244 



[October, 



^„^ ffi • ' *r««/t*.— It 18 my firm conviction that Dipterists do not 



pay sufficient attention to the "basking flies " i « tl.^c ^.■ x ^ 



„ 1 , i^<i»jiiiig nies, I. e., those which love to sun them- 



2?8 r,,';; ■ °r . ■?""■ '" ^''"'' ^'^^ '-■* ^"'- "»• *'>«■■ '"-. ^^^ 



R ;, w , *■ "'^ "^ "^ "P^f'io". it had not again occurred to me i„ 



Bent e. Wood., though that it i. there to be fouud i. tnore L„ p„»b,e Whi 



«1 thee.„pt,o,,perhap.of the la.t mentioned, i„ the .paee of about h.,f .„ 

 hour _^.J.o reHcula,,,, L... whioh wa. just then abundant throughout the 

 wood,. Ma.,..r,i, ,„■„», Fin., &o™<. Mia. Hn., e„„n,o„l,, 1 .It 

 Mgn on Apr,l 26th , £. ,....*»., z,tt., two or three , ^..,W>;»„ ,,; ' 



?, unn.n,ed by Dr. Meade, Lo.cK.a ,a,i.ali., Flu., two or thrce.-CLitr^; 

 MOBLET, Ipswioh : SepUmler, 1900. 



IHml'tcM Z""'"'^""' -'^^*^'-»»'i-«?— In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for 

 from a rva of M.„.stra ,„.icari., and e.pre..e, hi, doubt, becau.e he wa. 



under the .mpreasion that no Sjrphid ha. ,et proved to be p.ra.,.ic o„ Lepido- 

 plerous larvae. ' -i^epiuo 



C«. J 'T' '""r'' 'r'' "'' "''' ''"' ''^"P^" '^^ ^'^^ '^^"^--''' but common, 

 .ata,o..la,yrasr^, L., thus parasitic. Last autumn I received from Mr. Claude 

 Money a crippled specimen which a friend had bred from a pupa of Plusia iota ■ 

 and this summer he sent me, from Southwold, several larv. of different species' 

 asking If I could tell him what they were. Two or three at once spun up a^d 

 became pup. and to my surprise in about a fortnight two specimens of C. Zastri 

 were disclosed ; the empty pup. cases giving indubitable proofs that they had 

 proceeded from them. -^ ^ 



The larv. were most probably Plusia gan^ma, and were at that time very 

 abundant at the foot of the cliffs at Southwold.-E. N. B.oompikld, Guestlin^ 

 Eectory : September IQth, 1900. ^uestang 



JY^'I'Y' "f '-^-^--^^« TopograpMe .on Regen.lnrg :" a Mnt to students 

 of Colernbolc. ^l.ere exists a work in three small volumes (a copy of which T have 

 long had),byDr.A.L.Farnrohr,with the assistance of specialLs. published 

 Eegensourg in 1838 (vol. i). 1839 (vol. ii), and 1840 (vol. iii). The first vol may 

 be considered histoncal, meteorological and geological ; the second is botanical and 

 bears a second title in Latin, "Flora Eatisbonensis - the third is zoological and 

 bears the Latin title, " Fauna Eatisbonensis." I. this third volume the Insect are 

 catalogued by Herrich-Soh.ffer, who enumerates all Orders. In several Orders and 

 especially Hymenoptera and Diptera, many species are indicated by nan.e only but 

 with the indication that they are ne.. If these names have been overlooked no 

 harm has been done : tUey are names only. But in the Tkysanura (divided into 

 Z.;,..a..<^. and Po.^«W..) the position is more serious. I find enumerated 50 

 species, of which 37 appear to be new, each characterized by a more or less ex- 



