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female hare also been taken near Stockholm by M.. A. Roman on the juice exuding 

 from an old oak. The curiosity is in the form of the abdomen of the female ; its 

 two basal segments and the base of the third are comparatively round, but the re- 

 mainder are laterally pressed flat as if by accident with a heavy weight. It was 

 captured on June 17th, 1889. — Gr. C. Bignell, The Ferns, Home Park Road, 

 Saltash : April 16th, 1908. 



[In my Synopsis of the Pala?arctic Bassides (Trans. Ent. Soc., 1905, pp. 119-138), 

 I was able to instance only four British specimens of Trichomaatix jlavipes, of which 

 I had seen but one male. The female is described by Bridgman as a new species 

 (Bassus tibialis) in Trans. Ent. Soc, 1883, p. 170, on the strength of three speci- 

 mens ; two of which were bred by Mr. J. K. Fletcher from pupae of some Dipteron 

 dug up at Worcester on May 22nd, 1872, the third was taken by Mr. F. Norgate, 

 probably (Trans. Norfolk Soc, 1893, p. 629) in Norfolk. The genus was erected by 

 Vollenhoven (Tijdschr. voor Ent., 1878, p. 161) for the reception of the present 

 species, there also described as new under the name T. polita, " trouve dans les 

 dunes de Scheveningue." It was, however, first described by Holmgren (Sv. Ak. 

 Handl., 1855, p. 356) " Hab. in Smolandia ad Anneberg, rarius ;" and is also re- 

 corded from Silesia and Denmark by Thomson (Opusc. Ent., xiv, 14741, " Utklackt 

 ur en Scsova-puppa." Its habit of frequenting exuding sap has not before been re- 

 corded, and is, so far as I am aware, unique among the Ichneumonidx. The abdomen 

 in Mr. Bigneli's specimens varies considerably in length, and the segments appear to 

 be unusually retractile in this species, which is much more closely allied to Phtho- 

 rimus anomalus, Mori., than, in my previous ignorance of its female, I had suspected. 

 — Claude MoRLEr]. 



Scarce Tenthredinidx. — In the last instalment of " Help-Notes " Mr. Morice 

 mentions the occurrence of several rare British species, to these I would add two 

 more. Pamphilius gyllenhali, Dhlb. — -Mr. E. A. Atmore took a 5 in June, 1903, 

 near King's Lynn on flowers of Heracleum sphondylium, which has been sent to 

 Mr. Morice and determined by him ; it is the second British specimen. Xyphydria 

 camelus, L. — Taken by Mr. R. Brameld in the New Forest in 190fi, and now in the 

 collection of Mr. A. E. Gribbs, of St. Albans. I believe one or more others were 

 taken in that district about the same time. Mr. Morice writes (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 1904, p. 38), " Most British specimens are from Scotland or the North of England ; 

 it has never been sent to me by any correspondent..'' It is recorded from the New 

 Forest (Entomologist, xxxiv, p. 54). - E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling : May 8th, 1908. 



Diptera in Dumbartonshire in 1907. — The year 1907 proved fairly productive 

 of Diptera, though most of the other Orders were not much in evidence. Quite a 

 large number of rare species were taken, and our local list is now in something like 

 a satisfactory state. Among others, the following species were met with, most of 

 them being additions to the West of Scotland list -.—Rhamphomyia xthiops, Ztt. ; 

 Empis lutea, Mg. ; Pachymeria femoratus, F., P. palparis, Egg. ; Ragas unica, 

 Wlk., common on trunks of trees ; Trichina Jlavipes, Mg. ; Euthyneura myricx, 

 Wlk., one specimen ; Drapetis nervosa, Lw., one specimen at Cardross ; Cherso- 

 dromia arenaria, Hal., \cvy common at Cardross among stones and seaweed on the 

 shore ; Tachydromia pubicornis, Ztt., T. varia, Wlk., T. calceata, Mg., common, T. 



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