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Scottish Aculeates. — With reference to Mr. A. A. Dalglisli'a interesting records 

 of Aculeate Uymenoptera in tlie West of Scotland, published in the January 

 number of tliis Magazine {ante p. 7), I would point out that Odynerus spiiu/ies, 

 L., and HaJictus tumulorum, L., arc both in Mr. T. M. McGregor's list of Perth- 

 shire Aculeate.i, published a number of years ago in the "Transactions of the 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science " (see vol. i, pp. 72, 105). The first-named 

 species had even then, however, been ten years on the Scottish list from Banffshire 

 (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc, Aberdeen, 1878, p. 47). In the Forth district I have taken 

 H. tumulorum in abundance at Dunbar and Longniddry. A record by Mr. Saunders 

 of Pompilus unguicularis, Thorns., from Golspie, appeared in this Magazine for 

 November last. — Id. : January 1th, 1901. 



Chrysis Ruddii, Shuck., in Scotland. — In June, 1893, I secured an example of 

 this Chrysid near Aviemore (Inverness-shire), and have since taken others at 

 Kinghorn and Inverkeithing (Fife), and Dunbar (East Lothian) ; identification 

 confirmed by Rev. F. D. Morice. I have not seen any previous record of the species 

 from Scotland. — Id. 



Bemhex rostrata, L., in Jer.^ey. — In answer to Mr. W. Evans' enquiry if 

 Bembex rostrata has ever been recorded from the Channel Islands, I may say that I 

 have never taken it in Guernsey, but the name occurs in a list of Jersey insects in 

 the collection of Mr. Piquet, named by the late Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S., in 

 1860. This list was published in Ansted and Latham's " Channel Islands" (2nd 

 Edit., 1865).— W. A. Luff, Mount Pleasant, Guernsey ; January, 1901. 



Diptera and NomadcB at HnUctus burrows. — On June 4th I visited a colony of 

 Halictus nitidiuseulus in the river bank at Bittoii, and caught seven of the little 

 bees as they entered or quitted the burrows. Three of these proved to be females 

 of the Halictus, and four were Nomada furva 9 . A number of grey flics were also 

 flying around the burrows, occasionally entering for a short distance, and on several 

 occasions I noticed that they backed into the hole "tail first." Whether this was 

 for oviposition I cannot tell, but it seemed like it. The Eev. E. N. Bloomfield very 

 kindly sent these flies to Mr. Verrall, who pronovmces them to be Phorbia albescens 

 and Phorbia impudica. The Aculeate.'! were kindly determined for me by Mr. E. 

 Saunders. 



When I visited the same colony on a previous occasion in August I found that 

 a large proportion of the Halicti were stylopized. These industrious little bees 

 seem much persecuted. — H. J. Chaebonniee, Redland, Bristol ; January, 1901. 



Further Note on the habits of Orochares angustatus, Er. — Apropos of Canon 

 Fowler's notice of the occurrence of an example of this insect in Britain (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxxvi, p. 286), the following note will interest British Colcoptcrists : — Dr. 

 H. Krauss and Dr. K. Poneckc (Wien. out. Zeit., 1900, p. 239) record the capture of 

 number of specimens at Marburg in December, 1899, in " frozen human excre- 

 ment." — G. C. Champion, Ilorsell, Woking : January dtk, 1901. 



