1(5 [January, 



ro real proof of this relationship is piven. F. Walker (1844, Ann. Map. Nat, 

 Hist, xiv, p. 182) records it as bred in numbers shortly after the middle of 

 Junt^ from Tortrix xi/Iosteana ; in the " Zoolog'ist," (iii, 1845, pp. 850. 1142) 

 he writes that it also parasitises Turtrix virirhma and Anobiid beetles, but 

 again no actual pn^of is mentioned. Dours (1874, Cat. Hym. France, p. 103) 

 records it as bred by Ferris from the weevil Ceufhorrhynchus asperuhis* , and 

 this is copied by J. de Gaulle (4908, Cat. Hym. France, p. 101), and cited by 

 Elliott & Morley (1911, Tr. Ent. Soc. London, p. 484). Dalla Torre (Cat. ITym. 

 V, 1898, p. 120) mentions as host only Tortrix xylosteann. Connold (1908, Brit. 

 Oak Galls, pp. 1.38, 151) records it from galls of the Cynipid Teras terminalis 

 Fabr. Further information, either on the hosts or on the habit of swarming, 

 has not been obtained from the literature, though all articles referred to in the 

 "Zoological Record," from the date of publication of Dalla Torre's Catalogue 

 (1898) onwards, which seemed likely to throw light on the subject, have been 

 con^ulted. 



Neither the sample from Hascombe, nor those examined by Blair, appeared 

 to include any males. Walker stated that though the female may always be 

 found, the only males he had seen were specimens bred by him — if indeed 

 these were actually males of the species in question. Nees, however, appends 

 to his original description (Hym. Ichn. aff. Monogr. ii, 1834, p. Ill) the 

 remark that he had seen both males and females in early spring and autumn 

 on windows at Sickershausen (near Kitzingen, Bavaria), and had taken other 

 specimens on flowers in May and July. 



University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. 

 December 1918. 



Thnlycra sericea Sturm in Cnmberland. — This insect appears to be mainly 

 southern in its distribution in Britain, although Fowler mentions it as very rare 

 ill the Moray district of Scotland. I can find no record of its occurrence in the 

 north of England. It will be of interest therefore to note the capture of a 

 single specimen in July last by myself while sweeping long grass under trees 

 at Kiiigmoor near Carlisle. The specimen is much smaller and more pallid 

 than others I have seen. My identification has been kindly confirmed by 

 Mr. Newbery.— F. H. Day, Carlisle : Oct. 2'.ird, 1918. 



Endomychidae in Essex. — On October 19th, 1918, while examining a puff- 

 ball {Lycoperdon bovista) in Hadleigh Woods, near Southend, I was pleased to 

 discover a single specimen of Lycoperdina bovistae F. The beetle was ex- 

 ceedingly sluggish in its movements. Fowler (Col. Brit. Isls. vol. iii, p. 181) 

 says: "very local, but generally in some numbers when found," but in this 

 case further search for other examples proved futile. 1 may add that not far 

 from this spot, my fricud Mr. E. C. Day took three specimens of Endmnychus 

 coccineus L. on a damp tree-stump covered with boleti. — A. F. J. Gedve, 

 4 Kunwell Terrace, Westcliff-on-Sea : Oct. 31si!, 1918. 



* Prcamnably Ceuthorrhynchidius posthumus Germ, {—asperulus Boh.) ia meant. 



