6 [January, 



postmedian line is broadly interrupted beneath costa. I think these 

 differences are sufficiently marked to deserve a name, and suggest 

 liOLOTOXA. The locality was a steep grassy slope at the foot of 

 dolomite rocks : I noted all the flowers I saw during my tour, 

 and observed no Scutellaria there or elsewhere ; T doubt whether it 

 occurs so high up. 



Elmswood, Marlborough : 



November SOth, 1902. 



NOTE ON HYPOCEALCIA GEILIANII, Staud., AND ITS SYNONYMY. 

 BY E. METRICK, B.A., P.Z.S. 



Early in August last I was fortunate in taking a fresh specimen 

 of this species (which appears to be very scarce in collections) in a 

 meadow at an elevation of 5,000 feet near Gossensass, on the south 

 side of the Brenner Pass, Tyrol. I take the opportunity to point out 

 that in my judgment, lujneUa, Ilein., is referable to this species (the 

 description of Ghilianii, Staud., was not published until later), and 

 not to fjriseoceneella, Kag., to which it is referred by Ragonot and 

 Staudinger on the assumption that it is identical with lignella of 

 Eversmann and Herrich-Sehaffer, which is, I think, really the 

 same as griseowneeUa. The name UgneUa, Hb., is now assigned by 

 Staudinger to melaneUa. The matter is chiefly of interest in regard 

 to geographical range ; if I am correct in my opinion, then Ghilianii 

 is confined to S.E. Europe, whiht (/riseoceneella is Asiatic. 



Elmswood, Marlborough : 



November 28th, 1902. 



ODYNERUS (HOPLOPUSJ SIMILLIMUS, Moe., A WASP NEW TO 

 THE BRITISH LIST. 



BT EDWARD SAUNDERS, P.R.S. 



This most interesting addition to our British fauna has been 

 discovered by Mr. W. II. Harwood in the neighbourhood of Colchester ; 

 he took a single ^ last year, and his son has this year taken a few of 

 both sexes, on flowers, near a ditch, on the marshes. It was originalh' 

 described by Morawitz, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., iv, p. 138 (ISGG) from 

 Russia, without any exact locality, but in Vol. sxix (1895) of the 

 same journal he quotes as localities for it, Charkov, Kasan, Sareiita, 

 Orenburg, Irkutsk. Saussure's description of his alhopictua also 

 agrees closely with our insect, but he does not mention the tubercles 

 on the melapleura^, and his locality (I'ile de Rhodes) is so far south 



