277 



1908]. £ ' ' 



Stradbally, 22— 80.vi.07. Arge ustulata, Linn., <? , Stradbally, 22— 30.vi.07- 

 Allantus arcuatus, Forst., G-lengarriff, 3.viii.08. Tenthredopsis ooqueberti, King, ? , 

 Stradbally, 22— 80.ti.07. Tenthredo livida, Linn., 2? ?, Stradbally, 22— 30.vi.07, 

 and on 19.viii.08. — Claude Morley, Monka Soham House, Suffolk, Oct. 15th, 1908. 



Eccoptomera microps, Mg., and other Diptera in moles' nests in the east of 

 Scotland.— In the August number of this Magazine, p. 180, Mr. Malloch records 

 Eccoptomera microps, Mg. — another interesting addition to the list of British 

 Diptera— from the Oxford district and Dumbartonshire. These records I am able 

 to supplement by (he following from the east of Scotland, where I found the same 

 fly in moles' nests on several occasions last spring. My specimens have been shown 

 to Mr. Collin. Near Largo (Fife), Februnry 19th, 1908, two $ $ in separate nests ; 

 Prof. Hudson Beai-e was with me when these were obtained ; we were looking in 

 moles' nests (of which we examined a dozen) for beetles. Gullane (East Lothian), 

 March 5th, $ . South of Leadburn (Peeblesshire), April 4th, $ and ? . Besides 

 the Eccoptomera, I also got some other Diptera, as under, in moles' nests. Lon- 

 choptera Jutea, Pz., var. palustris, south of Leadburn, April 4th, 1908, two ? ? ; 

 named for me by Mr. Collin. Limosina sp. ?, Largo, February 19th, Gullane, 

 March 5th, several ? $ . Sciara sp. ?, two specimens, Gullane, March, aud a Chiro- 

 nomid, several, Gullane, Eavelrig, Leadburn and Elie. — William Evans, Morning- 

 side Park, Edinburgh : September ZOth, 1908. 



Sympetrum fonscofombii : a correction. —At the meeting of the Entomological 

 Society on Oct. 7th last, a male and female Sympetrum fonscolombn, De Selys, were 

 exhibited, and in the account of their capture in Hertfordshire it was stated that the 

 insect had not been taken in Britain since the year 1892 when Mr. Briggs recorded 

 specimens from Surrey, and that the female was probably the first that had ever been 

 recorded in England. 



This is a mistake, for Mr. Boyd has recorded the insect in 1903 from Cornwall, 

 where he took a female in June (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 201). — E. R. Speyer, 

 Ridgehurst, Shenley, Herts : November llth, 1908. 



[This specimen was, up to the time of his death, in the late Mr. R. McLachlan's 

 collection. -G. T. P.] 



^octettes. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : The opening meeting 

 of this Society was held on October 19th at the Koyal Institution, Colquitt Street, 

 Liverpool, Mr. Wm. Mansbridge, Vice-President, in the Chair. The meeting was 

 exhibitional in character, the members showing results of the season's work. 



Mr. Robert Tait, Jr., brought a long series of Agrotis agathina, bred from 

 Welsh larvoe, and noted that the red form occurred much more frequently among 

 wild imagines than among moths bred at Manchester from larvae taken on the same 

 ground earlier in the year. From the Isle of Wight, fine series of the following : — 

 Agrotis lunigera, A. cinerea, Acidatia humiliata, Setina irrorella ; from Pendine, 

 S. Wales, Boarmia repandata var. conversaria, Callimorpha dominula ; from Lake- 

 side, Numeria pulveraria, Tephrosia consonaria, and a very long series of T. biun- 



