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amongst which Orgyia (in this case aurolimbata) had not previously been 

 noted. Mr. Morley gives me references to various similar records, from which 

 I gather that they are very few in number, and that in only one of them has 

 the name of the parasite been reported. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. I, pp. 73 and 235, are translations from the 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1864, p. 158, and Bulletin, same year, p. xxxv, concerning 

 Diptera and a moth being afforded by a larva of A. caja. In the Entomologist, 

 Vol. Ill (1866), A. von Glehn records two parasitic larvae and an imago in the 

 case of A. atropos. In Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XX, p. 227, Dr Hearder describes 

 killing a parasite emerging from a larva of D.furcula, the dead remains being 

 left in situ, a moth duly emerged with a slightly crippled hind wing. Mr. Morley 

 records an instance in British Ichneumons, II, p. 263, of an Apanteles congestus 

 and a moth being afforded in the case of Z. filipendulx. This case seems not 

 quite free from a suspicion that the cocoon might have been spun at a point 

 where another larva had provided the Ichneumon cocoon. Mr. Morley also 

 refers in the same note to a curious story in Mag. Nat. Hist., 1834, p. 60, 

 possibly an instance of co-operative cocoon making rather than of survival 

 after parasitism. These seem to be all the items Mr. Morley knows of, in 

 English magazines. The Microplitis tuberculifera, Wesm., is dealt with 

 systematically by Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1885, p. 235 ; Andre, Bracon. 

 d'Europe, I, p. 510; and by Mr. Morley in the Entomologist, 1906, p. 103. 



So far as one can generalise from these few facts, it would seem that the 

 host may survive the attack and emergence of the parasite, only in cases where 

 the parasite is a comparatively small species, usually when only one or two 

 parasites are present of a species that is gregarious in its host. This possible 

 explanation is given by Mr. Morley (I.e.). — T. A. Chapman, Betula, Reigate : 

 November, 1913. 



Amara alpina, F., at Braemar. — In the early part of last June I had a 

 couple of days collecting at Braemar. The whole working time was spent on 

 Mount Morrone, which rises to a height of 2,819 feet, and I only worked above 

 the 2,000 feet line. I was fortunate enough to capture three specimens of this 

 scarce species, all under stones lying amongst the heather. One was the variety 

 with dull reddish elytra, the other two were of the ordinary type colour. I took 

 most of the usual mountain Carabidse, such as Miscodera arctica, Payk., Harpalus 

 quadripunctatus, Dej., Cymindis vaporariorum, L., Patrobus septentrionis, Dej., 

 Calathus nubigena, Hal., and Harpalus latus v. erythrocephalus, F. In deer dung, 

 amongst swarms of Aphodius lapponum, Gyll., I got one A. nemoralis, Er. My 

 visit was too hurried a one to allow any real attempt to work the moss, but I 

 tried two or three likely looking spots with very poor success. The only other 

 beetle worth recording was Anthonomus conspersus, Desbr., beaten off mountain 

 ash by the Dee side. — T. Hudson Beabe, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh: 

 November 15th, 1913. 



