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in the market I should not have believed him ; yet such has happened this year, 

 and I have passed males without attempting to catch them, and have caught and 

 let others go on ascei-taining their sex. The fly affects the edges of pine woods and 

 sits on gate posts, posts for wire fencing, and other similar situations ; another 

 haunt is the clearings in these woods, where it is found on the stumps of the felled 

 pines. The number of specimens taken near Nairn between July 6th and 18th was 

 eleven males and one female ; and to show how abundant the species was at the 

 time, the following extracts from my diary give the numbers seen on the best 

 days ; — 11th, seven specimens ; I4th, six specimens ; 16th, six specimens ; and 

 18th, nine specimens ; on two or three other days single specimens were seen. On 

 each of the days 11th, lith and 16th, three specimens were caught, while at first 

 many were missed. These misses, however, taught experience, and one learnt never 

 to attempt to sweep the insect from post or stump, for it is very lethargic and loth 

 to move, but when possible to put the net over it. Should wire netting, side of 

 post, &e., render this method impracticable, then try to pop a glass-bottomed box 

 over it ; not so hopeless a proceeding as one might imagine, but one which was 

 successful on more than one occasion. The pine stumps affected by Laphria Jlava 

 ai'e also the haunts of the big Ichneumon {Tthyssa perstiasoria, Linn.). These 

 stumps are riddled with the borings of Coleopterous larva, so probably both insects 

 visit them for much the same purpose— the Asilid larvae preying on the beetle 

 larvffi, and the Ichneumon larvae being parasites on them. 



Laphria Jlava occurs too in this neighbourhood, e. g., July 27th, tliree speci- 

 mens seen in the Abernethy Forest ; 31st, a single $ captured in quite a different 

 part of the Forest ; but so far their head -quarters here has not been discovered. — 

 J. W. Yerbfrt, Nethybridge Hotel, Nethybridge, N.B. : August 2nd, 1904. 



Not en on some rare Trypetidx. — Ceratitis capitata, Wied., =^ citriperda, Mac 

 Leay. — An excellent figure of this species is given by Newman in the Entomologist, 

 vol. iv, p. 183. He there states that it is destructive to pears as well as to oranges. 

 I have seen no subsequent account of its oceuri'ence in England. 



Anomoea permundus, Harris, ^= antiqua, Wied. — Moses Harris apparently 

 thought that the wings of this species resembled a ma]i of the world, though by an 

 unfortunate printer's error an u took the place of the first e in the specific name. 

 He gives an admirable figure, and states that it was found on a leaf near Dartford 

 in Kent. Of course that was previous to 1786, the date of publication of his work ; 

 the second was taken at Southgate by F. Walker in a lime tree in August, 1834 ; 

 the third was taken by myself at Glanvilles Wootton on July 18th, 1870 ; the fourth 

 was taken by Mr. Adams in the New Forest in 1902. 



Acinea rotundiventris, Fall. — The first was taken at Weston-on-the-Green by 

 the Rev. A. M. Matthews on June 23rd, 1832 ; the second was taken by John 

 Curtis (in company with J. C. Dale) in Bordean Hanger on July 18th, 1844 ; the 

 third was taken by the Rev. T. A. Marshall at Lydford G-eorge on July 6th, 1892 ; 

 the fourth was taken at Glanvilles Wootton by myself on July 4th, 1899. 



Platyparea discoidea, Fab. — My specimen was taken at Raehills, in Scotland, 

 by the Rev. W. Little in 1842. 



Urellia eluta, Mg. — One was taken in Portland by J. C. Dale on July 16th, 

 1839 ; and a second was taken by G. A. Ridley at West Runton in 1902. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., new ser., vol. xii, p. 9. 



