and Captain Blomer found one or two in Wales. Nomada : I see 

 by Captain Blomer's journal that he bred one I Sparazion frontale was found 

 rather plentifully by Mr. Rudd and myself at Black-Gang-Chine and Parley Heath, 

 last August, but not in the New Forest, I believe. Scelio rugolosus is in profu- 

 sion at Lulworth. I have taken it at Glanville's Wootton, and other places, not 

 uncommonly. 



Hemiptera. — Pentatoma pusilla : I took four specimens in an inclosure in 

 the New Forest, June 27, 1832. Cydnus dubius taken on the Gog Magog Hills, 

 in April, at Portland ferry, by Mr. Streatfield ; and I took a pair on Hodd Hill, 

 August 19th, 1835. 



There has been some difference of opinion as to whether Lyccena Agestis, 

 Salmacis, and Artaxerxes, form three, two, or only one species ; I am in fa- 

 vour of the last, and consider the difference to arise merely from the influence 

 of locality, or geographical distribution. The Artaxerxes, I believe, is not found 

 south of the Tweed, excepting only one found in Devon, according to Dr. Leach's 

 MSS. But I have observed a few having a slight black pupil to the ocelli, on the 

 reverse side ; and one I took at Duddingston Loch has it more distinct than some 

 of those taken at Newcastle, where it assumes the name of Salmacis ; some 

 resembling the former, and some differing but little from our southern species 

 (Agestis) or variety, and which has been supposed by some persons to be 

 hybrids. From those who contend for three species, I would request opinions as 

 to a specimen lately taken, near Langport, by Edward Paul, Esq., being evidently 

 Agestis (a remarkably fine p ) with a more complete white spot, with a black 

 pupil, than any I have seen from Newcastle ; and I have a specimen or two shew- 

 ing a little white cincture to the black spot. Surely it would be going too far to 

 make a. fourth species ; and yet it is better than Salmacis. I think this proves, 

 beyond doubt, that they are but one species ; and I think this Langport variety an 

 interesting capture. Mr. Bentley has a beautiful variety of Agestis, totally desti- 

 tute of black ocelli on reverse. The larvae of Butterflies are not very often met 

 with, and I should have thought the time to seek for them would be in the sun- 

 shine ; but by the MSS. of the late Captain Blomer, I find he collected several 

 by the use of a lanthorn, such as Hipparchia Galathea, Janira, &c. : and I find, 

 also, he bred from larva a specimen of Lycozna Alsus, our smallest British But- 

 terfly ; and from his journal I should imagine him to have been a most indefati- 

 gable collector. 



