recoi'd of siic-li sawflies as I havy taken, irrespective of wlietlier the species are 

 considered common or otherwise, as additional data are always of value to 

 entomologists. The nomenclattire and systematic order have been adopted at 

 the discretion of Mr. Morice, whose valuable assistance I here acknowledge with 

 many thanks. 



Pamphilius sylvati''us L., I'inner, M.x., 24. v. 15 ; F. dcprcssus Schr., Epping 

 Forest, Great Monk Wood, IG.v.lo; Xiphydria prolong at a Geofi'r. {dromedar%us¥ .) , 

 Broxbourne, Herts, lU.viii.lo, one female seen ovipositing in a fence composed 

 of pine wood; Hetnichroa alni L., Epping Forest, 28. v. 16, one specimen swept 

 off rushes at the Wake Valley Pond ; Pteronidea salicis L., Woodford, Essex, 

 28.viii.15, abundant on willows; P. miliaris Panz., Epping Forest, 25.vi.16 ; 

 P. rifeesu Scop., Pinner, 23. v. 15; P. polyspilus Forst., Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 

 ■i.vii.15; Hoplocainpa pcctoralis Thoms., Epping Forest, 28. v. 16, on rushes; 

 Strongylogaster cingulata F., Epping Forest, 25.vi.16, on bracken ; Sclandria 

 fi'irstenhergensis Konow, near Epping Fox'est, 28.vi.16 ; S. serva F., Pinner, 

 28.v.lo, Northwood, Mx., 20.vi.l5 ; S. sixii Voll., Ware, Herts, several specimens 

 found on rushes on the banks of the R. Lea, 22-23. v. 16 ; Tomostetlius luteiventris 

 King {fuscipennis Fall.), Epping Forest, Fairmead Bottom, 22.V.15, also on 

 rushes at the Wake Valley Pond, 28. v. 16; Dolerus pratensis L., Epping Forest 

 26.iii.16, one specimen shaken from a mass of Juncus, grass, etc. ; 1). palustris 

 Klug, Epping Forest, 22.V.15, 26.vi.16 ; D. aericeps Thorns., Rickmansworth, 

 Herts, 20.vi.l5, one specimen flying amongst rushes at the side of the Grand 

 Junction Canal; D. triplicatus Klug ( c? = va.r. steini Kon6w), Epping Forest 

 (see Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. LI, p. 242, 1915 ; Vol. LII, p. 262, 1916) ; D. ferrugatus 

 Lep., Epping Forest, 28.V.16 ; D. gonager Klug, Harrow, Mx., 7.V.15, one specimen 

 swept from Juncus, etc. ; D. haematodes Schr., Epping Forest, 16.V.15, a pair 

 ( (J $ ) swej)t from Juncus effusus near Loughton Camp ; D. nigratus Miill. 

 (/issits Htg.), Harrow, 7.V.15, also at Enfield, Mx., 19.V.16 (one specimen taken by 

 Mr. G. W. Thomas) ; D. aeneus Htg., Northwood, 9.V.15 ; Rhogogaster fulvipes 

 Scop., Epping Forest, 21. v. 16, one specimen beaten from aspen ; Tenthredella 

 temula Scop, (bicincta L.), Pinner, 24.V.15, also at Waltham, 13.vi.l5 ; Tenthre- 

 dopsis coqueberti Klug, Epping Forest, 22. v. 15, one male. Pinner, 23.V.15, 

 one female ; T. inornata Cam., Pinner, 24.V.15, two females; T. ? spreia heip., 

 Pinner, 24.V.15 ; Tenthredopsis sp., near thornleyi'Konovf, Broxbourne, 21. v. 16. — 

 Harold E. Box, 55, Baxter Avenue, Southend-on-Sea : February "th, 1917. 



Some Dorset Tenthredinidae. — The following list of Tenthredinidae found 

 by me during the last few years in this county may be of some interest. It 

 must be very incomplete, as my collecting of the sawflies has been quite 

 "casual": — Pamphilius hortorum King, F. 2)allipes Zett., P. inanitus Vill., and 

 P. sylvaticus L., were all seen occasionally, Imt seldom caught. They flash 

 up and down the leafy barrier of foliage by the sunny side of woodland glades 

 on the most ideal summer days of May and June: P. pallipes, at Morton, in 

 May, the others near Coombe Keynes, East Lulworth, etc., P. hortorum being the 

 most abundant here. P. pallipes is associated with birch, from which I have 

 swept it. Hartigia linearis Schrank is commoner than Astatus pallipies Klug, 

 but both are far less frequent than A. pygmaeus L. In July, 1914, a great 



