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Additions to the British list of TenthredinidcB. 



Dinetira stilata, Klug, Bl;ittw., No. 72 ; Hartig, Blatfcw. und Holzw., 227, 2 ; 

 Kematus stilatus, Tlioruson, Ilyincn. Scand., i, 82, 3. I captui'ed both sexes of this 

 species at the end of last month on Pi/riis aueuparia in Cadder Wood. 



Selandria grandis, Zaddach, Beschreibiing neuer oder wenig bekannter Blatt- 

 wespen, p. 3G (1859),=5^. interstitialis, Thomson, Hymen. Scand., i, 237, 2 (1871). 

 This species will, I believe, prove to be common in Britain ; but it is very apt to be 

 passed over for the familiar -S". serva, with which it agrees nearly in colouration, but 

 differs in a few other points, notably in having the second recurrent nervure joined 

 to the second sub-marginal nervure ; and it is, moreover, a much larger insect. I 

 have taken it in several places in Scotland, and have also seen an English example cap- 

 tured by the Rev. T. A. Marshall. It is very desirable that both forms should be 

 bred, in order to see if the larvfe differ. 



Xematus histrio, Le Pel., ^NFonographia Tcnthredinetarum, G3, 185 (1823),= 

 N. rufescens, Hartig, Blattw., 191, 15 (1837) ; Thomson, Hymen. Scand., i, 130, 56. 

 Bred from a pale green larva, with a darker green dorsal line, bordered on each side 

 by another line, which, when the creature is feeding, is white; and all three disappear 

 after it has spun up. . The sides are dotted with small points. The larvse were dis- 

 covered (not uncommonly) feeding on Salix aurita,on the hill-sides at Glenclg, in 

 June, and spun up at the end of that mouth or the beginning of July, the flies ap- 

 pearing the following spring. 



I noticed a curious circumstance with two of these larvsE ; the^ inhabited one com- 

 mon cocoon, which was a little more than double the ordinary size, and was also of a 

 much more oval shape. Probably, it was merely two cocoons joined together; but there 

 was no partition separating the inhabitants. I do not at present recollect whether 

 they reached the perfect state or not. — P. Cameron, Jun., 136, West Graham Street, 

 Glasgow : 1-ith Julij, 1874. 



Chrysopa teneJla, cf'c, at Weybridge. — On the 4th inst., I took two examples of 

 this rare or overlooked species in St. George's Hill Wood. C. aspersa, ventralis, 

 and Jlaii/rons, were all tolerably common ; but Nothochrysa capitata, of which I 

 captured an example at this place last summer, was not to be seen. To my horror, 

 I found that my favourite ponds in the wood had been di'ained off, but PyrrJiosoma 

 tenellum still lingered. A single Ephemera proved to bo the recently described 

 E. lineata, Eaton. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham : 9/A July, 1874. 



Note on Bolivian Rhopalocera. — Mr. Buckley, who has been out to Bolivia for 

 me, has just returned with a very valuable collection of butterflies. He had received 

 Bome packages in such a mutilated state that ho at once resolved to be his own 

 carrier of the collection which he was just about to send. 



Like his former collections, it is in a state of the greatest perfection, and contains 

 many new and some rare and splendid species : amongst them, Moipho Oodarti, 

 and M. Aurora. He had watched the Morpho Oodarli for some time frequenting a 

 grassy ledge upon the face of a precipice, hoping, but in vain, that it would come 

 within his reach. He had to bo let down by a rope to obtain it. 



I have not yet examined the collection sufliciently to ascertain the number of 

 new species, but have no difllculty in saying that there will be at least fifty : some of 

 them very remarkable. Mr. Buckley will return to Bolivia again shortly. — W. C. 

 Hewitson, Oatlands : July Wth, 1874. 



