O'Tfi [December, 



Clytits arciiatus L. in Nolfs and Lines. — In reference to Mr. W. W. 

 Fowler's remarks on recent captures of this beetle, it may be of interest to 

 l<now that I caught a specimen in a timber-yai-d in Nottingham on July 13th, 

 1914. A Nottingham entomologist has since taken a specimen in Lincolnshire. 

 —.1. W. Saunt, 53 Enfield Road, Stoke, Coventry : October I8th, 1922, 



Acanthoc'ums aedilis Linn, in Inverness- shire. — I think it is worth while 

 to record the capture of a specimen of Acanthocinus aedilis Linn., S, on 

 September 10th, 1922, by my friend, R. H. Style, of Boxley House. He 

 was walJdng- from one shooting-butt to another at Phones, Newtonmore, 

 luvei ne.ss-shire, N.B., and noticed this beetle on the arm of a loader. He was 

 struck by the great length of the antennae, and sent the specimen down to me. — 

 Rkv. .Ta aies R. Hat.e, Boxley Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent : September ^Ith, 

 1922. 



Seitzs " Macrolepidoptera of the World." — The publication of this im- 

 portant work is now making rapid progress, about four parts of the "Exotics" 

 being sent out per month by the present publisher, Mr. C Kerneu of Stutt- 

 gart, Germany. The Palaearctic section has been completed in 130 parts 

 (each part contains eight pages of text and two coloured plates, or 16 pages 

 and one plate, price 25. per part) ; the Exotic section is estimated to include 

 about 500 parts, 261 of which have been issued. — Eds. 



Hynienoptera and Aphides. — In the August number of this Magazine 

 Mr. Butler records that he observed on a rose-bush a small Hymenopteron 

 stroking and tickling with its antennae the body of an Aphis, and in the 

 October number Mr. Donisthorpe suggests that the Ilj'menopteron was en- 

 deavouring to " milk '" the Aphis in the same manner as that employed by ants 

 when obtaining "honey dew" from plant-lice. On several -occasions I have 

 watched Braconids of the genus Aphidins genth' touching with their antennae 

 the bodies of Aphides, sometimes continuing the process for several minutes, 

 the attention being apparently unwelcome ; but I h.ave always considered the 

 proceeding to be preparatory to oviposition by the Braconids. Indeed, I once 

 saw the ovipositor plunged into the body of the host when the latter was 

 raised iu the manner described by Mr. Butler, but cannot recollect whether 

 any lengthy preparatory " tickling " took place on that occasion. The late 

 G. C. Bignell, in Trans. Devon Association for Advancement of Science,, etc. 

 1901, xxxiii. p. 663, records as follows: — " The attack of the Perilitus on the 

 ladybird is similar to that which the Aphidius adopts when she deposits her 

 egg in the aphis ' green fly ' that infests roses and other plants. Aphidius, 

 after examining the aphis with her antennae and finding that it is not occupied 

 by another, at once proceeds to business by thrusting the abdomen forward 

 between her l^gs so as to project beyond the head ; the abdomen and terebi-a 

 are extended so as to reach about the middle of the ventral sutures of the 

 aphis." I will not go so far as to say I think Mr. Donistliorpe's theory is 

 wrong, although I have never noticed the Hymenopteron, when tapping or 

 stroking the aphis, place its mouth-parts near enough to the body of the latter 



