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Collin, ought to be specially recorded. I possess two specimens of this fly, one 

 having been taken some years hack in my garden at Lyndhurst on July Kith, and 

 placed in my cabinet at the time as doubtful C. rupZcornis, where it was overlooked 

 until I took the other on April 25th, 1901. I exhibited both at Mr. Yen-all's 

 Meeting of the Entomological Club, held January 14th, 1902, and as (here was still 

 some doubt about the specific name, left them with Mr. Collin, who kindly promised 

 further examination, and he recently returned them as undoubted ruficornis, F., an 

 opinion which was confirmed by Mr. Yen-all ; the former also wrote " this is an 

 interesting capture, as it confirms Mr. Yen-all's conjectures in British Flies (Syr- 

 phida), page 627."— In. : April 3rd, 1902. 



Dipterous parasite of Acanthopsyche atra, L. (opace/la, H.-S.).—Jn my note 

 in the Ent. Mo. Mag., 1901, pp. 62 and 127, I was unable to give the name of this 

 parasite. Some flies bred from A. atra, and almost certainly the same specie-- re- 

 ferred to in these notes, are determined by Mr. Collin to be St om atomy ia Jilipalpis, 

 Riul., which has been recorded fo have been bred from Psyche yraminella and 

 unicolor (names which are synonymous), a fact that confirms my suggestion that 

 the control of the parasite over the instincts of its victim had not been learned on 

 atra only. Acanthopsyche opacella, H.-S., must now be called A. atra, L., the 

 Linnean type having been uncart lied by Mr. Prout.— T. A. Chapman, Betula, 

 Reigate : April, 1902. 



Lathrohium atripalpe. Sharp, and other Coieoptera in North Yorkshire. — It 

 may interest Coleopterists to learn of the occurrence of a few somewhat rare beetles 

 in North Yorkshire during 1901. When collecting in Upper Teesdale in September 

 I took a specimen of the rare Lathrohium atripalpe, Sharp, under a stone on the 

 high moor near Cronkley. In Saltburn Wood I beat a single Anaspis Oarneysi, 

 Fowler, from whitethorn blossom in June ; whilst Tthagonycha unicolor, Curt, (in 

 July), and Malthodes miselliis, Kies. (in June), were swept from herbage in the 

 same locality. At Saltburn, too, Homalota frayilis, Er., was found running over 

 the mud on the margin of a stream in July, but I only captured one specimen. 

 Two " notes " appeared in this Magazine during last year on the habitat of Dryo- 

 philus pitsillus, Gyll., one by Dr. J. Harold Bailey, and the other by Mr. F. H. 

 Day. This species is common in Saltburn Wood in June, but I have only, as yet, 

 observed the insect on larches. — M. LAWSON Thompson, 35, Leven Street, Saltburn- 

 by-the-Sea: March Mlh, 1902. 



[The specimen of Anaspis Oarneysi referred to is a male, and is easily verified 

 hy the characters of the third ventral segment of the abdomen in this sex, which is 

 much elongated, and is furnished with two rather stout and widely separated ap- 

 pendages, which are strongly curved inwards towards one another, and enclose 

 between them an almost circular smooth and shining space. The species is probably 

 not uncommon, but is overlooked, as it closely resembles A. frontalis, from which it 

 may lie known by the somewhat longer and more slender antenna 1 and more evident 

 sculpture, and also by the colour of the legs; it has occurred at Ditton, Horsell, 

 Ashtead, Claygate, Mickleham, Cowley, Loughton, Darenth Wood, New Forest, 

 Tewkesbury, &C.-W. W. P.]. 



