180 THE F.XT()>rOT.O(;TST's RECORD. 



species, llejnaris fiicifoniiis, is common at Newball and Skellingthorpe 

 woods near Lincoln, and is also found in some numbers at Hartsholme, 

 all near Lincoln, but that the scabious species, H. titi/us, so far as my 

 experience goes, is found only at Newball, and that rarely. Cartero- 

 ci'p/ialiis palaeiiKDt, is always found with them at Skellingthorpe and 

 Newball, but never at Hartsholme, the reason being that the two 

 former localities are on clays (Oxford and Lias), and the latter on 

 gravels (old bed of Trent). Lincoln entomologists (Messrs. J. Musham 

 and C. Arnold) would I thini\ verify. — W. D. Carr, Sandhurst, 

 Oaklands Road, Wolverhampton. April ^it/i, 1902. 



My records of Hcmaris fKcifurmin (referred to antca, p. 112), 

 certainly l)elong to the narrow-bordered species, i.e., II . titi/xs. At 

 Salkeld we net the imagines as they fly to patches of a small red 

 flower, to feed at the blossoms, which they do, somewhat similarly to 

 Si'sia sti'llatarinii, when on the wing ; if once missed they are very bad 

 to follow ; the exact locality is a grouse moor known as Wan Fell. 

 At Orton they come to the thistle flowers and are not so common as at 

 Wan Fell. — G. Wilkinson, 55, Trinity Buildings, Wigton Road, 

 Carlisle. April 11th, 1902. 



Your note {anUa p. 112) on the beehawks is of interest, and 

 I may say that the only species which has been found in Cumber- 

 land is the narrow-bordered species, the scabious feeder, H. 

 bombijlifuniiis, Esp. This is the species Mr. Wilkinson records from 

 Orton and Salkeld, not the broad-bordered honeysuckle feeder as stated 

 in your note (p. 112). I suppose the confused nomenclature of the 

 two species is the cause of the error. I have seen a good number of 

 Cumberland captured beehawks, extending back for nearly iO years, 

 and all have been the narrow-bordered species, and no one to my 

 knowledge has had any different experience in this county. — F. H. 

 Day, F.E.S., 6, Currock Terrace, Carlisle. A}ml 18th, 1902. 



Note on Leptothorax nylanderi, Foerst. — In my notes on the 

 British myrmecophilous fauna {Etit. Pururd, vol. xiv., p. 16), I quoted 

 what Mr. F. Smith wrote about Leptothorax lu/landeri [Ent. Ann., 

 1868, p. 94) : "The LejitotJiora.v mjlaaderl has never been found in any 

 other situation than in ants' nests, usually those of Formica riifa." 

 Mr. Savmders has pointed out to me that this is not the case, and that 

 it regularly makes its own communities under bark, in bramble stems, 

 etc., and that he has never taken it in ants' nests. Mr. B. S. Harwood, 

 of Colchester, has also written to me that he has never seen it with 

 other ants, and that he finds it in colonies like most species and far 

 distant from any nest of Formica riifa. Although I have taken several 

 specimens with Lasiiis fidiiiinoaii.'i, I did not intend to assert that what 

 Smith wrote was correct, but only to quote what he said. — Horace 

 Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., 58, Kensington Mansions. April lith, 1902. 



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Pink aberration of Amoepha populi. — I have a nice aberration of 

 A. populi taken here ; it is suffused with pale pink over the usual 

 markings. Is it a common form? — G. Wilkinson, Carlisle. April 

 15th, 1902. 



Black specimens of TjEniocampa pulverulenta. — I have taken at 

 sallow bloom lately in this locality, a few most extraordinary black 



