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men, which was confirmed as O. .tparsus by H. Brisout. The New Forest insect 

 agrees with tlie one in the Power collection, and as Mr. Newbery has stated (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xl, p. 134) that the latter was only a small form of O. ilicis, F., 

 Messrs. C. O. and E. A. Waterhouse and I hare carefully examined it, and we came 

 to the conclusion that this was not the case. Furthermore, I obtained a specimen 

 of O. sparsus from the Continent which agrees with the two examples in question. 

 They differ from O. ilicis in their much smaller size, narrower and less ovate shape, 

 less developed posterior femora, &e. The insect is less pubescent and much less 

 variegated, and thus it looks blacker, and there is a trace of a band on the elytra. 

 There is a row of short very inconspicuous teeth on the posterior femora in 

 0. sparsus, whereas there is one larger one in the middle of the others in O. ilicis, 

 but in this the latter appears to vary. — Horace Donistuorpe;, 58, Kensington 

 Mansions, S.W. : December, 1904. 



Meligethes obsciirns, Er., in the Isle of Man, loilh notes on the flotoers which it 

 frequents. — I met with tliis species in some numbers on June 28th, 1903, in a lane 

 on the slopes of the Carnanes just above Scolaby, about 500 feet above sea level, 

 occurring in the following flowers : — Jasione montana, Potentilla reptans, and 

 Hypochnris radicnta. At Perwick Bay, on October 2nd, 1903, I met with a few 

 specimens in flowers of Taraxacum dens-leonis. During the present year the 

 species has been abundant, occurring cliiefly in flowers of Jasione montana growing 

 by the sides of lanes and roads on the Carnanes, between 300 and 500 feet above 

 sea level, on various dates between tlie Kith and ■i3rd of July. It was also 

 abundant at Perwick Bay by general sweeping at the base of the cliffs from June 

 9th to July 7th. A few specimens occurred on Bradda Hill, July 10th, 1904, at a 

 height of 300 feet, in flowers of Hypochaeris radicata, and four were captured 

 in this flower at Spaldrick Bay, October 6th, 1904. Jasione montana is apparently 

 the flower in this locality to wl-.ich Meligethes obscurus, Er., is specially attached, 

 but although the plant is common and widely distributed the beetle only occurs in 

 certain localities, but when present it is often abundant, as many as five or six 

 specimens being taken in one flower head. 



The males (ilfe/i^e/Aes /la^ma^w, Er.), easily distinguished by the enormously 

 dilated anterior tarsi, are less common than the females in the proportion of about, 

 one to three. — J. Harold Bailey, Port Krin, Tsle of Man : December 'Srd, 1904. 



Aculeate irymenoptera at Lytne Regis. — I again visited Lyme Regis this year 

 during the month of July, and secured the following additions to my list in the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (1904, p. 13) -.—Formica riifa, Linn., Tetramorium cxspitum, Linn , 

 Leptothorax tiiherum. Fab., race unifasciata, Latr., Saliiis exaltatus, Fab., Calivur- 

 gus hyaliiiaius. Fab., Diodontux minutus, Fab., Passalcecus gracilis, Curt., Nyson 

 trimaculatus, Eossi, dimidiatus, Jur., Didineis lunicornis. Fab., Crabro palmipes, 

 Linn., varius, Lep , Odynerus spinipes, Jjinu., pictus. Curt., Prosopis dilatata, Kirb., 

 communis, Kirb., cow/asa, Nyl., Sphecodes gibbus, Linn., subquadratus, Sm., Halictvs 

 rubicundus, Chr., leucozonius, ISchr., cyUndricus, Fab., Andrena rosas, Panz., ni- 

 groienea, K\rh., fuse ipes, Kirb., denticulata, Kirh., hattorfiana, Fah., chrysosceles, 

 Kirb., analis, Panz., lucens, tmh., albicrus, Kirb., nana, Kirb., Cilissa leporina, 

 Panz., Nomada alternata, Kirb., ochrostoma Kirb., fabriciana, hmn.,ft<rva, Panz., 



