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varleyata showing up in any of them. The specimens from this year's brood were 

 again paired together, and it remains to be seen what they will produce next year. 



I may add that having been so unfortunate with my liberated larvae, I had col- 

 lected forme afterwards from the gardens near my house, towards two thousand 

 wild larvreand pupae, and from them I bred no less than six varleyata (fire $ S and 

 one ? ), an unusually large percentage. With them appeared other very pretty 

 forms, notably a pale ? , with the usual orange entirely replaced by olive-green.— 

 Geo. T. Porritt, Dalton, Huddersfield : November 4th, 1908. 



On some Irish Hymenoptera. — Mr. H. W. Andrews has been so good as to 

 present me with some interesting Hymenoptera, collected by him in Cork, Kerry and 

 Waterford during the past two seasons ; he was mainly in search of Diptera, and 

 these specimens were merely picked up at odd intervals in the midst of his own 

 specialities. I am indebted to the Kev. K. D. Morice for the names of the Saw-flies, 

 and to Mr. Saunders for those of the Bees and Wasps. 



Parasitica. 



Calichneumon derasus, Wesm., $ , Kenmare, 26.vii.<'8. Bariehneumon lepidus, 

 Grav., (J , a specimen with a long streak of pollen firmly affixed to each side of the 

 face, between the scrobes and the clypeus, but not reaching the latter ; Stradbally, 

 22— 30.vi.07. Ichneumon extensorius, Linn., ?, Glengarriff, 3 viii.08. Alomyia 

 debellator, Fab., ?, Stradbally, 27— 30.vi.08. Microcryplus bifrons, Grmel., S , 

 Kenmare. 29.vii.08. Microcryptus labralis, Grav., 3 , Stradbally, 2.'— 30.vi.07. 

 Phygadeuon exiguus, Grav., J , Stradbally, 22 — 30.vi.O7. Acroricnus macrobatus, 

 Grav., ? , one very small specimen of only 10 mm. in length ; a very local species in 

 Hants and Devon ; Stradbally, 22 — 30. vi. 07. Ephialtes tuberculatus. Fourc, ? . 

 Stradbally, 22— 30.vi.07. Pimp/a instigator, Fab., ? , a very large specimen, Strad- 

 bally, 22— 30.vi.07. Meniscus catatenator, Panz., ?, Stradbally, 22 — 30.vi.07, 

 Henicospilus ramidulus, Linn., J, Loo Bridge, 22.vii.08. Anomalon cerinops, 

 Grav.. ?, Loo Bridge, 28.vii.08. Meloboris crass ico mis, Grav., ?, Kenmare, 

 26.vii.08. 



BraconiD-E : — Microgaster sticticus, Ruthe, $ , Kenmare, 29.vii.08. 



ACULEATA. 



Chrysis ignita,~Lm\\., $ , Stradbally, 22 — I'O.vi 07. tSalivs exaltatns, ¥ab., J ? 

 Loo Bridge, 28.vii.U8. Nysson spinosus, Fab, 2 £ $ , Loo Bridge, 28.vii.08, and 

 Stradbally, 22 — 30.vi.07. Mellinus arvensis, Linn., $ , this " had made a burrow 

 ending in three pockets, two of which were stored with paralysed flies, and each 

 contained a small larva, and the third was empty, or else I missed the contents. I 

 tried to feed up one of the larva;, but it died in about a week," Glengarriff, 7. viii.08. 

 Crahro dimidiatus, Fab., $ , Kenmare, 1 — fi.viii.07. Vesj>a austriaca, Panz., ?, 

 Kenmare, 1 — ti.viii.07. Odynerus ptctus, Curt., $ <j? , Stradbally, 27— 30.vi.07. 

 Odynerus trimarginatus, Zett., J, Stradbally, 27— 30.vi.07. IJalictus rubi- 

 cundus, $, Kenmare, 27. vii. 08. H. smeathmanellus, 2 9 ?, Stradbally, 22 — 3O.vi.07. 

 Andrenafucata, Smith, S , Stradbally, 22 — 30.vi.07. Nomada alternata, <? , Strad- 

 bally, 27— 30.vi.07. 



Tenthredinid^. 



Abia fasciata, Linn., <? , Stradbally, 22 — 30.vi.07. Abia candens, Knw., <j? , 



