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one Crypt ocephalus sexpunctatus at the same flower. Tomoxia biguttata was qviite 

 a good find. 1 do not think I found a single specimen on flowers, but all running 

 over an old stump ; but both Mordella fasciata and M. aculeata were about in 

 flowers of various kinds. I also found Platypus cylindrus on the same stump 

 as the Tomoxia. 



Last Sunday I saw a very fine <? Apatura iris ; it settled in the road quite 

 close to me. I also netted a Limenitis sibylla, Argynnis adippe and A. paphia are 

 fairly common, and earlier, Brenthis, A.eiq^hrosyne and selene, Nemeohius lucina, 

 Callophrys ruhi, Nisoniades tages, Hesperia inalvae, and Parasemia plantaginis 

 were all fairly common. — P. H. Harwood, 15th Platoon, 10th Royal Fusiliers, 

 Lvidgershall, Wilts : July 20th, 1915. 



The food-plant of Philopedon geininatus F. — In view of the recent com- 

 munications to this Magazine respecting the food-plant of Philopedon geminatus, 

 it may be of interest to note that on April 27th, 1914, I found a $ actvially 

 eating a blade of ordinary grass, at Compton Heath, near Gi^ildford. The place 

 at which the insect was found coxild not by any means be called sandy, but a 

 more or less sandy common is near. — Michael G. L. Perkins, Dean's Yard, 

 Westminster Abbey, S.W. : July 2nd, 1915. 



Rhynchites axiratus : a correction. — I regret to state that the insect captured 

 in Charlton Forest, and i-ecorded as Rhynchites auratus ^ , at p. 218 of this 

 Magazine, turns out to be merely a $ of Byctiscus betuleti with the hind coxae 

 badly displaced, so as to be visible up to the side pieces of the metasternum. — 

 Michael G. L. Perkins : July 17th, 1915. 



Phyllotreta diademata : a correction. — In my notes on this species, p. 239 

 ante, in line 14, after "the abdomen," the words "of the male" are omitted. — 

 D. Sharp, Brockenhurst .- August 7th, 1915. 



Xiphydria prolong ata Geoffroy (^dromedarius Fabr.) in Cambridgeshire, and 

 X. camelus Linn, in the New Forest. — A male of the interesting wood-feeding 

 saw-fly Xiphydria prolongata was taken on Jiily 4th, 1915, by Messrs. H. F. and 

 J. C. F. Fryer at Holwoods, near Chatteris, Cambs. I am indebted to 

 them for presenting it to the Cambridge Museum. It was found sitting on 

 the green stem of a willow in a willow-bed. The red colour on the abdomen is 

 not conspicuous but rather dull : it is present on a small area in the middle of 

 the second dorsal segment, over the whole of the third, and on the basal portion 

 of the fourth (the propodeuni not being reckoned as part of the abdomen). I can 

 find no record of the species from Cambridgeshire, though Mr. Morice tells me 

 its occurrence in this county is quite as he should expect, and that he considers 

 it might be found anywhere where willows abound. It is recorded from the 

 London District, Norfolk, and the New Forest (Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent , 

 Vol. VII, 1835, p. Ill, and Cameron, Mon. Brit. Phyt. Hym., Vol. Ill, 1890, 

 p. 129). Both Stephens and Cameron refer to its attachment to willows, and 

 Mr. Morice once discovered a number of males in the hollow interior of a half- 



