iTieiition : Mycetophagus qiu.driguttatus, from a granary in liolborn, March 2itli ; 

 Conopalpus testaceus, Bishop'.' Wood, April 11th ; Dryoccetes coryli, Coonibe Wood, 

 July 25' h; Fr tonus corit" ' ,?, Dasytes nfger, and Cyrtotriplax blpttstulata, lHew 

 Forest, early I'n A Morust • ' ( idula ritjipes, Gravesend, Septemher 12th; in August, 

 1890, I found a specimen of Oberea oculata at Wicken Fen. — Horace St. J. 

 DoNisTiiORPE, 37, Court field Gardens, South Kensington : May, 1892. 



CicindeJa campestris and Halictus ruhicundus. — I was amused whilst watching 

 for Hymenoptera in a sort of quarry near here to see a Cicindela pounce upon a 

 Halictus ruhicundus. I was interested as to how matters would go, and amused to 

 see the Cicindela quickly relax its grasp, and the Halictus fly off ; the Cicindela 

 immediately afterwards apparently cleaning its mouth up with its front tarsi, as if 

 the encounter had not been agreeable ; H. ruhicundus, I know, can sting pretty 

 sharply, but whether it used its sting in this case or not I had no means of judging, 

 but Cicindela being so much the larger and stronger insect of the two, I think 

 the Halictus could not have got out of its grasp without using some means of 

 defence other than bodily strength. — Edwaed Saundees, Broad Park, Ilfracombe : 

 Hay \Qth, 1892. 



Epeolus productus, Thorns., and rujipes, Thorns. — Last year, when setting some 

 female examples of E. rujipes, Thorns., I noticed two processes protruding beyond 

 the apex of the 5th ventx-al segment. I accordingly pulled the apical segments out 

 as far as I could, and put the specimens away for examination on some future occa- 

 sion. I have just had an opportunity of examining thera, and find that these 

 processes are lateral productions of the 6th ventral segment, which lies hidden 

 beneath the 5th. I have not noticed any such processes in other genera, and they 

 are useful in affording a good specific character between two very closely allied 

 species. In ruftpes, Thorns., each process is about four times as long as wide, sub- 

 parallel sided, the sides converging to the apex in convex lines, the apex being 

 pointed ; the sides near the apex are roughened but not distinctly dentate, between 

 the processes the apical margin of the segment is slightly and angularly produced 

 in the centre, and fringed with short haii's In productus, Thoms , the processes 

 are longer and more spatulate in form, the sides of the slightly dilated apical portion 

 are distinctly dentate, and the apical margin of the segment between the processes 

 is truncate and fringed with much longer hairs than in rujipes. — Id., St. Ann's, 

 Woking: May 6th. 1892. 



Gossyparia ulmi. — This remarkable Coccid was first noticed by Eeaumur without 

 name, except that of the " Progallinsecte " of the elm ; he gives its natural history 

 and figures the female in all its stages (Mem., T. iv, p. 154, pi. vii, figs. 1 — 10, 1738). 

 De Geer, under the name of Coccus farinosus alni, also described the same species 

 as found on the alder, and gave figures of the female in all stages (Mem., vi, p. 443, 

 pi. 28, figs. 16—22, 1776). Geoffroy, however, had previously described the same 

 insect as Coccus ulmi, citing Eeaumur only, but without quoting any figure, and his 

 specific name takes precedence by prioi'ity (Hist. abr. dee Insectes, T. i, p. 512). 

 Signoret describes and figures both J and ^* , the former for the fir.st time, but it is 



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