9QO [October, 



JS'onayria anindineta Schmidt m Yorkshire. — The Eev. Cyril D. Ash, of 

 Saxton Vicarajre, Tadcasti^r, asks me to record that he has this }ear found a 

 colony of Nonayria arundineta in a locality in Lower Wharfedale. The uiehmic 

 variety disso/uta Treit. also occurred with the type form. This species is a tine 

 and unexpected addition to the list of Yorksliire Lepidoptera. — Gko. T. 

 I'oRBiTT, Elm Lea, Dalton, Iluddersfield ; September IWi., 1920. 



A second British specimen of Pseitduphloeiis umltli II.-S. — The first 

 record of tliis Coreid Ileteropteron, -which Saunders in 1892 did not consider 

 likely to occur with us, will be found in Ent. Mo. Mag. 1902, p. 80. It occurred 

 " at the roots of grass in a very dry place " at West Walton, some twelve miles 

 I'rom King's Lynn in Norfolk ; presumably on or near the coast of the erstwliile 

 Fen Sea, now far inland. iNIr. Thouless does not say that it was upon sand ; 

 if it Avere so, the sand would be of tlie same formation as the sand of the 

 celebrated " Breck " district, whicli bounded the same sea a little further south 

 and is post-glacial — that is to say, depo.sited after the boulder-clay, whereof 

 tlie central parts of East Anglia are constituted. But in collecting along tlie 

 east coast of this province, 1 have found the very great majority of insects to 

 affect the sandy districts with utter indifference as to their pre- or post-glacial 

 formation. Many species are found in Suffolk nowhere outside the Brandon 

 area of sand, except upon simil;ir crag-nreas along its east coast. Hence the 

 occurrence of the present species upon the latter formation on the south side of 

 the Yare estuary (included in Uutt's most useful " Waveney Valley in the 

 Stone Age," 1905) was remarkable rather for the rarity of the insect than for 

 the locality at which it was found. This was beneath Erodiwn cicutarium 

 (the same plant harbouring P. falleni, which Chitty and I took commonly at 

 Ih-andon in August, 190H, and I have also found it at both Tuddenham and 

 AVordwell in that area early in June) on crag sand by a rough cart-track 

 between the Green Hills and l!onnd Hills, immediately north of Caldecott Hall 

 in Fritton, Suffolk, on May 19th, 1919. I had placed it as an aberrant 

 P. falleni, till Mr. E. A. Butler kindly indicated the distinction. With it were 

 several of the spring insects found in the Breck district, such as Cardiophoriis 

 asellus and Philopedon f/eminntus. There may have been further specimens : 

 1 wanted no P. falleni, so gave the spot little more than a cursory examina- 

 tion. — Cladde MoRLEY, Monks' Soham House, Framlingham : Atii/ust 

 27th, 1920. 



A note on the life-history of SarcoplxHja cai'naria L. — A friend of mine 

 from Derbyshire recently sent me some dipterous pupae that he had found in the 

 ])uparia of Saturnia pavonia-minor L. (*S'. carpini Schiff.). Three of these 

 have hatched out and prove to be Sarcophaija carnaria L. This is interesting, 

 as Schiner (Fauna Austriaca, Diptera, vol. i, p. 508) thinks it doubtful 

 whether Sarcophitgae are ever true parasites, but only feed upon the larvae 

 or pupae of insects that have died from other causes. Sarcophaf/ae have been 

 reared from Locusts and from two or three species of Tinea, and Exorista 

 grandis Ztt. has been bred from Saturnia jiavonia-minor by several entomo- 

 logists. — IIkrbkrt BrRY, Lomber Hey, High Lane, Cheshire; August 27th, 

 1920. 



Sepsis cynipsea L. sioarming on ash. — Wliile walking through Leigh 

 AVoods, near Bristol, on August Slst, I noticed countless thousands of the 



