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did not, in the great majority of cases, yet quite reach the outer air. Though 

 quite perfect, the Siricids had not attained their normal muscular power, and 

 crowded confinement in a glass phial did not conduce to its promotion. Their an- 

 tenna3 appear to be exceedingly brittle, and in scarcely one example are they now 

 both perfect. We carried away twenty-four specimens, of which but six were 

 females, and left a great number in their burrows in a state of more or less maturity. 

 The curious part appears to be their affection of an oah post. Cameron says it 

 " feeds on willows, and F. Smith records it from the London district " about old 

 willows." There were certainly willows and sallows in the vicinity, but we noted 

 no examples upon them. Stephens records it from Norfolk, as well as from Fulham 

 and the New Forest. — Claude Morlet, Ipswich : July, 1899. 



P.S. — The pabulum oi X. dromedarius should always be carefully searched, or, 

 where practicable, brought home and preserved for a time, since it is by no means 

 impossible that the fine Ichneumon, Rhyssa alpestris, Holmgr., recorded as bred from 

 its pupoe in Norway and Denmark (Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl., 1860, p. 9) may occur 

 with us if systematically searched for. It differs from the common R. persuasoria, 

 L., in having the conspicuous white markings of the latter species replaced by red. 



Hemerobitts peUucidus and other HemerobiideB in North Devon. — On June 23rd 

 while beating two or three detached fir trees in our garden, I secured a specimen of 

 this somewhat rare Hemerobius, and subsequent efforts produced three others. On 

 the 24th I beat another specimen from evergreen oak, but although I thoroughly 

 beat the garden for many days afterwards I failed to find any more, but on the 25th 

 got one H. inconspicuus and another on the 30th ; H. stigma {limhatus) began to 

 appear on the 23rd, and I got a few which are much redder than my Surrey speci- 

 mens. The garden also produced H. humuli, lutescens, micans, and micans var. 

 fusconervis. At Rochford, in the East Lynn valley, at the end of May and early in 

 June, I secured a nice little seines of H. atrifrons, beaten from larch trees that I 

 noticed the previous year to be greatly affected by what seemed to be Chermes 

 laricis. I also got from these trees Micromus paganus and variegatus. — C. A. 

 Beiggs, Rock House, Lynmouth : July Ith, 1899. 



Coleoptera at Dagenham, Esiex.—On the afternoons of April 29th and May 

 4th I collected on some marshy ground near this village ; on both days the weather 

 was cold and unfavoui'able, but most of the work was done by grubbing at the roots 

 of reeds and grass. I got some good insects, many of them new to me, the most 

 characteristic feature was the great abundance of Anchomeni. The following were 

 the best captures :^ Bembidium fumigatuni, Duft., very scarce, Anchomenus atratus, 

 Duft., Thoreyi, Dej., Leistus rufescens, F., Alianta incaiia, Er., Ocyusa maiira, Er., 

 picina, Aube, scarce, Homalota hygrotopora, Kr., Hygrononia dimidiata, Grav., 

 Stenus Erichsoni, Rye, Rybaxis sanguinea, L., very abundant, Anisosticta 19-punc- 

 tata, L., Soronia grisea, L., under willow bark, Erirhinus bimaculatus, F., and scirpi, 

 F. Chrysomela polita, L., occurred in great profusion at the roots of the reeds ; it 

 would be interesting to know the food plant of the larvas of this species. — T. Hudson. 

 liEAKE, King's Road, Richmond, Surrey : Jttli/ 1th, 1899. 



