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Austen (E. E.). Two Additions to the List o! British Tachinidae 



(Diptera).— £w/. Mthly. Mag., London, no. 699, August 1922, 

 pp. 182-183. 



The Tachinid, Billaea irrorata, Mg., is recorded from Kent and 

 Surrey. Its distribution appears to be somewhat local, and it does 

 not necessarily occur wherever its host, Saperda populnea, L., is found. 

 Pupation takes place in the tunnel in the branch made by the host. 



Laing (F.). Chaetocnema sp. injuring Wheat. — Ent. Mthly. Mag., 

 London, no. 699, August 1922, pp. 191. 



A species of Chaetocnema was found to be damaging wheat in Devon 

 in June 1922. This is apparently the first record of a Halticid of this 

 genus causing such injury in Britain, though C. aridula, GylL, is stated 

 to attack oats in France, and both this species and C. hortensis, Geoffr., 

 have been recorded from Russia on cereals. 



Laing (F.). An Eastern Species of Galleridae imported into Britain. — 



Ent. Mthly. Mag., London, no. 699, August 1922, p. 191. 



Aphomia gularis, ZelL, originally described from Japan, has been 

 recorded from China, Vladivostok, India and the United States of 

 America, and has now been bred in England from a consignment of 

 infested walnuts from Marseilles. The cocoons were made in holes 

 bored by the larvae in the wood of the boxes containing the nuts. 



Laing (F.). Phylloxera salicis, Licht., a Species of Aphid new to 

 Britain. — Ent. Mthly. Mag., London, no. 699, August 1922, 

 p. 191. 



Phylloxera salicis, Licht., recorded from France, Italy and Germany, 

 has now been found under the bark of willow in Norfolk. 



Winn-Sampson (F.). Previously undescribed Scolytidae and 

 Platypodidae from the Indian Area. — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 London, ix, no. 55, July 1922, pp. 145-152. 



The species dealt with include : Crossotarsus errans, sp. n., from 

 Burma, in Careya arborea ; Platypus decens, sp. n., from Assam, in 

 sal {Shorea rohusta) ; Trogloditica trahax, gen. et sp. n., from Siam ; 

 Webbia trigintispinatus, sp. n., from Burma ; W. vigintisexspinatus , 

 sp. n., from Burma ; W. pabo, sp. n., from India, in sal ; Sphaerotrypes 

 quatuortuberculatus , sp. n., from Assam, in Drimy carpus racemosus ; 

 and Xyleborus perparvus, sp. n., from Bengal. 



Cunningham (G. H.). The Genus Cordyccps in New Zealand. 

 Myers (J. G.). Special Entomological Notes on the Hosts. — Trans. 



& Proc. N.Z. Inst., Wellington, liii, 1921, pp. 372-382, 4 plates, 



8 figs. 



The nature, distribution and biology of the insect-infesting fungi of 

 the genus Cordyceps are reviewed, and descriptions are given of the 

 following species : C. sinclairi. Berk., infesting Melanipsalta cingulata, 

 ¥., and M. cruentata, F. ; C. craigi, Lloyd, infesting Porina enysii, 

 Butl. ; C. consumpta, sp. n., infesting Porina sp. ; C. robertsi. Hook., 

 infesting P. enysii and P. dinodes, Meyr. ; and C. aemonae, Lloyd, from 

 the larva of Aemona hirta, F. 



