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or colourless lino along upper side as in pinetirola, but also with similar trans- 

 parent elongated white patches in the three distal cells contained by radius 

 4 + 5 and media 1, media 1 and 2, and media 2 and cubitus 1 respectively. 



The ci'oss-veins connecting svib-costa and radius, radius and radial-ramus, 

 and cubitus 2 and analis respectively, are not only weaker than the other veins 

 but also, for the most part, white or colourless, and therefore very difficult to 

 distinguish — a striking feature not described in pineticola and which suggests 

 the trivial name. The second of these cross-veins does not strike the stem of 

 the fork as in inneticola, but rather the fork-point (as in var. tetensi), or in one 

 wing, the upper arm of the fork just above the fork-point. 



I have made a few further remarks on this capture in " The 

 Vasculum," a new quarterly magazine, to be devoted largely to the 

 Natural History of our Northern Counties, and to illustrated articles 

 on the more obscvire and less studied groups. 



South Hylton : 



May 9th, 1915. 



A new North-Country periodical. — The first number of The Vasculum is 

 advertised to be ready for issiie by June 1st. It is described as an illustrated 

 Quarterly, dealing primarily with the natural history of Northumberland and 

 Diirham, and the tracts immediately adjacent thereto. As this magazine will 

 deal largely with the obscvire and "neglected" Orders of insects and other 

 Arthropods we can commend it to oi\r readers. The editors are the Rev. J. E. 

 Hull, R. S. Bagnall, G. Bolam, and J. W. H. Harrison, and the annual subscrip- 

 tion is 4/-, 4 parts to be issued in 1915. — Eds. 



The food-plant of Philopedon geminatus F. (Cneorrhinus plagiatus Schall.), — 

 With reference to the food-plants of this species, it may be of interest to record 

 that in February of this year I received numerous specimens of the beetle from 

 Guernsey, where it was said to be attacking "runner" beans in a glass house. 

 In the "Review of Applied Entomology," Vol. Ill, Series A, p. 198 (April, 1915), 

 an abstract of a report by Ritzema Bos states that in Holland it also attacks 

 peas, rhubarb, and budded roses. Judging by this and other reports it appears 

 that P. geminatus is a- general feeder, and in this respect much resembles 

 Otiorrhynchus picipes F. — J. C. F. Fryer, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 Northumberland Avenvxe, London, W,0. : May Idth, 1915. 



The food-plant of Chilosia variabilis Panzer. — A number of Syrphid larvae 

 were found in September, 1914, feeding in the tuberous roots of Scrophularia 

 nodosa Linn, at Warboys, Hunts. Owing to a series of accidents most of the 

 specimens were destroyed, and only one larva pupated. This pupa produced an 

 adult Chilosia variabilis Panz. on May 7th. Mr. Edwards, of the Natural 

 History Mviseum, who kindly identified the fly, writes that Chilosia gigantea 



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