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from the fact that the $ Halicti are fertilized in the summer, and the $ $ all 

 perish at the approach of winter, the $ $ alone hibernating. In Lepidoptera, 

 under natural conditions, I have only seen comparatively closely allied species 

 in copula, e.g., Triphxna comes with T. interjecta, Zygaena lonicerse with Z. fli- 

 pendulsp, &c. I possess the pair of Bombus terrestris, <j> , and B. lapidarius, <J, 

 taken in cop. by F. Smith, as recorded by him. — R. C. L. Perkins, M.A., D.Sc, 

 Paignton : August 12th, 1914. 



Abundance of the Gooseberry saw-fly, Pteronus ribesii,Scop. — I wonder if the 

 Gooseberry saw-fly (Pteronus ribesii) has been unusually abundant in the 

 country generally this season. Here it has been very destructive, the larvae 

 often quite defoliating the gooseberry bushes in all the gardens (in several 

 widely separated out-districts of the town) I have heard anything about. In 

 my own garden the larvse for the second brood were evidently just hatching at 

 the time the veiy numerous imagines of Abraxas grossulariata were depositing 

 their eggs, and by the time the latter were hatched there was little left for them 

 to feed upon, and they very soon cleared off such leaves as were left. Probably 

 many thousands have perished, as I think that comparatively few would have 

 reached the hibernating stage before practically every bush was denuded of 

 leaf. For some time now nearly all the bushes have the appearance of having 

 been burnt, not a vestige of green being visible. — Geo. T. Porritt, Hudders- 

 field : September 7th, 1914. 



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"Report and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society." — 

 Vol. XLVI, 1913. Cardiff : printed for the Society by William Lewis, Duke 

 Street. 1914. 



In our volume for 1913 (pp. 260-1) we had the pleasure of noticing the 

 first instalment of the valuable list of Glamorgan Coleoptera by Mr. J. R. 

 le B. Tomlin embodied in the report of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society for 

 1912. Their annual volume for last year (pp. 21-51) contains a further portion 

 of this List, from the Staphylinidx to the Georyssidse inclusive. As the compiler 

 remarks, the list of Staphylinidse is as yet but a poor one, and systematic col- 

 lecting in the county would increase it enormously ; it nevertheless includes 

 the exceedingly rare Philonthus pulius, Nordm., taken on the coast by Messrs. 

 Tomlin and Allen, besides a considerable number of other interesting species. 

 In the Clavicorn series of families, too, the coast-frequenting forms are very 

 well represented. Further " Entomological Notes " (pp. 97-100), including 

 several interesting additions to the County List of Hymenoptera Aculeata, are 

 contributed as before by Mr. H. M. Hallett, F.E.S. 



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