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quite feasible that it may be, like its relative cembrse, a root feeder. The imago is 

 usually much more common in rough open fields than in woods, and as Mr. Bankes 

 suggests, the larva may perhaps feed on the ground mosses which usually grow in 

 such places, just as I strongly suspect the larva of pallida does in its boggy haunts, 

 but I have never been able to find it. If any reader could give me any information 

 about the larva of either or both the above-named species I should be very grateful. 

 — A . TntTRNALL, Thornton Heath : Januarij 10th, 1907. 



PsycTiodidx in Dumhartonshire in 1906.— When the West of Scotland list of 

 Biptera (B. A. Handbook) was published in 1901 there vyere only two species of 

 Psifchodidx included. As I was aware of the fact that there must be many more 

 species in the district than these two, I resolved to do something towards obtaining 

 a better idea of the number of species occurring at least in this locality during the 

 past summer, and, thanks to the kindness of the Eev. A. E. Eaton in identifying 

 my specimens, it is now possible to extend the list to twenty-one species, one of 

 which is not included in the following list as it has not yet been described, although 

 already known to Mr. Eaton. The species marked with an asterisk are those not 

 included in previous list: — Pericoma *exquisita, Etn., very common in many 

 different places, but more especially in Murroch Q-len ; P. fallax, Etn., not 

 uncommon; P.*hlandula,E\:,n., sawce ; P.*mutua, Etn., not uncommon on tree 

 trunks at Bonhill ; P. *cognata, Etn., one specimen, Bonhill ; P. trimalis, Etn., 

 not uncommon, Bonhill ; Ulomyia fuUginosa, Mg., common throughout the district ; 

 Pericoma *neglecta, Etn., scarce, Bonhill ; Clytocerus *oceHaris, Mg., very common 

 everywhere ; Pericoma Hrifasciata, Mg., very common in one or two spots at 

 Bonhill ; P. *aiiriculata, Curt., very common throughout the district ; P. *notahilit, 

 Etn., fairly common in many marshy parts of the district ; P. *ealiginosa, Etn., 

 common in one part of Murroch Glen ; P. *m.orulus, Etn., two specimens, Bonhill ; 

 P. *sulcata, Hal., common where it occurs, Bonhill ; P. *advena, Etn., two speci- 

 mens, Bonhill ; P. paltistris, Mg., common, Bonhill ; Psychoda *phala;noides, L., 

 common everywhere and all year round ; P. *alhipennis, Zett., common ; Trichomyia 

 *urUca, Curt., three specimens at Strathleven. The undescribed form is also 

 common at Bonhill. As the species here enumerated are the result of only occa- 

 sional collecting of the group, owing to the fact that each specimen requires a tube 

 to itself, unless the tube is very large, to prevent the specimens destroying them- 

 selves, I believe that the list might easily be much enlarged by careful work. — 

 J. R. Malloch, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : January, 1907. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: The Annual Meeting 

 of the Society was held in the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on 17th inst., 

 Mr. Richard Wilding, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Lieut, the Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman, R.N., of Salop, was elected a Member of 

 the Society. 



The following OfSce Bearers were elected for the ensuing year :— President, 



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