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Actidium coarctatum, S^'c, near Gloucester. — Last autumn, at Barnwood, near 

 Grioucester, in a hotbed composed partly of tan and partly of manure, I found 

 Nephanes Titan plentifully, and with it Ptiliiim foveolatiim, Millidium trisulcatum, 

 Aub^, and one specimen of Actidium coarctatum. The capture of this latter insect 

 in a hotbed is worth recording, as confiraiing the statement of the late Mr. Haliday 

 that he had taken it in such a locality ; it has been supposed that he made a mistake, 

 as the Actidia, as a rule, are river-bank insects. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : 2nd 

 May, 1882. 



Notes on Spring Ht/menoptera at Hastings in 1882. — During a stay of a few 

 days at Hastings, from the 6th to the 10th of this month, I succeeded in meeting 

 with a considerable number of species of Andrena, &c., and as the season has been 

 one of such unusual mildness I thought it would be of interest to notice those which 

 occurred. Nearly all the species were found either on Sallows in the Ticinity of Ore 

 lane, or flying about the sandy banks of the Croft. 



Andrena pilipes, $ and $ , common on the Croft, the ? with the pubescence of 

 the thorax unusually grey ; A. albicans, J $ , Ore ; A. atriceps, Croft ; A. Trim,' 

 merana, ^ $ , Ore, common, a few very brightly coloured females of the var. spini- 

 gera, most of the females sliglitly red at the base of the abdomen beneath ; all the 

 males of the ordinary Trimmerana type — A. thoracica, Ore; A. nitida, Croft; A. 

 fulva $ , Croft ; A. Clarkella 9 , Ore ; A. nigro-cBnea ^ ? , Ore and Croft ; A. Owyn- 

 ana, Croft and HoUington ; A. lapponica ^ , Ore ; A. pracox $ , Ore ; A. varians 

 $ , Croft ; A.fasciata, S ? , Croft ; A. parvula ^ , Ore ; Nomada succinvta. Croft ; 

 Anthophora acervorum, Croft ; Bomhns lapidarius, B. terrestris, B. pratoriim, Ore ; 

 B. Derharnelliis, HoUington. — Edward Saunders, Holmesdale, Wandle Eoad, 

 Upper Tooting : April Wth, 1882. 



Qerris lacustris in hibernation far from -water. — On the 17th of March, at 

 Weybridge, I had some moss-hunting without success, having found nothing beyond 

 sjjecies of insects that are usually seen in or under moss at all seasons, many of the 

 examples defective by efflux of their time. I assume the reason of this paucity was 

 that all the species that had made use of the moss simply for hibernation had gone 

 out and were distributed, induced thereto by the recently previous, and then still 

 existing, hot sunny weather. The abundance of insects of many kinds which had 

 been roused from their various hiding places and were flying at this early season was 

 remarkable; one of them, Ilylurgus piniperda, I caught with my hat. There was, 

 however, one exception to the general liveliness — a Oerris lacnstris — which was 

 deep in long damp moss growing under the shelter of a furze-bush on the northern \ 

 side of a hillock, and this insect though still was not torpid. The remarkable thing, 

 however, was not so much its remaining in seclusion as that it had travelled half a 

 mile away from water to gain its winter quarters ; the species usually hibernating 

 close to the water on the surface of which it had lived. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beau- 

 fort Gardens, Lewisham : 2oth March, 1882. 



Capture of the nymph of Aphalara nervosa, Forster, on Achillea millefolium. — 

 For three seasons I have searched diligently for the above and younger forms of this 

 species, but without success, until about a week ago, when, after a couple of hours' 

 work, I was rewarded with the sight of one, and theu another, until I took about 



