104 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



undescribed species occur in Italy ; one in Switzerland ; and 

 I have found S. alpicola on the Col de Voga, near Chamouni. 



BlEPHAEICIDvE. 



I have found species of this family near Martigny, in 

 Switzerland, and near Florence, in Italy, and remarked its 

 peculiar characters and manner of flight, and have placed it 

 between the Cecidorayidae and the Bibionidae. A. H. Hali- 

 day wrote to me about the localities in which he saw tliera, 

 and about the genera and species of the family, and remarked 

 that " the analogy in the development of the eyes (male) to a 

 Baetis is very striking, and the secondary net-work of delicate 

 veins of the wings is also remarkable. I have been able to 

 observe its carriage when alive, and find little to justify the 

 comparison with Chironomus that has been made. It seems 

 always to alight on the under surfaces, so hanging back 

 downwards, the wings divaricated and a little deflected from 

 the horizontal plane, the abdomen above their level, while 

 the head is stooped." 



Francis Walker. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Cfiethocampa pityocampa and another, as ohserved at 

 Nice. — With reference to the captures of larvae of C. Pityo- 

 campa, recorded in the 'Entomologist' for April (Entom. vii. 

 p. 81), it may interest you to know that I made a little 

 acquaintance with them during my stay at Nice this winter. 

 1 first observed their nests on the fir trees, about a fortnight 

 before Christmas, 1873, and upon examining one of these 

 webs I found some hundred or hundred and twenty larvae, 

 about half an inch long, very closely packed, — I suppose for 

 warmth : when I handled them I did not feel any eff'ects from 

 their urticating quality, which perhaps they did not then 

 possess ; and to save myself the trouble of feeding them up, 

 and besides having no convenience at hand for doing so, I 

 left them on the tree where I found them, and did not again 

 look at them until the middle of March, 1874, when I observed 

 that they began to descend the tree by ones and twos, and 

 toward the end of the month they commenced forming their 



