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kept her alive for a couple of days, but only obtained a very few eggs, from which 

 I hope I have about a score of pupae; and so am looking forward to knowing more 

 about the form next spring. It will be interesting too, to observe how many years 

 will elapse before the form becomes comparatively common. — Geo. T. I'oreitt, 

 Huddersfield : September bth, 1906. 



Aristotelia lucideLla, Stph. : a correction. — With reference to Mr, Thurnall's 

 observation, Ent. Mo. Mag., XLII, 211 (1906), I wish to confirm his record by 

 stating that the plant from which I bred the insect was most certainly Eleocharis 

 palustris and not Scirpus lacustris as recorded by me Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXIV, 

 205 (1898). 



I am quite at a loss to account for the error, which is one of name and not of 

 observation, for the two plants were growing together in the same place. I named 

 them both correctly at the time, but by some mistake the names must have been 

 transposed.— Walsing HAM, Merton Hall, Thetford : August '11 th, 1906. 



Crabro carbonarius, Sfc, in the South of Scotland.— As Mr. Saunders in his 

 "Additions and Corrections to the List of British St/menoptera since 1896," just 

 published in this Magazine, gives no locality for Crabro carbonarius, Dahlb., south 

 of Inverness-shire, I may mention that I took a female of this species at Saltoun, 

 Haddingtonshire, on July 11th, 1904?. In August, 1902, the same locality yielded 

 me Crabro aphidum, Lep., $ , and C. capitosus, S • C. aphidum has been recorded 

 from Loch Ard, Perthshire, by Mr. Carter (lint. Mo. Mag., 1901, p. 277). Besides 

 the males of Andrena ruficrus, Nyl., taken by me at Aberfoyle in April, 1896, 1 have 

 a female obtained at the same place on May 7th, 1902, as recorded in Annals Scot. 

 Nat. Hist., 1902, p. 186. Mr. Saunders Has seen all the above-mentioned specimens, 

 — William Evans, 38, Morningside Park, Edinburgh : September 6th, 1906. 



Eare Hymenoptera Aculeata near Holmwood, Surrey. — Quite a number of 

 some of the scarcer IIymen,optera have occurred here during August and the latter 

 part of July of this year, as follows : — Salius affinis, one $ on Achillea ; I'assalcecus 

 monilicornis ; Crabro pubescens, both sexes abundantly on raspberry and currant 

 leaves ; C. anxius, one $ ; Prosopis cornuta, dllatala and confusa ; Sphecodes ferru- 

 ginatus and variegatus S S and puncticeps, on Umbellifene commonly ; Ralictus 

 Issvigatus and freygessneri ; Andrena rosx, one ? ; cetii, ^ 9 only; lucens; Ceratina 

 cyanea, one J one ? ; Stelis phoeoptera. 



Of the above the most noteworthy are, perhaps, Cr. ^:>«<be.9cew.y, Ceratina, and 

 Pr. dilatata. The latter I took on at least four different plants, i. e., bramble, 

 Achillea, wild carrot, and on one of the smaller white Umbelliferx. The ^ of 

 Ceratina hovered more like one of the Syrphidse over a blossom of Pulicaria, while 

 the ? was flying slowly through heather, but a careful watch kept subsequently on 

 both plants proved fruitless. Echium, its reputed favourite, does not grow here (to 

 my knowledge), nor could I find it visiting any of the Labiates as Friese states it 

 will do. Mr. Saunders informed me that, according to Prof. Perez, it patronises 

 daisies on the Continent, but these were also drawn blank. The possibility of finding 

 it on Lamium, heather, Echium, Pulicaria, and daisies, would seem to show that 

 Ceratina is as capricious in its bill of fare as it undoubtedly has been in its ap- 

 pearances to its would-be captor, — C. H. Mortimer, Holmwood : Aug. ZOth, 1906, 



