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ptera. Metopia argyrocephdla and Sphixapata conica occurred at bees' nesta in 

 sand. But most disappointing; were the Hyraenoptera : the only notable 

 Ichneumon was Anisobas hostilis, whereof a single specimen exactly as the 

 former is recorded in my Ichn. Brit, i, p. 211, on 28th; the Chalcids, Comys 

 scutellata on Myrica in Boldrewood and Tn'yo?ioderus princeps on a bored 

 hawthorn in Ashurst Wood are worth mention. In the Matley sand-pit 

 Fossors abounded : Pompilius riifipes, P. plumheus, P. spisms, Salius exaltatus, 

 Amnwphila campestins, Psen eqnestris, Oxi/belus unighimis, Crabro pitbescens, 

 and a single C. signatus. Vespa rufa and norveylca were captured, and hornets 

 were not rare ; and in the above sand-pit were a few Sphecodes subquadratus 

 with abundance of Andrena aryentata, thons^h none of their inquilines. — 

 Claude Morley, Monks Soham House, SulFolk : August 1919. 



Hemiptei'a, etc. in the New Forest. — The following species of Ilemiptera 

 have been captured by myself in the New Forest during the past three weeks — 

 J)rymus piceusFlor {= Lamproplax sharpi D. & S.)*, several specimens, mostly 

 more or less immature, Plociotnerus fracticollis Schill., sparingly [P. luridus 

 Hahn was not to be seen this year, though I have taken it freely from 

 Sphagnum in the Forest in October], Notochilus limbatus Fieb., one example, 

 Aug. 7th, Pachycoleus rufescens Sahib., rarelj', Ceratocombus coleoptratus Zett.*, 

 one specimen, and Hebrus pusillus Fall, and H. rujiceps Thorns., both in 

 abundance — all in Sphagnum or wet moss ; Cryptostemma alienum H.-S., in its 

 usual habitat on the banks of streams. Coleoptera were practically over for 

 the season, owing to the excessively hot weather in the earlier part of the 

 summer, and two species only were taken that are worth noting — Pselnphus 

 dresdensis Herbst*, very sparingly in Sphagnum, and Epurnea angustula Er.*, 

 one example in a Cossus-infected oak. The handsome A.cridiid Meco»tethiis 

 yrossiis L. was seen on the bog on Acres Down on Aug. 14th. The species 

 marked with an asterisk have not been recorded from the Forest, so far as I 

 am aware. — G. C. Champion, Horsell : Avyust 18th, 1919. 



The South London Entomological and Natural Hlstory Society: 

 July \Otk, 1919.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Moore exhibited Pyrameis atalanta from Dunedin, Florida. Mr. 

 Sperring, a series of suffused specimens of Brenthis euphrosyne from Lincoln- 

 shire, a bred series of Mimas tiliae, including ab. centripuncta, ab. suffnsa, and 

 other forms from Blackheath. Mr, Barnett, a large locust sent from Gibraltar 

 alive. Mr. Coppard, several of the larger British saw-flies. Mr. B. S. Wil- 

 liams, aberrations of Pieris rapae. Mr. Humphries, larvae of Lymantria 

 dispar from Holland, larvae of the Solonion-seal .«aw-fly, and aberrations of 

 Aglais urticae and Vanessa io. Dr. liobertson, short series of New Forest 

 "pugs," Eupithecia, and a fine series of Cleora ylahrana bred from New 

 Forest larvae, including one with a minimum of marking bred from a perfectly 

 black larva. Mr. Edwards, Papilio species from S. America of the uscciniua 

 group. Remarks were made on the scarcity of butterflies this season. 



