1907]. 237 



work out. the full synonymj of the species. Unfortunately three species of Oelechia 

 recorded in Ciinon Cruttwell's note (I.e.) viz , " -lequax," " ericefel/a," and " proxi- 

 mella," nre omitted from the Special Index (erroneously headed " Q-eneral Index ") 

 to the volume in question, though the fourth, viz., " soluiella," is included therein ! 

 — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe Pastle : August Mth, 1907. 



Tortrix .lemialbana at Donca.ster. —A few days au;o Mr. L. S. IJrady, of Sheffield, 

 sent nie on for confirmation of his own determination a very vrell marked and fine 

 specimen of Tortrix semialbana which he had taken on August Ith last in Edlington 

 Woods, Doncaster. The capture is exceedingly interesting, as hitherto the species 

 has only been recorded from the South of England, and then very locally ; indeed, 

 of late years it seems only to have occurred at Folkestone. — Geo. T. Pobeitt, 

 Edgorton, Iluddersfield : September ^rd, 1907. 



Lyqxus eqnestris, Linn., at St. Margnret\'i Bay. — While spending my 

 holidays at St. Margaret's Bay I was busy sweeping the wild flowers on the cliffs 

 cloi^e to the Granville Hotel on a hot suimy still day (August 29th), when my 

 wife who was with me called out " here is a beautiful bug sitting on a flowering 

 umbel;" hurrying up I was greatly rejoiced to find I was the lucky captor of a 

 specimen of the above rare bug. .Mr. Saunders, in his " flemiplera-Heteroptera of 

 the British Islands," p. 69, records only three captures (there is a more recent one 

 from the Isle of Sheppey), and says that it is probably only an " occasional visitant." 

 I may say (hat while I was in the locality the wind was never a favourable one for 

 insects crossing fi'om the Continent to our islands. — T. Hudson Beaee, 10, Regent 

 Terrace, Edin'nirgh : September \C>th, 1907. 



[The Sheppey specimen referred to was taken on September 22nd, 190fi, by my 

 friend Lieut. J. J. Jacobs, R.E., and kindly given to me by him. It was found, I 

 believe, on a flower head of Centaurea nigra. — J. J. W.]. 



Identification of Saliui notatulun ^ . — Having recently been successful in 

 finding several of both sexes of this Aculeate in company, I think I can settle the 

 vexed question as to the correct V for the well known and very distinct $ . The ? 

 bears all the characters assigned to it in Mr. Edward Saunders' work, with (he 

 exception that in all my specimens the cubital nervure runs to the apex of the fore- 

 wing as in exaltatus. The clear eye-spot on this wing will prevent confusion with 

 pannilns, and the black legs with obtu.sioentris. The two insects with which 

 notatulus $ might be confounded arc exaltatus and ptisillus. In both the latter 

 the penultimate joint of the anterior tarsus is longer than wide (in exaltatus twice 

 as long), and the anterior coxse and prosternum bear a row of long pale recurved 

 hairs : whereas in notatulus the tarsal joint is transverse, the anterior coxse bear one 

 or two very short hairs, and the prosternum is entirely glabrous. Mr. Saunders 

 has also directed my attention to the fact that notatulus 9 looks blacker than any 

 other V s of the genus owing to the absence of the fine golden pubescence that 

 occurs on the head and thorax of all the latter. — C.'H. Moetimer, Holmwood : 

 feptemher, 1907. 



Osmia parietina in Wales. — A. $ of this species (which was re-discovered at 

 Criccieth in 1900 by Mr. Nevinson) and which I have been at a loss to classify since 



