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APROiEREMA, n. n. 



(= *Anacampsis, Auct., nee Crt.), type Tinea anthyUldeUa, Hb. 

 BY JOHN HARTLEY DURKANT, P.E.S., Memb. Soo. Ent. dk France. 



Lord Walsingham has already pointed out that *Anacampsis, Stgr. 

 Cat., Meyr., does not contain Curtis' specified ty^e poptclella, CI., and 

 that the restoration of this type to its proper genus renders TachyptiUa, 

 Jlein., a synonym of Anacampsis, Crt. (nee Stgr. Cat.), [vid' Wlsm., 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXI, 41, 43 (1895) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond, 1897, 79]. 



* Anacampsis (Stgr. Cat.), Meyr., HB. Br. Lp., 581 (1895), is thus 

 left nameless, and I am at present unacquainted with a name that can 

 be used for this genus, it is however possible that one may lie dormant 

 which may eventually be rescued from oblivion, meanwhile benefit 

 only can accrue from naming what is now^ nameless ; I would therefore 

 propose APEO.EREMA (= not the thing chosen before), with the 

 type. Tinea anthyllidella, Hb., for the genus as defined by Meyrick, 

 which has so long been wrongly known as Anacampsis. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



August \ 2th, 1897. 



HABITS OF ME TOPI A LUUCOCEFSALA, Rossi. 



BY a. C. BIGNELL, F.E.S. 



I visited a field of sand, the remains of crushed ore from a 

 disused mine in the Meavy Valley, near Yelverton, on July 8th, for 

 the purpose of seeing what Hymenoptera had taken possession of this, 

 the only sand to be found for many miles. During the day I fre- 

 quently saw these Dipterous flies poking their heads into any hole 

 they could find. At last I saw one of them disappear into a hole ; I 

 quickly placed my glass-bottomed box over the aperture ; in a few 

 seconds it re-appeared, and was duly made prisoner. I still kept 

 watch over the hole, and to my delight saw a female wasp, Grabro 

 peltarius, alight close to it with a Dipterous fly ; she was in the act of 

 entering when I placed a box over her, with the result that she also 

 was a prisoner. Since then I have captured several of these inquisitive 

 flies, and find that they are viviparous, having found five or six larvae 

 in each box by the next morning, the last capture producing sixteen 

 in thirty-six hours. 



From these observations I do not wish to convey that they only 

 attack Crabro peltarius, for I have found them hunting for other 

 victims niter peltarius had disappeared. During July, in addition to 



