100 [April, 



having been previously reeorrlerl from Co. Down. In the canal near Newry, but in 

 County Armagh, I found Ht^phiidriat ovatiis, L., to be quite eommon. Tn the same 

 locality I took a beautiful fresh specimen of Dnnaria rJavlpet, F., a new record for 

 Ulster, the beetle having only been met with in Roscommon and Clare previously. 

 This capture was made on June ■28th. On August 18th I took on a thistle flower 

 in one of my fields a single specimen of A ntheropTiarjus pallenii, Q-yll., its first capture 

 in County Armagh. I searched in vain on adjoining flowers for another, and 

 examined the bank near whore I found it for a nest of Bomhiis, but to no purpose. 

 Bombi, however, were not as numerous as usual, owing to the wet season. Tn the 

 latter end of September T had oecnsion to go out to a hayloft, and my attention was 

 at once drawn to the window which T saw to be covered with beetles. T took 

 samples and found Crt/ptophafiuf! xcnnicux fiwA l^Jnicmus transversus to ho ihe^ most 

 numerous; besides there were Stenus ximilis, Monotonia picipex, Conivomtis nodifer, 

 Gorticaria elonr/ata, Tt/pheea fnmata, Apion mibnlatum, A. vireni, Sfcinphilus 

 murlcafii.i, Hypera piincfnfa and Cpvlhorrht/ nchidmx iroglodytes. This gives some 

 idea of what may be in hay, but if T had been able to make a list of those that were 

 among my forced grass when thrashing it for seed, I should have had a much longer 

 one ; T was, however, too busy to do more thaji take a casual look at them, for grass 

 seed does not allow of delay, and we were literally working against time. Tn May 

 I met with Cilea silphoiden and Mister cadaverinun about a manure lienp, and 

 Lochma-a cratfpc/i on hawthorn. — W. F. Johnson, Acton Grlebe, Poyntzpass : 

 January ?ith, 1903. 



Notes on Tchnenmonidir. — T thought it was a well-known fact that AJomyia 

 was parasitic on the larva of Geofrnpe.t (rf. ante p. 28^ ; T have myself taken the 

 black var. (nir/ra) ovipositing in cow dung. The Tlcv. W. TCirby had the as- 

 sistance of both Stephens and Curtis in detertnining his TcIineunwnidfP.anc} T do not 

 think there is any mistake in his determination. Mr. Morley's Chalcid (/. r.) is most 

 probably Fjncyrtus xcntpJlarl.t ,T)n\m. TAnorernx mncrohntus preys probably upon 

 Odynerux as well as 'Rvmenex, as it occurs here. T foujid the sexes of the following 

 species: — Amhlytelea favocinptvx, TAvoeernx mncrohntiis, Cryptva elepans, Cryptvs 

 signatoriux, Vhytodietmt ornafna, CFldfiwop.iix .fcabrieiiJii.t. TTampshire is a county 

 of which the insect fauna (inclusive of the New Forest) has been very well woi-ked 

 up, and the "Victoria TTi story " gives by no means a fair re.tnme of the worl> that 

 has been done. For instance, T could have furnished a list of several hundred 

 lehnenmonidfe. — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : Fphrunry AtTi, 1903. 



Micromiis anfjidritu<<, fiteph., and a fpin oilier Neiirnpt.fira and Trichnpfern from 

 Oolvfind. — At the beginning of last August I had a few days' collecting nt Colvend, 

 in Ivirkcudbrightshire, a locality which was worked for two seasons many years ago 

 by the late Dr. Buchanan White. Unfortunately a bad and late season and bad 

 weath.er at the time of my two short visits did not help to show off the place to 

 advantage ; at the same time T am convinced that the district is an exceptionally 

 good one, and woidd, under more favourable circumstances, repay a longer period 

 of work. 



The only really noteworthy species taken was a single example of Micromvs 

 angulatus, Steph. (ajphidivorus). I was disappointed in not seeing one or two 



