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I did not in any instance see either No. 3 or No. 5 make the hole which always 

 existed at the base of the corolla after a bee had examined it, and so the opening 

 once made served for erery successive visitor. In Hermann Miiller's work, " The 

 Fertilization of Flowers,"* at page 433, the fertilization of Antirrhinum majus 

 by various bees is noticed, but in every case quoted the bee entered the corolla. 

 This is the more singular, as it is said, with respect to the flowers of the allied 

 Linaria vulgaris, " I have seen the honey-bee bite a hole in the spur and empty it, 

 as Sprengel describes." 



No8. 2, 3 and 4 disappeared after the 3rd of September, at least they then came 

 no more to the snapdragons. 



The flowers exhibited countless shades and combinations of colours, from pure 

 white to crimson, including spots and stripes, but the bees had no preference for any, 

 going indiscriminately from one to the other.— J. W. DoUGLAB, 8, Beaufort Gardens, 

 Lewisham : Sept. lOth, 1886. 



Agrypnia Pagetana, Curt., and other Trichoptera in Ireland. — Eeferring to the 

 note on Trichoptera from Co. Monaghan, Ireland, vol. xx, p. 142, I have again 

 received from Miss Freeland small collections made there during the present and 

 last summer. These include a number of Agrypnia Pagetana, Curt., which occurred 

 commonly about the end of July. They differ little from specimens out of the 

 English Fen country ; their aspect is, if anything, darker. The extension of the 

 geographical range of this species so far westward as Ireland, is interesting : for a 

 long time it was known, as British, only from the eastern parts of England and 

 Scotland, but quite recently it was recorded from Clydesdale. 



Other species not mentioned in my former note are : Phryganea varia, F. ; 

 Limnophilus affinis, Curt. ; Sericostoma personatum, Spence ; Goera pilosa, F. ; 

 Leptocerus allifrons, L. ; Tricenodes bicolor, Curt.; (Ecetis lacustris,'Pictet ; and 

 Holocentropus dubius, Ramb. 



(Ecetis furva, Eamb., is again represented, this time by about thirty examples 

 (^ and ? ). — Kenneth J. Moeton, Carluke, N.B. : September 8th, 1886. 



Micromus aphidivorus, Schrk. (angulatus, Steph.J, near London. — My friend 

 Mr. E. Saunders recently gave me a specimen of this little Hemerobid that he had 

 beaten from Pinus sylvestris at West Wickham, on the 18th ult. It is one of the 

 rarest of the British Semerobiidee, and is here essentially sporadic, but of wide dis- 

 tribution, and only taken singly. I possess two other native examples, both dating 

 from 1863 : one taken by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson at Witherslack, in the Lake District, 

 the other near Worcester, by the late Eev. E. Ilorton. Stephens gave " near 

 London," and Scotland as localities. I have seen others, but very few. On the 

 continent its distribution is very wide, and it is often not uncommon. It occurs also 

 in North America : I have an example from Mt. Washington in New Hampshire 

 that is not separable from European specimens. I follow Hagen's old nomenclature 

 in using Schrank's name, but the latter's description is very vague, and might apply 

 to other species better than to this. Stephens' name angulatus should probably 

 prevail. 



* The Fertilization of Flowers. By Prof. Hermann Miiller. Translated and edited by D'Arcy 

 W. Thompson, B.A. London: Macmill.in, 1883. 



