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? , Sutton, July, 1895. Odynerus Itevipes-ivro, in June, 1893, Wyre Forest ; Mr. 

 Saunders says, he does not think it has been taken for years, but Wyre Forest 

 must be a good locality for it, as Mr. Martineau also has taken sjveral there. 



Other species perhaps worth noting captured last year are : — Ponera eontracta 

 — one ? of this rare ant in my garden in July. Crahro tibialis and clavipes—a,ho 

 from Sutton. Tlie following from Bournemouth -.—Formica exsecta, Crahro pal- 

 ■mipes and varius, Wesmaeli, elongatulus, Eumenes coarctata and nests, one ? as late 

 as September 9th, Halictus leucozonius, prasinus, leucopus and punctatissimus, An- 

 drenafuscipes, coitana and Afzeliella, Nomada alboguttata. — Ralph C. Beadley, 

 Sutton Coldfield : January, 1897. 



Boreus hiemalis near Edinburgh.— 1 am glad to find that this insect is again 

 being found in Britain, after having been overlooked (there can hardly be any other 

 explanation) for many years. In the " Annals of Scottish Natural History " for 

 January, 1897, Mr. William Evans, F.R.S.E., of Edinburgh, records it from seven or 

 eight localities at the foot of the Pentland Hills in October and November last, and 

 apparently not rare. He says the favourite habitat is an old moss-grown wall or 

 tree-trunk, and the mode of capture is by shaking the moss over paper in the 

 ordinary way. — R. McLachlan, Lewishara, London : January 5th, 1897. 



Roddies. 



BiHMiXGHAM Entomological Society : November l&lh, 1896.— Mr. G-. T. 

 Bethune-Baker in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Wilkinson exhibited a collection of insects made in the Madeira 

 and Canary Islands in February, March and April last, and gave an account of his 

 visit to the Islands and of the collection. He visited Funchal (Madeira), Orotava 

 (Teneriffe) and Las Palmas (Grand Canary), Orotava being the best collecting ground. 

 He found Anosia Plexippus and A. Chrysippus very plentifully, especially the former, 

 in Grand Canary ; Vanessa Callirhoe was also common in Grand Canary ; Vanessa 

 cardui and V. Euntera both occurred ; Gonoptera Cleopatra was common. Dia- 

 dema Bolina from Orotava, a species only discovered there last year, and Deilephila 

 tithymali from Las Palmas, a species peculiar to the Canaries, and many others. 

 Mr. Betliune-Baker said that the most interesting species in the collection were 

 Pararge xiphia from Madeira, and P. xiphioides from Grand Canary, two closely 

 allied but distinct species, peculiar to the Madeiras and Canaries respectively ; also 

 Lyccena Webbiana, of which there were four specimens, this being an interesting little 

 species restricted to the Canaries. He called attention to the fact that the 

 G. Cleopatra from these Islands differ decidedly from the Mediterranean form of 

 the species. He also showed series of Pieris brassic<B and P. Wollastoni from 

 Madeira, and P. cheiranthi from Canary, and pointed out the curious fact that 

 Wollastoni, although nearer to the European brassicrt than cheiranthi, is as yet the 

 more widely divergent species ; also a series of Lycmna JVebhiana ; also Anthocharis 

 Charlonia from Algeria, a species which he said also occurred in the Canaries. Mr. 

 Kenrick said that the most curious feature in the Canary Islands fauna was the 

 occurrence of American forms. Vanessa Euntera occurred only in the Canaries and 

 America, and A. Plexippus, which is common in the Canaries, is an American species. 



