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a male (332) ami a female (343) Little; a female (333) Walcott 1841; a female 

 (334) 31/5/42 (J. C), and May 31 1842 (J. C.) ; a female (33') Belfast T L, 42, 

 a blank green label, a printed label with " Sir C. R. Lighten " on one side and 

 " of St. John's " on the otlier ; a female (336) Norfolk July 1905 (C. W.) ; a male 

 (337) a blank blue label; a male (310) H, and zonata ; a male (341) 31/5/42 

 (J. C ), and Glanvilles Wootton (at side) ; a female (344) Whittlesea (J. C. red ink). 

 (335 and 336^ are of the form rvfescens ; while (342, 343) look a little like large 

 examples of A. pumilio. Amongst the specimens of the last named insect, 

 A.pumiiio, there are also two examples of this, the common species— a male (318) 

 Land : End .Aug. 1864 (C. W.) ; and a female (349) Cornwall. 



Agrion pumilio. — Omitting the two specimens of A. elegans (348, 349), there 

 are still fifteen representatives of this interesting little di-agonfly; but six males 

 (315, 346, 347, 354, 356, 358) are without history. The others are labelled as 

 follows :— a female (350) Land : End Aug. 1861 (C. W.), and Land's End (at side) ; 

 a female (351) New Fo. (J. C. red ink), and New Forest (at side) ; two females 

 (352, 355) and two males (357, 360) 1842 (J. C ) ; a female (353) 1842 (J. C), and 

 Dorchester (at side) ; a male (359) with three labels, July 3, 1844 (J. C. filled in), 

 pumilio, and New Forest (at side) ; a female (361) also with three labels, Holnest 

 (J. C), Aug. 1809 (filled in), and Glanvilles Wootton (at side). (350, 351, 352) 

 are of the form aurantiacum. 



28, Knight's Park, 



Kingston-on-Thames : 



March 1st, 1909. 



BOMBI AND OTHER ACULEATES COLLECTED IN 1908 IN THE 

 BERNER OBERLAND BY THE REV. A. E. EATON, M.A. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S., (fee. 



Whilst staying at Grimmialp in July, and at Interlaken in 

 August, last summer, the Eev. A. E. Eaton made a sample-selection 

 for me of Aculeate Rymenoptera, carefully recording the altitudes 

 at which the specimens were captured. The following is a short 

 account of the collection, mention being made of many species 

 that are not in any way rarities for the sake of these records of 

 elevation of sites. 



An observation that I think will be of interest to readers of 

 our Magazine is noted by Mr. Eaton concerning a habit of the 

 male of Bomhus mendax. I do not remember to have seen elsewhere 

 recorded anything of the kind in connection with an insect of this 

 genus. Quoting the entry on the pin-labels of specimens " 27.vii.08, 

 Stand. Alt. GlOO to 6.300 ft.," he writes : — " by the track leading 

 from Seeberg Alp to Stand, near the part marked on the Grimmialp 

 Hotel Exkursions Karte 1925 m., time of capture 4 to 4.30 p.m. 



