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Oxytelus snulryi, PatuL, nt Harnnc. — In Janiuiry I secured a short series of 

 0. saulcyi from moles' nests, in tlie Harrow Weald. Choleva /uliginosa, Er., 

 was taken from some of the same nests.— Here\v.\rd C. Dollman. 



Bledhis fracticomis, Pk., near London. — By siftino^ flood-refuse from the 

 River Thames at Kew, durinij mid- winter, I took this Bledius very sparingly. — 

 Herbward C. Dollman. 



A Notodo7itid attacked hij a wasp. — With reference to the interesting notes 

 by Mr. J. C. Eales White on p. 260 of the Novemlier number of this Magazine, 

 I do not i-emember to have met with any record of wasps attacking Lepidoptera. 

 At the end of July last, while entomologizing in the woods near Heidelberg, my 

 attenticm was drawn to a fliittering object on the path. On examination it proved 

 to be a large moth hehl seciirely from escape by a wasp. The moth had evidently 

 got the worst of the struggle. The wasp I removed and killed. The moth, 

 rather damaged by the fight, was found to have a wound in the abdomen, and 

 died shortly afterwards. It was a Notodonta, probably dromedarius, but specific 

 identity is a little uncertain owing to its damaged condition. — E. O. Croft, 

 28, Clarendon Road, Leeds: November 8ni, 11)11. 



Hemiptera in Dorset and Swccej/.— During June and July, 1911, Salda 

 marginalis, Fall., was verj' abundant on Studlaud Heath, Dorset, in fact so 

 abundant that I took .!() in ten minutes. They were crawling about on patches 

 of damp sand, and were very easily captured as they seldom seemed to jiunp or 

 run very fast. In August, I swept the Centaurea on the Hog's Back above 

 Compton, but only managed to find about fiftj" Oncotylus viridijlamis, Goeze. 

 Probably I was too late for them, as I could find no larvae, whereas last year all 

 stages were abundant. I might mention also that Gonocerus venator. Fab., was 

 not unconmion on Box Hill at the end of August. — H. A. Saunders, B.A., 

 Brookfield House School, Swanage : December, 1911. 



Athysanus sejungendus, Kh., and its food-plant. — In August, 19()7, while 

 collecting at the estuary of the Yar in the Isle of Wight, I took a few speci- 

 mens of an Athysanus which, though allied to A. ohsoletus, Kb., were evidently 

 different from any recorded Britisli species. They were subsequently identified 

 by Mr. Jas. Edwards as A. sejnngendus, Kb. (see Ent. Mo. Mag., xliv, p. ")9). I 

 was not able at that time to determine the food-plant, and could only record 

 that it was a salt-marsh insect. Kirschbaum, moreover, gives no information 

 as to the nature of its habitat. But daring August, 1911, I was able to pay 

 another visit to Yarmouth, when I succeeded in tracing the insect to its food- 

 plant ; I fovmd it also at Lymington, Hants, in the utmost jirofusion. It lives 

 on SpaHina stricta. Roth, a gi-ass that grows on mud-flats which are regularly 

 covered with water, at least at high tide ; these flats form in many places the 

 seaward boundary of the Lymington Salterns. At all parts of this area that 

 were acc<\ssihl(>, T fouml the insect in great abundance. The J <? were mostly 

 over, and theii dead bodies, either entire or in fragments, were to be found iu 



