164 CJuly, 



evidently a later brood, as they were in fine condition, while a great proportion of 

 them taken in July were ragged. I was also impressed by the colour adaptation 

 exhibited by the Tachinid Mylocera carinifrons, Fin., which I found in some 

 numbers, July 8th, 1903, sunning on a larch trunk, there was a great similarity 

 between the colour of the fly and the lichen-covered bark on which they rested. 

 In July, 1903, I was fortunate to take 4 ^ and 1 ? of Hi/drotxa pilipes, Stein, a 

 species new to the British List, and the ? previously unknown ; it has been recorded 

 with a description of the ^ by Mr. Grimshaw in " Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.," July, 

 1904, page 158. Other species of the genus also occurred, viz., H. impexa, Lw., 

 several in 1903, and in numbers, but only in a limited area, June 30th, 1904. 

 ir. similis, Mde., was very common on bracken, &c., and R. palcestrica, Mg., 1 $ , 

 June 30th, 1904. Though Mr. Verrall gives similis, Mde., as a synonym of 

 palsestriea, they appear to be distinct. 



At Musselburgh Merodon equestris, F., was taken in my garden, while Chrj/so- 

 gaster splendens, Mg., Qymnochseta viridis, Fin. (sunning on trees), Mychophaga 

 fungorum, Deg. (on paling), Homalomyia manicata, Mg. («"» coit'O), H. incisu- 

 rata, Ztt., S. monilis, Hal., and Coelomyia mollissima, Hal., all occurred along the 

 banks of the Esk. Hydrotsea occulta, Mg., and H. armipes, F., were both common 

 on bramble leaves. On June 30th, 1904, I took a <J of Hylemyia prwpotens, W., a 

 fine species. 



At Aberlady I took, in June, Dolichopus clavipes, Hal. (one of the few locali- 

 ties given by Mr. Verrall for this species), and at Callander in September, Arcto- 

 phila mussitans, F., Rhamphomyia spinipes, Fin., and Liancalus virens, Scop. The 

 last was in some numbers on the sides of a bridge over a stream near Loch 

 Vennacher, and I was greatly interested in watching the antics of the ^ , as it raised 

 itself on its long legs, lowered its wings, each with a silvery spot at the tip, and 

 displayed itself before the ? in much the same way as do certain spiders. — A. E. J. 

 Caetee, 4, West Holmes Gardens, Musselburgh, N.B. : April 4th, 1905. 



BlEMINGHAM EnTOMOLOGICAI SOCIETY : April lOth, 1905. — Mr. Or. T. 

 Bethune-Bakee, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Rossiter was elected a Member of the Society. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain gave an account of some winter collecting he had had 

 recently, and said that he thought Entomologists ceased work too soon in the year 

 and began again too late. On December 2nd he saw at Sutton more moths than he 

 had ever seen befoi'e, chiefly Cheimatohia brumata, L., but also including Scopelo- 

 soma satellitia, L., and Orrhodia vaccinii, L. On March 4th he sugared at 

 Chelmsley Woods and the two last named species came in numbers. Mr. W. E. 

 Collinge showed Collembola ; Sminthurus malmgreni, Tulbb., a species new to 

 Britain from Knowle, and Lipiira ambulosa, L., from Solihull, where it occurred in 

 thousands, in connection with some cauliflowers suffering from " finger and toe " 



