Jg [January, 



recogiiisiable. Ceraslis vacciaii and spadicea, ami Pldui^ophora meticulusa were 

 numerous and fine, IScvpelosoma satellUia and Noctua C-niyrum, one example of 

 each, surely very late for the latter. But what I was most astonished at this 

 evening was to beat four half-grown larvae of Lycana argiolus into my umbrella, 

 and three of these have not yet changed to pupue. On the 1st instant I found a 

 small larva of Mamestra persicarlie on a cultivated variety of the sea buckthorn. 

 It is now about half grown, and feeding on Euoiiyinus. — GekvASE F. Matuew, 

 Dovercourt : November 14</t, 1902. 



New locality for Notodonta cucullinu. — Taking it all round tliis has been a 

 very poor year for autumnal larvae. I went to the woods on August 26th, and 

 after thrashing tlie oaks, &c. for about three hours only got one small larva of 

 Euryviene dolobraria, one Biston betularia. and two or three Halias prasinana, so 

 I gave it up as a bad job. But I beat a rather fresh-looking Tethea subtusa from 

 oak (near aspen), and saw Limenitis Sibylla on the wing — very late for both. 



On September 20th I went to the woods again, and beat for larvae with nearly 

 the same result — the ordinary autumnal species wei-e not to be had — and so, after 

 a couple of hours' work, having only obtained a few of Zerene aduxtata from 

 spindle, I thought I would give it up, when I passed a maple bush growing under 

 some oaks, and gave it a last despairing whack, when down fell a fine full fed larva 

 of N. cucullina, the first I have ever taken, and an insect new to this district. 

 This raised my spirits, and I beat all the maple bushes I came across for tlie next 

 hour, but did not get another. Of course this was very late for it, but now I know 

 it occurs here, I liope I may be able to find ova next July.— Id. 



Hymenoptera Aculeata at Woking on September 2Qth. — I started out in the 

 morning of the 2Gth ult., when the fog, which was very dense early, had cleared off, 

 leaving a nearly cloudless sky, and took a sweeping net with me in hopes of being 

 able to collect a few llemiptera. 1 was very much surprised on walking by the side 

 of a sandy bank facing south to see some specimens of Ammophila campestris 

 flying along just as they would in July. This called my attention to the bank, and 

 I noticed a Fompilus moving on it, and after a time I found numbers of fossorial My 

 menoptera running and flying about, but the difliculty was to catch them, the owner 

 having supported the bank by covering it over with galvanized iron netting. A Pom- 

 pilus is never an easy insect to catch, but when it has the opportunity of diving under 

 iron netting whenever it likes, it affords sport difficult enough for the most fastidious, 

 especially when one is only armed with a sweeping net. I spent two hours in 

 catching a vei'y few specimens, although there were really a great many about. As I 

 do not remember ever seeing so many fossorial species at such a late date I think it 

 may be of interest to record them. The following is a list of the species captured 

 and observed: — Fompilus {Evagetkes) bicolor, Lep., $,4, F. gibbus, P., $, 3, 

 Salius pusillus, Schiodtc, $ , 1, S. parvulus, Dhlb., $ , 1, Ceropales maculatus, P., 

 $ , Miscophus conculor, Dhlb. (common), Ammophila sabulosa, ^ $ , many, Crabro 

 Wesmaeli, ? , Diodonttts luperus, Shuck., ? . The following AnthopJnla also 

 occurred: — Colletes succincta, $, apparently quite fresh! llalictus leucozonius, 

 Schr., cJ > sonulus, Sm., S , 4, notatus, Kirb., <J , viUosulus, Kirb., <J, punctatissimus, 



