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spartiata is common about broom in September. Tanagra chcerophyllata is rather ; 

 scarce, but occurs very plentifully on the grassy hills about fifteen miles to westward. jj 

 Of Noctuce, I took in September two fine specimens of Calamia lutosa at sugar. I 

 Celcena Haivorthi is rather common on the high moorland ground, and obtained Ji 

 best by sugaring the scattered trees of Scotch fir growing there. Noctua glareosa is | 

 sufficiently common for one to obtain a good series without difficulty. Orthosia lota I 

 and macilenta are not scarce, and I took a number of each in fine condition ; also two I 

 specimens of Hecatera serena. Poll chi is very common, and the variety olivacea I 

 frequently occurs, some of a pale green, varying to a dark smoky shade, the abdomen I 

 being almost black. I took about a dozen specimens of Aplecta occulta at sugar, a I 

 few of them on the Scotch firs in the moorland locality, where Celcena Haworthi 1 

 occurs. At the same place, Haclena adusta swarms at sugar in June ; and in a il 

 leaf- wood bank near to this, and also on hedgerow trees, thalassina and contigua are I 

 pretty common. Of the Calocampce, I took ten fine specimens of exoleta and I 

 three of vetusta : one of the former on the high moorland ground. Habrostola I 

 urticce was common at raspberry bushes in June, I think, of 1879, but much scarcer 

 last season. Plusia pulchrina and iota are both moderately common, the former 

 mostly at honeysuckle, and iota at bloom of rhododendron. Of the species which 

 seem scarce, and of which I have taken of each only a single specimen, I may 

 mention the following : Acronycta ligustri, Noctua conjlua, Orthosia suspecta, 

 Tethea subtusa, and Epunda viminalis. — A. Elliot, Samieston, Jedburgh, N.B, : 

 February, 1881. 



Early appearance of Pieris rapce. — This afternoon, at Merton, Surrey, I was 

 surprised to see one of the small white butterflies, P. rapes, flying about in the bright 

 sunshine, apparently enjoying it. I have never before met with this species so early 

 in the season, and it struck me as so unusual that I stayed for some minutes watching 

 it. —John W. Downing, 59, Lupus Street, S.W. : March lbth, 1881. 



Ichneumonidce new to Britain. — A few Ichneumons taken here by me were 

 forwarded to Mr. Fitch, by Mr. E. A. Butler, who has kindly examined them and 

 informs me that there are among them two species new to Britain : Agrothereutes 

 batavus, Toll., Tijds. v. Ent., xvi, p. 209, pi. ix, fig. 1, $ , among the Cryptides, and 

 Lissonota leucozona, Grav., Ichn. Eur., iii, p. 100, $ ,one of the Pimplides. These 

 were taken in the same sand-pit in which I found Bothynotiis pilosus and about the 

 same time, in September. I also found Aptesis stenoptera, Marshall, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 v, p. 156. — E. N. Bloomfield, G-uestling Eectory: March Uh, 1881. 



P>r. Adler's second memoir on dimorphism in the Cynipidce ichich produce Oak- 

 Galls. — In Yol. xiv, p. 44, of this Magazine, attention was briefly directed to a: 

 remarkable assertion by Dr. Adler, of Schleswig, to the effect that certain of ouri 

 oak-galls, and their producers, are only dimorphic conditions, the galls in one brood 

 being totally different in form from those of the other, and the flies so different as 

 to have been placed in distinct genera : Dr. Adler's statement and the proofs, were 

 fully detailed in the " Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift," 1877, pp. 209 — 248. 

 At that time his statements were received with a considerable amount of incredulity: 

 but subsequently some, at least, of his observations were proved to have been correct, 

 by Messrs. J. E. Fletcher, Lichtcnstein, and Cameron (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xiv, p. 



