28 THE entomologist's record. 



pilicorms, Muls., taken in a chalkpit at Abinger Hammer, near 

 Gomshall, Surrey, which he compares with Drymus confuHun, Horv. 

 The second is Salda aeiuhmi, Put., a single $ having been taken in 

 August last, amongst flood-refuse on the southern side of Poole 

 Harbour. This he compares with its ally, <S'. opacida, Zett. 



Mr. Lamb records {Knt. Mu. Ma;/.) the addition of the Drosophilid, 

 Periscelis annulata, Fall., to the British list, on the strength of 

 specimens taken in June last, at sap flowing from a beech-tree in the 

 New Forest, and at sap flowing from an elm near Cambridge. He 

 also adds the Ephydrid, Ochthera inantnpa, Lw., to the British list, 

 from a single specimen taken in September, at Porthcothan, near 

 Padstow, in North Cornwall. 



Mr. Barrett records {F/nt. Mo. Maij.) that Dort/phora iialnstnila has 

 been bred from larv!;^ found mining the stems of common dock, by 

 Mr. W. Purdey, of Folkestone. At Deal, where we have taken it, we 

 had certainly never noticed that it appeared to have any special 

 connection with the plant. 



As we noted {antea, p. 276), Mr. Arkle has redescribed Aph-cta 

 7iebidosa ab. robsoni, Collins, asvar. t/iompsoni, Arkle. We point out [Ent. 

 Mo. i¥ar/.), by quotation from Mr. Arkle'sown description, that, in all the 

 essential points relied on, Mr. Arkle's tlioni pmnl tallies with one of the 

 types of rob.vmi in our possession. Mr. Arkle now discovers that 

 these extracts taken from his original description and applied to one of 

 the robsoni types do not belong to robsoni or thouipwni, but to something 

 between the two. Since robsoni = thonipsoni, one wonders where the 

 intermediate between them comes in. He says he is prepared to give 

 data as to the distribution of robsoni, which, he asserts on the credit of 

 others, occurs in Yorkshire, but strangely enough ofters none. 



Mr. Tomlin records liipersia europaea, Newst., from nests of 

 Formica fasca, on the clift's near Swanage, in September last. It was 

 excessively abundant although an addition to the British list. 



Mr. Verity gives {Bull. Fnt. Soc, France, 190-i, p. 233) a note on 

 the egg and first stage larva of Parnara nostrodainus. We hope he 

 will try and get the insect through next year, and send some of the 

 eggs and larvae, in their various stadia, to England for exhibition. 



Dr. Alfken describes some gynandromorphic Apids — Andrena 

 /lamilis, Prosopis kriechbaiuneri, P. pratensis, and Spliecodes (/ibbus {Soc. 

 Fnt., p. 122). 



Dr. Sharp (Fnt. Mo. Ma;/.) records the capture of Criocephalns 

 rusticus, Dej., by Colonel Yerbury, during the past summer, when 

 searching for Callicera yerburt/i. Mr. Champion has also determined 

 some metallic-green beetles, taken on flowers of convolvulus on the 

 sandhills at Hunstanton, on June 21st, 1899, by Mr. Thouless, as 

 Malaclnis barnevillei, Puton. 



In our current note (antea p. 340) relative to the death of Mr. 

 J. Carter, we were in error in stating that Mr. Carter had been a life- 

 long lepidopterist. He was a geologist of repute, whilst his son, Mr. 

 J. W. Carter, the well-known lepidopterist, has recently been elected 

 as President of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Field Club for 1905. We much regret the unfortunate blunder. 



Eeeatum re egg of Gnophos glaucinaria. — The ? , whose eggs are described 

 (Ent. Rec, xv., p. 338) as those of Gnophos glaucinaria, appears to be a worn 

 specimen of G. dilucidaria. — L. B. Prout. December 18th, 1904. 



