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iiniigo were taken Inst year at li^lit, &e.,in the city, and in June I reared a very fine 

 example from a larva casually taken in my own garden ; unfortunately I did not look 

 for (lie larv.TB until it was too late, hut several empty cocoons were found there in the 

 auluinn. ])uring May this year at least two dozen young larvce were met with on 

 a couiile of plants of monkshood {Aconitum napellus), planted in my garden when 

 1 first came to Oxford in the hope of attracting the I'lusia ; and about the middle 

 of Ihc month, almost any number, nearly all of quite small size, might have been 

 taken in a bed of the same plant, in a nursery garden to which I have access. 

 They had caused a good deal of damage by feeding in the crowns of the plants, 

 and thereby destroying the young spikes of flowers ; some of the species of 

 JJelphinivm m the same garden were also attacked, but only in one or two 

 instances. Cocoons of P. momda are still to bo found by diligent search among 

 these plants, desijile the fact that they have been "raided" by several of the 

 Oxford Lepidopterists. I have also noticed the larva) on Aconilum in cottage 

 gardens at Bletchingdon, about seven miles from Oxford.— James J. Walker, 

 "Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford : Juue lofk, 1907. 



Hi/meiwpleni at Redhill in 1906.— The (oliowiiig arc a few notes of captures 

 at Redhill last season. Preiwlepis loiifficornis, Ltr., this active introduced species 

 was common about several shops at Linkfield Corner ; Mj/rmosa melanocephala, F., 

 Kedhill Common and Reigate Heath; Tlphia femorala, F., ? (two), burrowing in a 

 sandy bank, Redhill Common ; Gorytest bicincliis, Rossi (two), sunning on raspberry 

 leaves, July 23rd and 21tli; Xysson dimidiatux, Tur., among grass in sandy places, 

 Redhill Connnon ; Odynerux Irimarginatm, Zett., '^ , on raspberry ; Andrena 

 bimacuiala, K., five ? , two ? , one ? entering burrow with pollen, July 8th, 

 Redhdl Common ; A. fuxdpex, K., common on Erica; A. cingulata, F , '+' (two), 

 Reigate; A. loilkella, K., Redhill; Cilissa hxmorrhoidalis, F., fairly common, 

 females about burrows, males in harebells ; Panurgiis calcaratus, Scop., connnon ; 

 Chelostoma campanu/arum, K , in harebells and Canterbury bells ; Meyac/ule 

 maritima, F., abundant on Redhill Common, visiting Rubus, Erica, and Lotus 

 corniculatiis ; M. circumcincta, Lep., sparingly; M. argentata, ¥., a. small colony 

 on Redhill Common, visiting Lotus ; Osmia apimtlosa, K., common, Reigate Hills ; 

 Anthidium manicaium, L., on Ballola nigra and Stachys sylvatica ; Anthophora 

 furcata, Pz. (three), and Saropoda bimaculata,'?z. (three), both sparingly on Ballota 

 nigra.— Or. E. Fkisbt, 47, Windmill Street, Gravesend : June, 1907. 



A few Irish Ichneumonida;.— So little attention has been paid to the parasitic 

 Hymenoptera of Ireland since Haliday's time that it may be of interest to put on 

 record some captures recently effected by the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of Acton, 

 near Poyntzpass, in Co. Armagh, as extending his own records in the " Irish 

 Naturalist," 1901, pp. 255-6, and those I mentioned in I.e., 1903, p. 68. Most of 

 the following specimens were found in moss during the winter, and all of them are 

 females. Ichneumon latrator. Fab., in moss, 19.xi.04 (with one var. means, Gr.), at 

 Poyntzpass, and on 14.xii.05 (including two var. means and one of the intermediate 

 vara, mentioned by lue at " Ichneumonologia Britannica," i, 119), at Summer Hill, 

 Fermanagh— common upon both occasions ; and one in moss at Poyntzpass, 8.iii.06. 



