1007. 1 273 



Oxypoda formiceticola, Mark., 0. hxmorrhoa, Sahl., Notothecta anceps, Er., Homa- 

 lota paralhlu, Mann., Leptacinu.i forinicelorum, Miirk. 



On the iifternoon of the day of our arrival a splendid male Asl\inomus n'dilis, 

 L., was captured in the Limber yard at Inverdruie, where there was a large amount 

 of newly sawn up timber from Scotch firs which had been felled during the pre- 

 ceding season in tlie Rothiemurchus Forest ; this specimen flew in from the forest, 

 and settled on a pile of planks, just when we were examining them for beetles ; we 

 were not lucky enough to get any other specimen of the species, but it was sufSci- 

 ently remarkable to find this insect flying about at such an extremely early date as 

 March 29th. As I have taken its pupae from under bark in Kothicmurchus Forest 

 in July, it is probable that the beetle hibernates under bark in the perfect state, and 

 emerges on the first fine day in spring. Under chips around the stumps of felled 

 trees, and walking over the stumps, were numbers of Pissodes pini, L., Hylobius 

 abietis, L , and Ips quadripustulaius, Jj. ; while Rhizopkagus depressus, ¥., Pissodes 

 tiotatus, F., and Scymnus suturalis, Thuiib., occurred more sparingly. Under bark 

 of stumps and fallen fir trees I secured a good series of Nudobius lentus, (iw, and 

 Rhagium indagator, F., was very common. 



The following were taken more sparingly in the same habitat : — Quediux xaii- 

 thopus, Er., Rhyncolus ater, L., Pytho depressus, L. (large numbers of its curious 

 larviB were seen), Dendrophagns oreiiatus, Pk., Acidoia crenata, F., Pklaeopora 

 reptans, Gr., and last, but by no means least, Homalium monillcorne, Gyll. 



A casual specimen of Aphodius uemoralis, Er., was found crawling on the road, 

 but though searched for in its pabulum no further specimen was obtained. 



As one of the objects of the journey was to get in a considerable 

 amount of walking exercise, I had no time to work moss, or possibly 

 the above list might have been considerably extended. 



10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : 

 Nooember, 1907. 



ON TWO ICHNEUMONIDAi NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 

 BY CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S., &c. 



In view of the forthcoming publication of a new Natural History 

 of the Isle of Wight, edited by Mr. Frank Morey, of Newport, it 

 will be Avell to place upon record my capture there of two species not 

 hitherto established as British. 



Mesostenus teansfuoa, Grav. 



Mesostenus transfmja, Gr., Ichn. Eur., ii, 752 ; Thorns., Op. Ent., 

 V, 516; Schm., Op. Ichn., 573, c? ? • ^- albinotatus, var. 1, Tasch. 

 Zeits. Ges. Nat., 1865, 110. Stenarceus transfuga, Thorns., Op. Ent., 

 xxi, 2381, ^ ? . 



This species is perhaps not altogether new to our fauna, since it 



