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[since tlic above was written I have found yet a third $ specimen of P. lienig- 

 lulls, which my friend the Rev. W. Manscll Merry .took in his garden at North 

 Oxford — within less than half a mile of my house— by " mothing" after dark with 

 the aid of a lantern, in August, 1907. — J. J. W.] 



Hymenoptera in the Few Forest, Sfc. — This summer, during the month of July, 

 I have been able to add the following species to my previous lists for the New 

 Forest: — Myrmica lobicornis. Tiphia minuta. Salius pusillus, 1 J. Calicurgus 

 ht/alinatuSyl V • Trypoxylon clavicerum. Psen < unicolor, 1 $. Crabro clavipes ; 

 C. varius. Odynents melanocephalus. Sphecodes reliculatus, 1 ? ; S. spinulosis. 

 3 9 ; S. puncticeps ; S. longulits ; S. ferruginatus ; S. hyalinatus, 1 9; &• affinis, 

 ]falictus puncticollis, 6 9 ; H. breviceps, 2 9 . Andrena niveata, 1 9 (Lymington). 

 Cilissa leporina, 4 g . Dufourea vulgaris, 1 9 . Nomada sexfasciata, 1 $ . Caelioxys 

 acuminata. Megachile circumcincta, 1 9 ; M. versicolor, 2 9 and 1 S ■ Stelis 

 alerrinia, 2 9 • Eucera longicornis. Anthophora furcata. 



The last week in August at Bournemouth produced nothing worth recording, 

 except Andrena argentata and Ammophila hirsuta, taken on the sandhills of Poole 

 Harbour. 



Several rarities, which I have already recorded for the New Forest, again 

 turned up this year, such as Pemphredon morio, 1 9 • Oxybelus mandibular is, 

 plentifully. Crabro cetratus ; C. gonager : C. signatus, 2 9- Odynents crassi- 

 cornis, 1 9- Nomada obtusifrons, plentifully. Stelis phosoptera, (?s plentiful, 

 9 s rarer. Gorytes laticinctux ;' I obtained from Mr. B. Piffard a 9 specimen of 

 this rarity, which he took early in July near the Victoria Tile Works, Brockenhurst. 



Among the Chrysididse the following may be worth mentioning: — Chrysis 

 fulgida, 1 9 » flying round the burrows of Osmia fulvicentris in a rotten post ; 

 C. succincta, several 9 , always taken in the neighbourhood of the burrows of 

 Tachytes pectinipes. Hedychridium coriaceum, 3 $ s and 5 9s flying round and 

 entering the burrows of Crabro albilabris. 



On looking over a number of Psenulus pallipes I found a specimen which 

 I had included with them and taken at Brockenhurst in 1905. By its larger size 

 and noticeably more shining appearance I suspected it was convolor. This was 

 confirmed by Mr. Saunders, who kindly examined it for me.— G. Arnold, University 

 of Liverpool : October, 1907. 



Hemerobius marginatum, Steph., and H. orotypus, Walleng., in Upper Wharfe- 

 dale. — On August 3rd last, I found the very delicate-looking Hemerobius marginaius 

 rather commonly in the wood opposite Arncliffe village; and on September 7th 

 I beat out the perhaps still more local— though usually more abundant where it 

 occurs — Hemerobius orotypus in plenty from diseased sycamore trees in Grassington 

 Woods. I call the trees diseased because nearly every leaf on apparently all the 

 trees was affected by the unsightly fungus parasite Rhytisma acerinum, which gave 

 to that part of the wood a most unhealthy appearance. I never noticed sycamores 

 in such a condition before, and why H. orotypus should practically be frequenting 

 only such trees is not easy to explain. — Geo. T. Porkitt, Edgerton, Huddersfield : 

 December 16th, 1907. 



