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Athalia Scutellaria in Cheshire. — On AugiisL IStli and 25tli, 190G, I found a 

 number of larvae of an Athalia feeding on Scutellaria galerlculata at Great Bud- 

 worth, near Northwich. I compared them with the description and \)\vLte oi Athalia 

 scutellarix, Cameron, in Cameron's '' Monograph of the British Phytophagous 

 Hymenoptera" (Vol. i, p. 313, pi. Ill, fig. 9, Kay Soc., 1882), and concluded that 

 they were referable to this species ; Mr. Edward Saunders and the Rev. F. D. 

 Morice, to whom I sent some examples, are also of this opinion, Mr. Cameron 

 remarks (o/>. ciY., p. 314), "The only locality I know of is Grioucester, where the 

 larvae were found by Mr. Allan Harker, who obligingly sent them to me," and when 

 he first described the species (Ent. Mo- Mag., xvii, p. QQ, 1880), said that he suc- 

 ceeded in rearing the perfect insects during the last weeks in June ; these Gloucester 

 larvae were obtained in the autumn of 1879. 



The larva of the closely allied A. rosse, Linn,, is not described or figured by 

 Cameron, but he states in an Appendix to vol iv that Brischke describes the larva 

 of ^. .st'M^e//ar/ct' under the name of ro5c"e. Most of the larvae which I found on 

 August 25th were apparently full fed, but there were also some much smaller 

 examples; on September 1st the plant on which I found most of the larvae was 

 withered and dead, and I could not find any on another group of plants where on 

 the 25th I found a few. — T. A. Coward, Bowdon, Cheshire : September, 1906. 



Oastrophilus nasalis, L., in the Neio Forest. — A specimen of this rare OEstrid 

 was bred by Mr, J. Piffai'd about the end of last June from a pupa found in cow- 

 dung near Brockenhurst. It has been identified by Mr. E. E. Austen, and, with 

 the empty pupa case, is in my collection,— F. C. Adams, 50, Ashley Gardens, S.W, : 

 September \st, 1906. 



Phora cubitalis, Seek., a species new to the British List. — During the last week 

 of July this year a rather conspicuous species of Phora occurred rather commonly on 

 aspen trees at Bonhill, in Dumbartonshire. Upon examination it proved to be 

 Phora cubitalis, Beck., a species not hitherto recorded from Britain. It was confined 

 to one small patch of aspens upon which the larvae of a species of Chrysomelid beetle 

 were abundant. Altogether I netted over thirty specimens. The species is easily 

 recognised in the ^ by the much dilated second thick vein, and also in both sexes 

 by the yellow legs, antennae, palpi, and yellowish humeri. Some of the specimens 

 were sent to Dr. J. H. Wood, who agreed in the identification. — J. R. Malloch, 

 Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : August, 1906. 



Mytilaspis pomorum, Bouche, on Relianthemum vulgare. — Mr. Newstead sug- 

 gests it might be well to send you a note as to this scale insect occurring on our 

 common rock I'ose. I sent him specimens, and he says I am correct in my determi- 

 nation of the insect, and in the belief that the food-plant is a new one for that 

 somewhat polyphagous species. I find the scales abundant on a plant brought in 

 from tlie chalk downs here and potted for another entomological purpose. — T. A. 

 Chapman, Betula, Reigate : September 5th, 1906. 



