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had taken some twelre days before at rest on a curtain in his drawing-room, at 

 Eastbourne. In Slaudingor's " Catalog" this insect is reported fro™ South Europe 

 North-west Africa, and Asia Minor; but in the late Dr. Mason's colleot.on I found 

 in a drawer containing a number of foreign types two specimens of p™»uba«a, 

 <? and V. labelled from Guernsey.-SEIWTX Imagb, 20, Ktzroy Street, W. : 

 December 2>nd, 1905. 



Aculeate Hymenoptera at Fillans, Perthshire: Jane 9th to July 5t/^ 1905 - 

 Favoured by gloriously fine weather (after four consecutive wet -asons spent in he 

 Highlands), I am able to make a substantial addition to my Fort Wilham hst of 

 captures recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for December, 190t. 



8t. Fillans is charn.ingly situated in the Perthshire Highlands, sheltered by 

 the hills on all sides it enjoys a climate exceptionally mild and genial for Scot and. 

 Wild flowers of great variety are abundant, and here and there one finds httle 

 patches of gravel and sand bank so dear to Aculeates ; yet with all these advantages 

 one has to confess that Aculeates (with the exception of a very few species) are 

 extremely rare. On the other hand, Diptera are far too numerous and much too 

 energetic in their personal attentions, and are at times a positive nuisance. 



°Amon.st the Diptera there were a number of species closely resembhng: 

 Aculeates, mimics or under-studies, but in this case the principals were not to be- 

 found. Have they been supplanted and suppressed by the irrepressible Drptera,, 

 or will their turn come later on? This may suggest a little problem for futurecj 

 observation and study. Saw-flies were common and more in evidence than I have 

 usually found south of the Tweed. 



Again and as ever I have to thank Mr. Edward Saunders for his kindness m, 



naming my captures :— ^ ta n 



Formica rnja, Linn., 2 $ , P. Jnsca, Linn., common ; Lasius flavns, De G-eer, 

 common; Myrmica rubra, Linn., common; Leptothorax acervorum,¥ah., not un- 

 common; Pompilus pectir^ipcs, V. de L., rare; Salius parvulus, Dahlb., rare :|| 

 Crahro dimidiatus, Fab., rare, C. vagus, Linn., rare, C. anxius, Wesm., rare, C.pal 

 mvpes, Linn., rare; Nysson spinosus, Fab., one specimen ; Cevopales maculata, Fab. 

 one specimen ; Vespa vulgaris, Linn., rare, 7. rufa, Linn., rare, F. norv.,tca. Fab. 

 common ; Andrena albicans, Kirb., rare, A. coitana, Kirb., rare, A. anahs, Panz. 

 rare A. fucata, Smith, rare, A. minufuZa, Kirb., rare ; Nomada ochrostoma,Kivh.^ 

 rare' N. flavoguttata, Kirb., rare, N. Um, Thoms., rare, 1^ Jabriciana, Linn., rare ■ 

 Bombus hortorum, Linn , rare, B.lapid.arius,hh^u., rare, B. terre.im,Linn., common 

 B pratorum, Linn , common, B. agrorum. Fab., very common ; Psithyrus campesPn^ 

 rare, P. quadricolor, Lep., rarc-G. A. James Rothney, « Pembury," Tudor Roao 

 Upper Norwood : October 2Sth, 1905. 



Food and habits of Xanthandrus eomtus, Rarris.-ln the July Number « 

 Ent Mo. Mag. (1905), p. 150, I gave some details of this Dipteron as a parasite . 

 Easiula hyerana at Hyeres. Perchance this may not have been seen by studenii 

 of Diptera, being imbedded in Notes on a moth. 



At Hyeres, Hastula hyerana may be described as having a gregarious larv 

 and the fly larva preyed upon those of the moth, following them in their burror 

 and destroying large numbers of them. This was a somewhat isolated observati- 



