140 [June, 



statements, e.g., "June 9th last " (p. 102) and " August 12th to October 19th last " 

 (p. 104), making it appear that the larv?e under observation were collected, and the 

 moths bred, in 1905, whereas this really took place in 1904, as was clearly shown so 

 long as the date, as written by me and as printed in the " revise " before me, stood 

 as "January 16th, 1905." The change has also made my " Supplementary Note" 

 (pp. 105 — 106) an absurdity, for it is obvious that if my original notes had been 

 only made on larvae collected on June 9th, 1905, I could hardly have added a 

 supplementary one regarding larvae collected on May 5th, 1905 " ! Will readers 

 please alter " 1906," on p. 105, to " 1905 " ?— Id., May ^th, 1906. 



The host of Nomada soUdaginis. — With i-eference to Mr. Frisby's note on this 

 subject in this month's Ent. Mo. Mag., I may mention that in West Perthshire 

 during August and September, 1902, Nomada soUdaginis was common in a number 

 of localities ; and I noticed -that it always occurred where there w.is a colony of 

 Andrena fuscipes. Other species — A. cetii (dark variety) for instance — might or 

 might not also be present. On September 11th, near Strathyre, I saw one of these 

 Nomadas enter a burrow, which I thereupon dug up, securing the intruder (a ? ), 

 and a female Andrena fuscipes. Both specimens were shown shortly afterwards to 

 Mr. E. Saunders, who informed me that he had previously heard of the association 

 of these two species from Mr. Perkins. — William Evans, 38, Morningside Park, 

 Edinburgh : April 30th, 1906. 



Formieoxenus nitidulus, Nyl., in the Northumberland and Durham district. — 

 At a recent Meeting of the Entomological Society of London, April 4th, 1906 {vide 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii, p. 120) I notice that "Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 specimens of the very rare ant, Formieoxenus nitidulus, $ , found in a nest of Formica 

 rufa at Weybridge during the pi-esent month. Mr. A. J. Chitty said he had taken 

 a single ? of the species in the Blean Woods, Kent, and the Rev. F. D. Morice 

 reported it common in Switzerland, where he had taken examples of all three sexes 

 abnndantly." 



Tt is a pleasure to give this interesting little ant a place in the faunistic lists of 

 Northumberland and Durham. Last month, whilst working the huge nests of For- 

 mica rufa which are so abundant in the extensive Tynedale pine woods near Hexham 

 and Corbridge, Formieoxenus nitidulus was taken in some numbers ; it occurred 

 in every "hill " examined, and was found to be most plentiful where the wood- 

 ants were " massing." It remains for me to thank Mr. E. Saunders for so kindly 

 examining my captures. — Richard S. Baqnall, Winlaton-on-Tyne : 3Iay 12, 1906. 



A correction. — In the last No., page 117, lines 4 and 9, the word Platyna 

 should read Platyura. Since writing my notes a friend has written to say he thinks 

 the black-bodied one is P. semirufa^ Mg., and I shall be glad if others who have 

 received specimens can confirm this. — F. C. Adams, Ashley Grardens, S.W. : 

 May, 1906. 



Fntomology at the forthcoming 3IeHing of the British Association — At the 

 Meeting of the British Association to be held this year at York (August 1st to 8th) 

 it is proposed that there shall be an Exhibition of British Lepidoptera illustrating 



