290 [December, 



September 17th. I remarked to my wife and various visitors that one of the 

 charms of Budclleia was that it was such a favourite with butterflies, far ahead 

 of all our other garden flowers or shrubs ; sometimes as many as a dozen on it 

 at once, also very many Diptera, and in the evening many Noctuse. I did not 

 notice any beetles, but the forms mentioned were noticeable by their constant 

 attendance. It was so great a favourite with us that we expect to have a bed of 

 ten or a dozen plants next year, and I expect all the butterflies of the neigh- 

 bourhood. I thought you might be interested in this corroboration of your 

 observations." — James J. Walker, Oxford : November 12th, 1914. 



Some more British records of Danaida plexippus. — Mr. N. V. Sidgwick, of 

 Lincoln College, Oxford, has just kindly shown me a $ example of Danaida 

 plexippus in fairly good condition, which he captured on the undercliff at Lyme 

 Regis, on August 14th, 1886, " immediately after a westerly gale." I am also 

 indebted to Mr. A. H. Swinton for calling my attention to a specimen of this 

 butterfly, stated by the late Mr. G. C. Bignell to have been taken in 1885, in 

 the Citadel Road, Plymouth. I well remember my old friend telling me that 

 D. plexippus had been taken in the Plymouth district, but up to the present I 

 had thought that he referred to the specimen taken by Mr. F. F. Freeman in 

 the same year, a few miles to the westward, at Downderry, Cornwall (anted, 

 p. 227). Mr. South has also kindly referred me to a record by Mr. W. J. Lucas, 

 in the " Entomologist," vol. XXX, p. 18, under the Cramerian name of Anosia 

 menippe, of a specimen seen, but missed, at Newlands Corner, near Guildford, 

 Surrey, on July 12th, 1896. I had overlooked this record when compiling my 

 table of the British occurences of the butterfly. — J. J. Walker. 



Aculeate Hymenoptera in the Woking district. — This year we almost com- 

 pletely neglected Lepidoptera to devote our time and energy to getting together a 

 sample collection of Fossores, Diploptera, and Anthophila from this corner of 

 Surrey. The productive early spring season was neglected, so that several 

 quite common species were missed, and our collecting grounds were almost 

 confined to the Horsell and Chobham sand heathland, but we think it may be 

 of interest to note briefly what sort of selection may fall to the nets of two 

 novices in a short season ; in all some 155 species have been named, all the 

 more critical of these with the help or confirmation of the Rev. F. D. Morice, 

 to whom we are indebted for much kind assistance. 



The species marked with an asterisk are additions to the "Victoria 

 History " Surrey list. 



Mutillid^s : Mutilla europxa ; Myrmosa melanocephala, $ $ not rare, up 

 to a dozen being procurable on a suitable day, and a single $ taken on 

 flowers ; Methoca ichneumonoides, not rare, but less frequent than the last. 

 Observations were made on the habits of this species (c/. Ent. Mo. Mag., Nov. 

 1914, pp. 266-270). 



TiPHiiDiE : Tiphia femorata* one $ on an umbel of Fwniculum vnlgare, at 

 Horsell ; this species does not appear in the county list. 



Pompilid-s: : 15 species, including Pompilus bicolor, not rare ; P. rufipes, a 

 couple ; P. cinctellus ; P. pectinipes, one specimen ; Homonotus sanguinolentus 



