Andrena dorsatn K. and A. similis Sin sti/lophed.- -To my list of st^lopized 

 bees (Kilt. Mo. Mag. 1918, p. 115) I am now able to add two other species. 

 During- the last week in March my brother picked up a female A. dorsata K. 

 in East Devon and sent it to me, suspecting that it was stylopized. This 

 specimen contains two female Stylops, which appear similar to those found in 

 A. ovutula {(ifzeliella) and wilkella K. The bee itself is much changed in respect 

 to the pollinigeroiis apparatus; the pollen basket formed by the curved hairs 

 of the propodeum is greatly reduced and the scopae are also in a deteriorated 

 condition. The hind tibiae are red at the apex, as is usual in examples of 

 the second or summer brood of this Andrena, but this colour is sometimes 

 found in healthy examples of the spring brood. A single stylopized male of 

 A. similis Sm. was taken in April. This also is much changed by the parasite, 

 and in fact might easily be mistaken for some other species. The charac- 

 teristic rugulositv of the abdomen is lost, and this has become conspicuously 

 shining or polislied. In fact, to the naked eye the specimen has somewhat the 

 appearance of a small example of A. politu Sm. — R. 0. L. Perkins, Paignton : 

 June -itJi, 1919. 



Sire.v juve7icns in A>«' Zealand.— Last month Mr. F. G. Moore of Masterton, 

 Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand, submitted to me, for identificaticn, 

 two specimens of tlie well-known I'luropean Sirc.rjuvencus and stated that his 

 son had observed two others in the neighbourhood of Masterton, This fine 

 insect is a very striking addition to our rather meagre Ilymenopterous fauna. 

 It has no doubt been introduced amongst imported timber. — G. V. Hudson, 

 flillview, Kavori, Wellington, New Zealand : Ajiril 2Srd, 1919. 



jVote on the " nymph "' of Melampsalta cingulata. — Whilst digging up a 

 currant garden, which hail been neglected fen' about five years, I discovered 

 several full-grown "nymphs" of Melampsalta vinipdata. These should ap- 

 parently have emerged during the last summer. Although our past season 

 was very exceptionally cold, wet, and boisterous, the autumn was fine and, so 

 far as I am aware, tlie imapines of M. cimpdala were about in normal numbei's. 

 It is clear, however, that the individuals I disturbed to-day will not now 

 emerge until next November or December, at the earliest, as M. cingnlata is 

 never on the wing before that time and its period of greatest abundance is late 

 February or March. Tliis observation may be of some interest as indicating 

 the fact that Cicadae may remain over a season in the "nymph " state. — G. V. 

 HuDsox : May 22nd, 1919. 



Insects and Funyi on Grass Land. — The following note, published in the 

 " Gardener's Chronicle," London, Ixv, No. 1680, March 8th, 1919, p. 114, is of 

 interest to economic entomologists: — On apiece of grass land broken up for 

 cultivation in 1918, the local pests were A^np/n'mallifs {li/iizotroyns) solstitialis, 

 MeloIontJia melolontha {ridyans), Tipula (leather-jaclvet), Feltia (Ayiofis) evcla- 

 matimiis, and Enxoa {A.) seyetiim, the last two cutworms being most destructive 

 to cabbage, parsley, and potatoes. Some other' insects were present, but they 

 disappeared with the destruction of their food or shelter and wei'e not injurious 

 to the vegetables. Imported pests, or those that invaded the new feeding- 

 ground were : Phorbia {Anthomyia) brassicae (cabbage fly) imported on 



