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Scottish Aculeates. — I am glad Mr. Malloch has called attention (Nov., 1900, p. 

 264) to Mr. Peter Cameron's Clydesdale record of Vespa arbor ea, Smith (now re- 

 garded as identical with Vespa aa-s^rjaea, Panzer), of which I was not previously aware. 

 Mr. Cameron, I find, has also recoi'ded Nomada flavoguttata from two localities in 

 Inverness-shire, namely, Q-len Shiel and Kingussie (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 

 ii, p. 294, and iii, p. 90), and I regret to see I have stupidly put Crahro chrysostomus 

 into the first part of my note (p. 265), instead of the second (for I was well 

 aware of Mr. Service's record in his Dumfries list), so that my records of these two 

 species also are not the first for Scotland. I am now able, however, to add to my 

 list Salius parvtdus, Dhlb., from Aberfoyle. Mr. Saunders' remarks (pp. 266-7) 

 on Sutherlandsbire examples of Passaloecus monilicornis have led me to re-submit 

 to him my supposed P. gracilis (which has, as he pointed out when he first saw it, 

 tlie labrum black, but the prothoracic tubercles white), and he now considers it a 

 variety of P. monilicornis. — William Evans, 38, Morningside Park, Edinburgh : 

 November 9th, 1900. 



Spathitis exaratus, L., parasitic on Anobium domesticum, Fourc. — Some six 

 years ago, when I was in Armagh, I found that Anobium domesticum had attacked 

 the suppoi-ting pillar of a large rosewood table that stood in my drawing room. I 

 applied carbolic acid to the burrows of the beetles, and the attack seemed to 

 cease. Last year Mrs. Johnson brought me a Braconid, and asked me if it would 

 be attacking the table, as tlie burrows were showing afresh, and she had caught 

 this insect running about on the pillar. My first impression was that the Braconid 

 was there by accident, but tlie appearance of others proved the reverse. We cap- 

 tured some, and I put them by, intending to make enquiries, but forgot all about 

 them till Mrs. Johnson brought me more specimens last month which she had caught 

 in the same place, viz., on the pillar of the table. I was convinced then that they 

 were attacking the Anobium, and not knowing anything about the tribe sent them 

 to Mr. E. Saunders, who very kindly forwarded them to Mr. Claude Morley, to 

 whom I am indebted for the determination of the species. As the creature was 

 doing BO good a* work I did not interfere further than to take the few specimens 

 referred to. It seems to enter the burrows of the Anobinm, but whether it attacks 

 the beetle or its larva of course I had no means of determining, as the table is quite 

 too valuable to excavate ; however, there are lots of Anobium, so perhaps I may get 

 an opportunity with some less valuable wood. — W. F. Johnson, Acton Glebe, 

 Poyntzpass : October 13th, 1900. 



Astatus stigma, Panz., and other Aculeate Hymenoptera, Sfc, on the Lincoln- 

 shire coast. — On June 30th last I spent a couple of hours in collecting Hymenoptera 

 and Diptera on the coast at Skegness ; the exact spot being a small expanse of 

 sandy ground, partly overgrown with bushes of sea-buckthorn {Hippopha'e rham- 

 noides) and maritime grasses, with a few tufts of bird's-foot trefoil {Lotus cornicu- 

 latus), &c., and situated immediately behind the aand-hills a few yards north of the 

 pier. Here the ground literally swarmed with Pompilus plumbeus, Fab., accompanied 

 by a few P. gibbus. Fab. ; and of rare species I took a fine male of Astatus stigma, 

 Panz., and two specimens of Tachytes unicolor, Panz. Flying about their burrows, 

 and visiting the flowers of the bird's-foot trefoil, were numbers of Megachile 



