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naked tibiee, but, unlike the others of this division, has distinct black bristly hairs on 

 the tibiae ; it has also the black haired abdomen of rufa, but, like the ? , has the basal 

 segment of the abdomen distinctly longer than in that species. Further search will 

 be made for it by its captor, as he believes he took it on UmbelUfercB about September. 

 Mr. Cambridge has also given me leave to record the capture of a specimen of 

 Odynerus hasalis, Smith, taken by him on Blosworth Heath some years ago, running 

 about at the roots of heather, &c. As this locality is some miles from the others 

 already knovrn for this great rarity, I thought it ought to be put on record. — 

 Edward Sattndebs, St. Ann's, Woking : August nth, 1896. 



Capture of the $ and $ of Crahro puhescens. Shuck. — Having recently taken 

 both sexes of Crabro pubescens at Brickett Wood, near St. Albans, it may be VForth 

 while, in addition to recording the locality of the capture, to put before your readers 

 a description of the ? , which I understand has not previously been met with in 

 this country, and which so closely, at first sight, resembles the ? of C. leucostoma, 

 that when met with it might, unless carefully examined, be thrown aside. For this 

 reason a comparison with the latter will be all that is necessary for its identification. 



The female of pubescens is a more slender insect than the female of leucostoma, 

 and in outline is not unlike the male of the latter ; the head and mesothorax are 

 much more closely and evenly punctured, the head is not hollowed out beside the 

 central furrow, there is a more or less conspicuous pale blotch at the base of the 

 hinder tibise, the red ring at the base of the hinder tarsi is scarcely discernible, 

 and there is also a yellow line on the scape of the antennae. — A. Piffabd, Felden, 

 Boxmoor, Herts. ; August ISth, 1896. 



[This is a most interesting capture, and the likeness of the ? to small leucostoma 

 is, as Mr. Piffard points out, very great ; the characters he gives, however, if always 

 constant, are sufficient to distinguish it at once from the common species. — E. S.]. 



Oliarus leporinus, Linn., in the New Forest. — The two British species of the 

 Homopterous genus Oliarus are both rare in this country, but I have had the good 

 fortune to find O. Panzeri (formerly called leporinus) in several localities, and last 

 year met with it in tolerable abundance at Sea View in the Isle of Wight. O. 

 leporinus (= palUdus, olim), however, has, I believe, only been hitherto recorded 

 from Clifton, Lulworth, and Ryde, and it was therefore with great pleasure that I 

 secured a specimen whilst collecting at Lyndhurst with the Rev. H. S. Gorham on 

 June 24th. It was found by sweeping in a somewhat wet locality about a mile and 

 a half from Lyndhurst Road Station; the herbage consisted chiefly of Myrica gale, 

 but there were numbers of other plants growing with it. I only found a single 

 example, but even in the sweeping-net one could see it looked different to the 

 ordinary Panzeri, and the long vertex of its head betrayed it at once. I sought 

 in vain for other specimens, so could form no idea of its food-plant ; very 

 likely, however, it does not keep constant to one, as Panzeri occurred at Sea View 

 by beating oaks, by sweeping UmbellifereB in an open field, and also frequently by 

 casual sweeping away from oaks and, so far as I could make out, from UmbellifertB 

 also. — Edward Saundkrs, St. Ann's, Woking : August lOth, 1896. 



