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a single male taken near Marseilles. Franz Low found it, apparently freely, on 

 Austrian pine, Scots pine, and common spruce in March, April, and July, in 

 Lower Austria, but it does not appear that he bred it; Mr. West's single 

 example was taken on ash at Box Hill, but he tells me that there are conifers in 

 the neighbourhood. — James Edwards, Colesborne, Cheltenham : Jan. 6th, 1912. 



Agrion hastulatum, Charp., at Avieniore. — Since the time when Colonel 

 Yerbury took a specimen of Agrion hastulatum, I have visited the locality at 

 frequent intervals, but have only taken odd specimens of the species. During 

 last July I visited the same locality several times, but without any success. I 

 then moved further afield, with the result that I came itpon a locality where I 

 managed to captiu-e a fairly good series of the J , having a fe^v for friends. The 

 ? was very scarce, or, at least, not easily captured. The few which I took were 

 in company with ^s. I did not see the species after the middle of August. 

 It is a pleasure to know that another Dragon-fly is well established in Scotland, 

 as I have little doubt that this fly will be easily obtained by anyone visiting the 

 locality during future years. — James J. F. X. King, 1, Athol Gardens Terrace, 

 Kelvinside, Glasgow .- January 15th, 1912. 



Bonihus terrestris, L., and B. rudcratiis, Fab.{=^ suhterraneus. Smith), in 

 New Zealand. — Mr. F. W. Hilgendorf has recently sent me specimens of the 

 queens of these two species from Lincoln, New Zealand, the descendants of 

 queens imported from England in 1885, twenty-seven years ago. In size, 

 colouring and structure, they do not differ materially from ordinary English 

 specimens. In coloviring, for instance, the ruderatus show every grade of 

 variation from entirely black to black with a yellow band on the front of the 

 thorax, another on the scvitelhim, a transverse yellow spot on either side of the 

 first segment of the abdomen, and the fourth segment dingy white, this tint 

 extending on to the sides of the third and the fifth segments ; but the white 

 spreads rather further on to the third segment, and the hairs on the clypeus 

 are more red, less black, than in average British specimens. Also, the coat on 

 the upper siu'face of the thorax, especially on the scutelltun, appears to be 

 slightly shorter, and on the abdomen slightly longer, in the ruderatus queens 

 than in the British queens of this species in my collection. One of the ruderatus 

 from New Zealand has the hairs of the cox'bicula red, a colouring which is rare 

 in England, where these hairs are usually entirely black. It will be interesting 

 to see if these slight deviations from the ancestral type become accentuated as 

 time goes on, and therefore it has seemed to me worth while to record them. — 

 F. W. L. Sladen, Eipple, Dover: February 5th, 1912. 



Macquartia chalconota, Mg., a Dipterous parasite of Chrysomela varians, 

 Schall. — In June, 1911, I collected a number of Chrysomela variants larvae on a 

 species of Hypericum, one lot being from Kiddington, near Woodstock, Oxon, 

 and another from Wytham, Berks. I kept each lot separate, and besides breeding 

 a series of the beetle, I also bred a nice series of a Tachinid fly from both sets of 

 larvae. Specimens of the flies were submitted to Mr. J. E. Collin, who very 

 kindly named them for me as Macquartia chalconota, Mg. (= M. nitida, Zett). 

 He also supplied the interesting information that it is recorded as bred from the 

 same host by Eupertsberger (Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 842). — J. Collins, 

 University Museiun, Oxford : January, 1912. 



