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Porthcawl. It is extremely abundant on the sand-hills there, but there is no 

 broom within some miles of th(! locality ; there is, however, a most extensive 

 o-rowth of Ononis repens, and on this plant I found the Sitones in the greatest 

 abundance. The only other plant I thought I might find it on was LoUis corni- 

 ctdat'us, but this proved unfruitful. I found it freqiiently under Erodium, but, 

 I think, only sheltering. — H. M. Hallett. 



Monochaimis sartor L. in London. — This fine Longicorn has made its 

 appearance in a woodyard at Old Ford, where my son found it emerging from 

 fir logs imported from the district of Archangel. This wood is known as 

 " Archangel white wood." Although only an introduced species, it is interesting 

 to record its occurrence in this country, where I believe it has rarely been found. 

 — R. S. MiTFOBD, Thornlea, Weybridge : Octoher, 1916. 



Hylotrupes bajulus L. at Weybridge. — On August 11th, 1915, I took in my 

 gai'den a nice si>ecimen of this rare beetle. The Rev. W. W. Fowler in his des- 

 cription of this species in Vol. IV, p. 222, of his work on British Coleoptera, 

 gives Weybridge as a locality in which it was captured by Dr. Power. My 

 specimen is therefore interesting as showing that this beetle is still to be found 

 in its old haunts. But carefxil search has failed to reveal its headquarters. — 



R. S. MlTlfOBD. 



Gastrodes abietis L. in Oxfordshire. — When at Thame Park, on Augiist 8th, 

 1916, I came across a nvimber of old spruce fir trees, which had been uprooted 

 by the previous winter's gales ; and as there was a large number of cones still 

 on them, I searched these in the hope of finding Gastrodes abietis L. at home. 

 The first tree examined had four cones on it, each of which contained 

 numbers of immature examples of the above insect, with only three mature 

 specimens. This early success led me to make a systematic search of every 

 cone on all the trees, spending some hours in the quest, and examining some 

 hundreds of cones without result until the very last tree was reached, when I 

 came across the hug in some numbers, taking over 50 beautiful examples — all 

 quite mature. They live beneath the rather loose scales of the previous 

 season's cones, and it was only necessary to tap the end of each cone into the 

 sweeping net to cause them all to come tumbling out. There was only one 

 example of the common Gastrodes ferrugineus L. in all the cones. — H. Britten, 

 Myrtle View, Windmill Road, Headington, Oxon. : October I5th, 1916. 



Vespa austriaca Panz. at Penarth.—l fotmd the females of this wasp plenti- 

 fully during the second half of June, about the hedgerows, in company with 

 females of V. vulgaris, germanica, rufa, and sylvestris. Of these, V. germanica, 

 as is usually the case here, were much the most numerous and had apparently 

 been on the wing a good deal longer, as they were very worn ; the otlier species 

 were all in fresh condition. V. austriaca is known to associate as an inquiline 

 on V. rufa, and in" Soiith Devon, Dr. R. C. L. Perkins tells me it associates with 



