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is a minor, but still very apparent segment ; it protrudes on 

 each side of the scutellum of the mesothorax, and bears a pair 

 of crumpled, opaque, whitish hind wings, which are some- 

 what pedunculated, and much resemble the hind wings or 

 halteres of Diptera ; my friend, Mr. Walker, called my 

 attention to these. The mouth I have not dissected ; as far as 

 may be ascertained without dissection, its mandibles are 

 elongate, linear, and without any horizontal motion ; its 

 maxipalpi fully developed as in Diptera, but the maxillae 

 scarcely discernible ; its labium distinct and triangular, as in 

 Lepidoptera, but the labipalpi minute or obsolete. None of 

 these characters seems sufficient to separate this genus from 

 Diptera. E. N. D. 



30. Bombus Regelationis. — I found fine females of this 

 beautiful bee, which, I believe, has not hitherto been recorded 

 as British, feeding on the blossoms of the whortleberry, on the 

 marshy summit of the Black Mountain. They were in great 

 abundance, but exceedingly difficult to capture, owing to the 

 high wind and the rapidity of their flight. 



E. N. D. 



31. Sap yga prisma.— Last autumn I observed the females 

 of this rare insect in considerable numbers, settling on the 

 leaves of a Morella cherry-tree in my father's garden. I 

 captured two only. On Dinmore, the beautiful Vicia sylvatica 

 is now in full flower, festooning many of the trees to the height 

 of twenty or thirty feet ; and, in some instances, completely 

 hiding their own foliage. There are but few umbellijerce in 

 blossom ; I have taken one Pachyta octomaculata ; and Athcrix 

 Ibis is in profusion on the river banks, especially on the 

 Symphytum, many beautiful varieties of which are in blossom, 

 some of a splendid purple. 



Leominster, 1st June. GEORGE NeWMAN, JlUl. 



32. Farmers Magazine, v. Rusticus. — Were Rusticus in 

 England our pen would not be required to defend him : as it 

 is, we offer the following to the inspection of our readers, 

 simply to show, what appears to us, the unceasing desire to 

 extinguish truth : 



