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and rubbish roughly swept up I eventually secured eight or nine 

 larvfe, evidently Xanthiid, and which, consequently, I fondly hoped 

 were those I wanted. Instead, however, they proved, on emergence, 

 to be Xanthia cerafio and Mdlinia fiilrar^o, one of which species habitually 

 feeds on sallow and the other on wych-elm. All the specimens were 

 beautifully large and well-coloured. — Percy C. Reid, Feering Bury, 

 Kelvedon. September IGth, 1908. 



(-glURRENT NOTES. 



Dr. Joy adds [F'nt. Mo. Mai/.) Aniaotoma flaricurnis, Ch., to the 

 list of British coleoptera, on the strength of specimens captured on 

 June 8th and following days at Bradfield (?), by sweeping grass 

 growing by the side of a watercress bed. The same observer describes 

 a new form of Simins aw/iistatufi under the name of lyonessiiis from the 

 Scilly Isles, where he also captured CruptophcKjas Iiirtulns, Kr. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice adds Coelioxi/s (I'jra, Lep., to the list of 

 British bees, the specimen having been taken some years ago in the 

 New Forest. 



Mr. Malloch adds Kccoptomera niicrups, Mg., and Af/runnjza hicornis, 

 Kalt., to the list of British diptera, the former taken in moles' nests 

 near Oxford and Bonhill (Dumbarton), widely distant localities, and 

 the latter from the same localities as well as from the Clyde district, 

 probably Glasgow. 



Commander J. J. Walker represented the Entomological Society of 

 London at the Jubilee Commenoration of the Oxford University 

 Museum, held at Oxford University on October 8th. 



In his paper " On the British species of Phora" [Ent. Mo. Ma;/.) 

 Dr. Wood describes more new species, viz., retroversa (Stoke Wood), 

 ftm-inervis (Chippenham Fen, Bonhill), paladosa (near Ross, banks of 

 the Wye, and Monnow, etc.), spiuiijera (Ashperton Park, Stoke Wood), 

 cainpestris (distributed as far north as Bonhill). 



Mr. Champion points out that two species have been confused in 

 collections under the name Calodera nii/rita, Mann., one of the true 

 C. ni(/iita, Mann., the other C. protensa, Mann.; the true C. nii/rita 

 occurs in the London district, Reigate, Woking, Iwade, etc., the other 

 has only yet been recognised from near Colchester. 



Mr. Edward Saunders afRrnis that Halictns lon(/tiltis, Smith, is 

 merely a small form of Id. inalachurns. 



The Hon. N. C. Rothschild describes {Ent. Mo. Mag.) a new flea 

 taken in July, in the Scilly Isles, from the nest of a puffin, by 

 Dr. Joy, as Ornithopsylla laetitiae. 



Mr. Champion records {Ent. Mo. Mag.) Aleochara crasaiuscula, 

 Sahib., as a British insect, on the strength of specimens taken under 

 dung on the denes at Great Yarmouth, in May, by Mr. W. West, of 

 Greenwich. 



Mr. Newbery adds Centhorrht/nchus parrulKs, Bris., to the British 

 list from specimens taken in June, by Mr. P. de la Garde, on Lepidiion 

 lu'terop/iyllKin, at Braunton, Devon. 



Mr. Malloch describes I'hora intenncdia as a British species, and 

 states that it is very common at Bonhill, in May and June, every 

 year. He further adds the Dipteron, Hyadina nitida, Mcq., to the 

 British list from a specimen taken last September (1907), at Bonhill. 



