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Witli regfird to Pxi/<-/iij/)si.i iiiiii/ica we are told {p. 3H7) that "A living fVmale 

 was sent, to me by a corrcspuiuleiil at. Muswellbrook, wliieli while in transit laid 

 tiiree bright greon oval eggs. These were jilaeed in a glass jar, and three weeks 

 later two hatched out, and the larvae were found crawling about trying to escape. 

 When placed in a watcli glass with soinr larval psyllids and ajihides, they immedi- 

 ately seized these with their long mandibles and soon sucked them dry, the fluid 

 running up the hollow jaws being easily observable with a lens. In spite of every 

 care both larvae tlied within a few weeks." Here again the aspect is very distinctly 

 Homerobiid. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : June, 1903. 



Notozus Panzeri, Fab., and its probable Hosts.— \\\ a former number of this 

 Magazine (September, 1900) I suggested that the (Jiirysid Notozus Panzeri, Fab., 

 was pi-obably parasitic on a Mimesa. My suspicion has been strengthened by later 

 observations, and now almost amounts to a certainty. In June last year I found 

 at Lyndhurst a regular colony of iMhnesa Shuckardi extending along the sides of a 

 sandy path. The $ ^ were countless, the ? ? less abundant, but still fairly plen- 

 tiful — many of them were pairing, others commencing to form their burrows, but I 

 did not see any carrying prey. 



I watched this settlement for several days, and during the whole time Notozus 

 Panzeri simply swarmed all along it. I am sure I could have taken hundreds every 

 day had I desired to do so, but two or three sweeps of my net — taking a dozen or 

 so each time — more than contented me. I cannot say that I actually saw a 

 Notozus enter a Mimesa burrow : probably the latter were not suiliciently advanced 

 to invite the parasites' attacks But the simultaneous occurrence of the two insects 

 in such extraordinary numbers all along a considerable sti-etch of ground, where 

 hardly any other Hymenoptera were to be found, can hardly have been accidental. 



I have since observed the Notozus at Woking and Wisley in tolerable 

 abundance, and have always found it accompanied by numerous specimens of 

 some Mimesa, not however ^Shuckardi, but eque.itris at Woking, and bicolor at 

 Wi.sley. In these cases, however, both insects were visiting umbellifers, and I could 

 not find the burrows of the Jiiwesa, though they were doubtless hard by. I should 

 have liked to investigate the matter further; but as I soon after went out of 

 England I was obliged to postpone it to another season. This year I hope I may 

 succeed in getting further evidence on the subject ; in the meantime I would suggest 

 to collectors who know of places haunted by Mimesa that they should be on the 

 look out for Notozus. Besides N. Panzeri there is another very similar species {N. 

 productus, Dalilb.), which has not yet been recorded from Britain, but which is 

 quite likely to occur here. — F. D. Mokice, Brunswick, Woking : June Y\ih, 1903. 



tSaw-Jlies from Jersey. — Mr. riaunders has kindly given me the following Saw- 

 flies, which he has taken during the last few weeks at St. Brelade's, Jersey. Though 

 all the species occur in Britain, and none can be called actual rarities, tliey may be 

 worth recording for the sake of their locality. All the specimens are $ $ . Allantus 

 vespa, Retz. {= 3-cinctus), Pristiphora jiallidiventris. Fall., Blennocampa affinis. 

 Fall, {^^^assimi/is), Helandria stramineipes, Klug, Atkalia spinarum, Fab., Emphytus 



