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I have no doubt 7'. austriaca is a fairly common insect in many other parts of 

 Scotland. Besides the Scottish records mentioned in Messrs. Carpenter and Pack- 

 Beresford's paper, there are Trail's for Deo (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Aberdeen, 1878, 

 p. 46), and Dale's for Skye (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1882, p. 257). 



I may mention that I have found several underground nests of V. sylvestris in 

 this district.— William Evans, 38, Morningside Park, Edinburgh : Oct. lUh, 1903. 



Nomada gutlulata, Schenck, at Gosfield, Essex. — A single (^ example of this 

 rarity was captured by me on May 23rd, 1903. This is, I believe, the third record 

 of the capture of this species during the past season.— A. Beaumont, Gosfield: 

 November 6th, 1903. 



Nomada guttulata, Schenck, in South Devon. — For several seasons past my 

 friend Mr. A. E. Iloldaway, of Newton Abbot, has kindly sent me various insects 

 taken by him in the above district. Among these was a Nomada captured on May 

 16th, 1901, an insect which I thought at the time must be N. ochrostoma, Kirby. 

 When, however, I came to study the genus critically in the course of last winter I 

 found that, in spite of a strong resemblance, the specimen differed from that species. 

 I have recently sent it to Mr. Ed. Saunders, who identifies it as N. guttulata, 

 Schenck, ^ , " a very large specimen, nearly twice the normal size." I am indebted 

 to ray friend Mr. Iloldaway for the specimen, which thus adds a most interesting 

 species of great rarity to the fauna of the county. — A. H. Hamm, 22, Southfield 

 Koad, Oxford : October, 1903. 



The Dalean Collection.— 1 am glad to say that I have secured ray father's 

 collection of foreign insects, and my late brother's own collection of British, and that 

 they are at Glanvilles Wootton. In addition to those already recorded in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., sxxix, p. 256, the following are in my brother's collection, all taken by himself. 

 Agrion pumilio, Land's End, August, 1864 ; Nothochri/sa capitata, 1864 and 1865 ; 

 Diplodoma marginepunctella, G. Wootton, June 8th, 1865 ; Aplota palpeJIo, G. 

 Wootton, August 12th, 1869 ; Xyela pusilla, 'Houvnemowth, May 1st, 1867; Sci- 

 apteryx coslalis. Burning Cliff, April 25th, 1865. — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : 

 October 22nd, 1903. 



Symbiotes latus, Redt., tja-., at Oosfield, Essex. — On September 15th I took 

 three Symbiotes latus, Redt., from a blown down elm, and I have to thank Mr. E. 

 A. Newbery for determining the species. On the same day, when searching under 

 bark of silver fir, a fine female Sirex juvencus crawled out, the first I have seen 

 here. We have S. gigas in abundance. — A. Beaumont, The Cottage, Gosfield, 

 Halstead, Essex : October IQth, 1903. 



Rare Hemiptera at Oosfield, Essex. — Although the past season has not been 

 favourable for collecting, I have met with the following species in my neighbourhood 

 in addition to the Corizus hyalinus described above by Mr. Saunders. Monanthia 

 angustata, H.-S., one specimen by sweeping. May 2nd, 1903 ; this I believe has only 

 once occurred previously in Britain, viz., at Cisbury, near Worthing, where Mr. 



