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to imbibe any "sweet secretion" which may have been exuding therefrom. 

 However, I must admit I have not made any careful observations on this last 

 point, as it has never strucli mo that the Bracouid might be doing other than 

 selecting a pabulum for her progeny. Again, it is quite possible that the 

 Aphidius may combine the pleasures of the " flowing bowl " with the ordinary 

 business of her life. Another Ilymenopteron frequently bred from Apliides is 

 AUotria victrix Westwood, which is said to be always a hyperparasite through 

 an Aphidius. Of this species Bignell also writes (/. c.) : " These small flies. 

 I observed, were paying great attention to these infested Aphides by constantly 

 applying their antennae to several parts of the body, and after ascertaining it 

 was a fitting subject, commencing to deposit their eggs within it." Here again 

 it will be noticed that the antennae are used in a similar manutr. — G. T. Ltile, 

 Briarfield, Shibdeu, near Halifax : October 6th, 1922. 



Phasmid larvae from Mount Everest. — Orthoptera collected by Dr. T. G. 

 Longstalf, of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1922, have been examined by me, 

 but they all proved to be, unfortunately, in larval stage. They include only 

 three small larvae of a short-horned grasshopper, Hypernephia everesti Uv., 

 described by me from the last year's collection of the Expedition * all taken at 

 the Mount Everest Base Camp, Upper Rombiik, Tibet, 1G,500 ft., May 1922, 

 and also three larvae of a Phasmid from the same locality. As the latter 

 larvae are very small (l-l mm. longj their identification is impossible, but I 

 am inclined to think that they belong to the genus Mene.vemis, which is 

 represented by several species in the Himalaya (Sikkim, Silhet), though none 

 of them is known to occur as far north as Tibet, while the altitude at which 

 these larvae have been taken beats all existing records of vertical distribution 

 of Fhusmidae — an essentially tropical family — by many thousands of I'eet.— 

 B. P. UvAROV, Natural History Museum, London, S.W. 7 : Oct. 'l-^th, 1922. 



Gymnetron squamicolle B.eitt. in Hants and Surrey. — For some time past 

 I have had several specimens of a Gymnetron set aside in my collection as 

 G. squamicolle lieitt., but I liave hesitated to record their capture till the 

 determination had been established with certainty. Tliis has now been 

 verified, Dr. Marshall having lent me a recently acquired co-type of Reitter's 

 species for comparison. G. squamicolle was added to the liritish list last year by 

 Mr. Donisthorpe (Irish Nat., Nov. 1921, p. 135, and Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1921, 

 p. Ixxxvi), on the authority of a specimen captured by himself at Glencar, 

 Co. Kerry, on June 6th, 1902. The five examples in my own collection were 

 each taken singly, by sweeping herbage in marshy places, the first in June 1871 

 at Brockenhurst, three at Woking in 1875, 1876, and 1878 respective)}', and 

 one at Wisley, in 1912 or 1913.— G. C. Champion, Horsell : October 1922. 



Sympetrum fonscolombii and other Drayonflies near London in October. — 

 When in London recently, Mr. Martin E. Mosely conducted me on October 1st 

 to Ruislip reservoir. The day was warm but with much cloud, and such sun- 

 shine as we had consisted of gleams of rather short duration and never 



* Ann. 83 Mag. Xat. Hist., Scr. 9, vol. is, \y. 0.51, IWl'^. 



