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Phi/to melanocephala, Mg., bred from wood-lice taken at Bembridge, 

 I. of W., August, 1908, with pupsi?, and a wood-louse with dipterous 

 pupa in sitit. The life-histoiy of the fly was hitherto unknown, though 

 the larvfe of Ehinophora atrainentoria, Mg., a nearly-related species, 

 have been recorded as parasitic on Onisciis aselliis, Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe. Gynandromorphic Pieris napi. — A gynandromorphic example 

 of Fieris napi, bred from parents taken in North Cornwall this year, 

 Mr. A. Harrison. Rare British Odonata. — Rare and interesting 

 dragon-flies taken in the British Isles in 1908, including (a) Synipe- 

 trnm fonscolonibii, Selys. — A 3' and ? , taken in Hertfordshire on 

 June 24th and July 27th respectively ; (b) Sematochlora metalUca, 

 Lind., a ^ captured in Sussex on August 4th, being the first authentic 

 record of this insect in England ; Dr. Buchanan White discovered the 

 insect in Scotland in 1869, and Mr. J. King, of Glasgow, took it again 

 in 1899 in the same locality; (c) Anax imperator, Leach, a g caught 

 with Libelltda depressa, $ , in its jaws in Hertfordshire on June 24th ; 

 (f/) Libellnla depressa, Linn., two ? s taken late in the season, showing 

 the appearance of blue powder on the abdomen ; (e) Libellnla (juadri- 

 macidata, Linn., four specimens ; two taken in Sussex, showing the 

 remarkable difference in the amount of suffusion on the wings in 

 individuals ; the other two from widely different localities, one from 

 North Wales, showing great, and one from Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 

 showing very little, wing-suft'usion. The greatly sufi'used specimen 

 from Sussex had no black suffusion under the pterostigma, which is 

 normal, Mr. E. R, Speyer. Rare British Odonata. — Specimens 

 of Aeschna isosceles and Libellnla fulva from Norfolk Broads, taken in 

 June last, and Orthetrum caerulescens from Chagford, taken in July, 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten. Parasites on Flies. — A spike of the grass 

 Molinia caernlea with dead Syrphids, Melanostoma scalare, Fabr., 

 attacked by the parasitic fungus, Kiiipusa vniscae, found on Esher 

 Common, October 3rd, 1908. Many, or most, were attacked by the 

 point of the head only, in a very peculiar manner, and apparently all 

 were females, Mr. W. J. Lucas. Cryptamorpha desjardinsi in Hamp- 

 shire. — A specimen of Cryptamorpha desjardinsi, Guer., that had been 

 found by Mr. C. F. Selous running on a table-cloth in his house at 

 Barton-on-Sea, Hants, on June 26th. This beetle is recorded as 

 living on banana plants in Mauritius and Madeira, and may have been 

 introduced here in the banana fruit, Mr. 0. E. Janson. Rare British 

 Hemiptera. — Specimens of the following insects : Aleochara crassius- 

 cula, Sahib., taken at Gt. Yarmouth in May, 1908 ; aberrations oiDoyi- 

 acia dentipes and D. simplex, from Caistor Marshes ; Nabis boops, 

 Schiodte, taken at Esher, in August, 1908 ; and Idiocerus scurra, 

 Germ., taken at Blackheath, Kent, in September, 1908, Mr. G. C. 

 Champion. Rare and Variable British Heterocera. — Specimens of 

 (a) Crymodes exulis from the Shetlands, including one female. The 

 female of this species is very rare and until this season (when some 

 six or seven were taken) only a very few were known. One <y 

 exhibited w^as of the rich dark brown form, while the rest were of the 

 light brown form ; (b) Calliworplta doiiriniila, two yellow aberrations 

 bred from East Kent ova. In 1906 a yellow $ was bred. This was 

 paired with a typical red <? and the result in 1907 was that the whole 

 brood consisted of typical "reds." These" reds "werepaired, and, in 1908, 



