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Another Xylophasia zollikofcri, Frr., in Yorkshire. — Two (i;xys ago I received 

 for deteruiiuiition from Mr. John T. Wigin a large Noctua, which he took on 

 August 12th last, at Mtjthley, a village some seven miles east of Leeds and of 

 Wakefield. I saw at once that it was a good male specimen of Xyloijhasia 

 zolliko/eri of the same form as the Norwich example exhibited at the meeting 

 of the Entomological Society of London on October 5th last, but more strongly 

 marked than the previous Yorkshire example, which was taken at Middlesbrough 

 by Mr. T. A. Lofthouse in September, 1903. The date of Mr. Wigin's moth is 

 some five or six weeks earlier than that of any of the previous British captures, 

 which px-obably accounts for its being in better condition, so far as I remember, 

 than were any of the three specimens I have seen out of the four previous 

 captures in Britain. It shows, too, that the species mixst have a flight extending 

 over nearly two months. — Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield : 

 Decemher lOth, 1910. 



Note on Halcsus guttatipennis, McL. — On the 4th of this month, when my 

 friend, Mr. William Evans, and I were walking along the banks of the River 

 Tyne near Ormiston in East Lothian, we found a niunber of Halesus g^dtati- 

 pennis — a new locality for this late autvimnal caddis-fly, and the second known 

 locality in the Forth area. Females wei'e present in the proportion of three to 

 one male. The only other Caddis-fly seen was Chmtopteryx villosn. Perlidas 

 were represented by numerous examples of Leuctra hlapalelci — both sexes. 

 Psocidse were not looked for, but a specimen of Elipsocus ahietis was beaten 

 from yew. 



With regard to H. guttatipennis, the two Forth localities are quite widely 

 separated, and one cannot help thinking that the species is likely to prove of 

 very wide distribution, perhaps even more general than H. auricollis, and 

 that the usually late date of its appearance causes it to be overlooked, 

 Mr. Martin E. Mosely has just sent me an example from Dovedale, where it 

 occuiTed towards the end of last month in small nxunbers, mixed with the 

 , more abundant H. auricollis. It is, of course, well known from Yorkshire, and 

 is also recorded from Wilts and Gloucestershire. It may, however, be worthy 

 of mention that Mr. Mosely has sent me the species from several other localities 

 and at very different dates, namely, from the Itchen below Winchester in 

 October and December ; on the Lambourne at Newbury in October ; and on 

 the Test at Mottispont, near Romsey, in October, December, and January. — 

 K. J. Morton, 13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : November 18th, 1910. 



s^j A few more Irish Ichneumonidie. — Irish notes are so scanty in respect 

 to the Hymenoptera, that the following are certainly worthy of mention, in 

 addition to those I have already brought forward (c/. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1902, 

 p. 54; 1907, p. 159; 1908, p. 276; and Irish Nat., 1903, p. 68). These were 

 captured by Mr. J. N. Halbert, of the Dublin Museum, mostly on expeditions 

 organized by the Royal Irish Academy Fauna and Flora Committee. They are 

 all conspicuoiis insects, some of considerable rarity in England, though in tlie 

 present case found only in single examples. Protichneumon fuscipennis, 



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