116 ' [May. 



spot where my captures were made. I fancied thai all three Nomadas were para- 

 sitic on A. falvicrust, which was very coniinon in 1901 and 1902, Strange to say, A. 

 fulvicrus and all the Nomndax seem now to have aliriost disappeared. I am hoping 

 they are holding over, and if so I will try and find out whether there is not another 

 host of N. solidaginis. —Id. 



Notes on some of the scarcer Tenthredinidx . — It is but seldom that any records 

 appear of the sawflies, so I send a notice of a few of the more conspicuous 

 species which have passed through my luinds during the past year or two. The 

 opportunity of examining the Midland species was given me by Mr. A. U. 

 Martineau, of Solihull, while the species from the neighbourhood of Maidstone were 

 sent to me by Mr. H, Elgar, Curator of the Maidstone Museum. It will be 

 observed that they have been taken in various years, but are, I think, none the less 

 worthy of record on that account. I am indebted to the Rev. F. D. Morice for 

 determining or confirming many of the species, and also giving me Konow's nomen- 

 clature, which I therefore use, adding Cameron's names as given in his Monograph. 

 " British Phytophagous Hymenoptera," vols, i and iii. 



JSeuroctiaa Jiaviventris, Ketz., S and ?, Solihull; Pamphilius inanitus, Vill., 

 Strood and Maidstone, June lUth, 19U3 ; P. si/lvaticus, L., Maidstone, May 29th, 

 1903 ; /'. fulvipennis, Zadd. {sylvarum), Bentley Wood, near Ipswich, two speci- 

 mens, June 3rd, 1898, C. Morley ; Schizoceros furcatus, Vill., Wyre Forest, May 

 26th, 1890 (Ent. Mo. Mag., p. lt;5, 19j5) ; S. geminatus, Gmel, St. Albans, May, 

 1903, Mr. Gibbs ; i'arrietsham, near Maidstone, May, 1904 ; Lophyrus pl.ni,Ij., 

 Maidstone, 1898; Dolerus madidus, Klug {lateritlus), Solihull, May 21st, 1901; 

 Tenthredopsis tristis, Cam., Coleshill, June 17th, 1901 ; Macrophya rujipes, L., 

 (J and ?, near Maidstone, not scarce. May and June, 1901; M. rufipes, dark var. 

 {hxynalopus, Ca,n\.), near Maidstone, June 15th, 1904; M. hlanda, F., S and ?, 

 West Malvern, May 28th, 19iil ; Allantus maculatus, F., Wyre Forest, May 25th, 

 1890; A. vespa, Retz. (tricinctus), $ and ?, Maidstone, May, I90:i ; A. omissus, 

 Forst. {margineUus), $ , Sallerton, July lOth, 1901 ; A. zona, Klug (quadrlcinctus), 

 Wyre Forest, May 25th, 1896; A. amoenus, (jvslv. {cingulum), S and ?, Hailing, 

 near Maidstone, June, 1901 and 1905 ; Tenthredo colon, Xlug, Matlock, July 4th, 

 1900; Cannock Chase, June 8th, 1904; these two specimens were sent me by Mr. 

 Claude Morley, having been received by him from two correspondents. — K. N. 

 Bloomfield, Gruestling : March, 1906. 



Notes on Diptera in the Neto Forest, 1905. — Judging from my own experience 

 the season last year was a poor one for Diptera ; but two causes may have contri- 

 buted to this in my case, viz., not happening to be there at the best periods, and 

 advancing years preventing me from doing much work. I was at Lyndhurst during 

 part of April, part of May, the whole of July and September, and found a gi-eat 

 dearth of even the commonest flies during those periods ; but a friend of mine told 

 me he did fairly well during the latter part of June, and took some good ones, 

 including a CaUicera senea, F., which I have not seen since 1902. My visits were 

 timed for certain species, and several mornings during July were devoted to Matley 

 Bog in search of Eristalis cryptarum, F., but I hardly saw a fly of any sort, and 



