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was first described by him in the Ent. Mo. Mag., v, 196. In this connection I may 

 perhaps be forgiven for mentioning another habitat for C. pedlcularius, L., which 

 was eoniraon in the debris (mostly bones) of a calf at Foxhall on September 30th. 

 Mr. McLachlan says, in litt. — " It is sometimes found in very odd places. I have 

 often noticed multitudes flying on calm hot afternoons in autumn. Once it was sent 

 me as found in myriads when wheat was being reaped, and annoying the men by tlie 

 irritation caused by it on their bare arms. Sometimes it is found in boxes of insects, 

 and from this it was argued that it was the perfect insect of Atropos divinatoria, 

 but the latter, when full grown, is ' perfect ' without turning to a Ccecilius ! I have 

 had it from hives and old honeycomb. I believe there is a short winged form of the 

 ? , as in several other species." — Claude Moriet, Ipswich : October \Qth, 1899. 



Fotirfeen-jointed antennce in a $ Animophila. — Among some males of a probably 

 new species of Ammophila (Group Parapsammophila) taken by me in Algeria last 

 year I find one which shows a very curious eccentricity of structure. Both its an- 

 tennaj are 14-jointecl, 13 joints being, as is well known, the maximum and nearly 

 universal number in all normal $ Aculeates. From a comparison of these antennae, 

 joint by joint, with those of my other specimens (which are all 13- jointed as usual), 

 I am led to infer that the extra joint is really additional, i. e., not produced by a 

 division of one joint into two, and also that it has been added not at the apex of the 

 antennse but somewhere between the third and twelfth joints. I once found and 

 recorded in this Magazine a ^ of Andrena angustior, Kby., with only 12 antennal 

 joints ; but I have never before seen or heard of a case in which the normal number 

 has been exceeded. — F. D. Mokice, Brunswick, Woking : October, 1899. 



Autumn Hymenoptera near Woking in 1899. — I have done a little collecting 

 this autumn among the Hymenoptera in and round this neighbourhood, and although 

 on the whole they seemed rather unusually scarce, I have secui*ed a few specimens 

 of more or less interest. These include my first British ^ of Prosopis cornuta, 

 Smith, taken within a hundred yards of my own house, as well as several females of 

 the same species, all on Daucus carota ; also, at Star Hill, Woking, one specimen of 

 Hedychrydium coriaceum, Dahlb., the only other recorded British specimen of which 

 I took at Ottershaw in 1897. Near the road from Woking Station to Old Wokin<T, 

 on flowers on the i-iver bank, a c? of Cralro pubescens, Shuck. At Downside, Cob- 

 ham, a ? of Crabro gonager, Lep., at Chobham a J of Oxylelus mandibularis, 

 Dahlb,, and at Frenshan) (in company with the Rev. A. Thornley, of South Leverton, 

 Lincoln) two females of the same species ; also, at Frensham, Mr. Thornley shown 

 me burrows of Andrena argentata. Smith, which I had previously only found on two 

 sandy spots on Chobham Common. I believe he found (though I did not) Nomada 

 alhoguttata, H.-S., parasitic upon it there as it is at Chobham, where I took both 

 species this year. It is, I think, rather interesting that these two rare species should 

 have lived together in the same burrows at Chobham for the last fourteen vears to my 

 knowledge, and probably much longer. — Id. 



Amblyteles notatorius, Gr., bred. — On July 10th last I bred a ? of Amblyteles 

 notatorius (Grr., Ich. Europ., i, p. 429) from a pupa of Triphmia fimbria, L. The 



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