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Hymenoptera and Hemiptera at ITartbig, Sussex. — Amongst some insects sent 

 to me by Mr. A. Beaumont to name, I think the following are wortli recording, as 

 Harting is a locality in which few entomologists have worked. Leptothorax acer- 

 varum, Fab., Tapinoma erratica, Latr., Plociomerus fracticollis, Schill., Corlzus 

 maculatus, Fieb., CymxKS melanocephalus, Fieb. — E. Saundees, Woking : Novem- 

 ber 2bth, 1899. 



A striking instance of neural variation in a Psocid. — I hare elsewhere (p. 7) 

 in this No. alluded to the frequent examples of abnormal neural structure in Psocids. 

 A remarkable specimen exists in Mr. Briggs' collection. The insect is certainly a 

 CcBcilius (and probably C. ohsoletus, Steph.), but in both anterior wings the "area 

 postica" is absent, so that on this character it is a Perlpsocus ; the neuration of one 

 side is otherwise abnormal, but the wings are fully developed. — R. McLachlan, 

 Lewisham : December, 1899. 



Hemerobius limbatellus in Surrey. — I recently took an opportunity of asking 

 Mr. K. J. Morton's opinion of a Hemerobius included doubtfully among the series 

 ■of H. subnebulosus in Mr. Wormald's collection. Mr. Morton returned it as H. 

 limbatellus, an opinion since confirmed by Mr. McLachlan. The specimen was 

 beaten from spruce fir at Leith Hill, Surrey, on June 6th, 1869, and is the second 

 recorded British specimen, the other {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. ii, vol. x, p. 152) having 

 been taken at Black Park June 25th, 1873. — C. A. Bkiggs, Rock House, Lynmouth : 

 December 1th, 1899. 



Local and rare Diptera taken in the New Forest, 1899. — The past season was, 

 as regards weather, very similar to that of 1898, and Diptera were again scarce. I 

 was fortunate enough, however, to take the following, in addition to most of the 

 species mentioned in my general list last year (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxv, p. 95). 

 Ceroplatus sesioides, Whlbg. (1), Epiphragma picta, F. (1), Stratiomys potamida, 

 Mg. (1), Dioctria Reinhardi, W. (1), Anthrax Jlava, Mg. (4), A.fenestrata, Fin. 

 (8), Thereoa anyiulata, F. ( cj com.) , Pipunculus sylvaticus, Mg. (2), Syrphns grossu- 

 ■laricB, Mg. (2), Catabomba pyrastri, L., var. iinicolor (1), Sphegina clunipes. Fin. 

 i(l), Mallota eristaloides, Lw. (5), Callicera cBnea,J^. (1), Macronychia agrestis. Fin. 

 {1), Gastrophilus equi, F. (1), Tricopthicus semipellucidus, Ztt. (2), Amanrosoma 

 fasciata, Mg. (16), NeoUiophilum prteustum, Mg. (1), Dorycera graminum, F. (3), 

 and Urellia stellata, Fuessl. (1). [From the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield I also received 

 (alive) a nice series of Tephritis bardancB, Schk., bred from heads oi Arctium lappa 

 found in Norfolk, and he also sent me some galls of Ceutaurea nigra, from which I 

 obtained six Urophora solstitialis, L.]. I arranged ray summer visit to Lyndhurst 

 especially for M. eristaloides and C. cenea, and arrived on June 22nd last just as the 

 wild roses and Portugal laurels were coming nicely into bloom, but did not see 

 either species until the 28th, on which day I took two 3Iallota in Brick Kiln En- 

 closure. The following day I went to Rhinefields, and found that since my last 

 visit the beautiful rhododendrons had been woefully thinned and hacked about, 

 many being chopped down to the ground, and the remainder cut back to a formal 

 line behind the ditch on each side of the drive. It will be many years before the 

 shrubs recover from this rough treatment, and it seemed almost adding insult to 



