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they flew very little before sunset, but about dusk Ihey began 

 to fly straight down the different paths by dozens, and I did 

 not see any settled after this. 1 should have taken more, but 

 1 ran short of pins. I went again on June 6th, and took 

 fifteen more, — all I saw then ; and on June 9th I again took 

 nine, some of which were very much faded, and 1 have not 

 seen any since. — David Price ; West Street, Horsham. 



Captures in Satherlandshire. — Thinking it may interest 

 some of the readers of the 'Entomologist,' I beg to give you 

 the names of the Lepidoptera that I took in Sutherland 

 last month: — Ccenonympha Davus, plentiful on the bogs; 

 Melanippe tristata, very plentiful on the side of the "burns;" 

 and one specimen of Plusia Chrysitis. The Tristata were not 

 black, but a dark dusky brown. Being on a fishing excursion 

 I unfortunately only got a few specimens of these species. — 

 C. L. Adams; IVal/ord Manor, Shrewsbury^ Aug. 15, 1874. 



Mac/tcerium maritimu}?i{Fixm. DoYichopidiB). — Machacrium 

 maritimum was first named and described as a new genus and 

 species by A. H. Haliday, in 1831 ; and its economy has 

 been lately observed by Mr. Joshua Brown, of Bartonbury. 

 The cocoons were found in the beginning of June, on the 

 sands at a bay about two miles beyond the town of Weston- 

 super-Mare : Mr. Brown kept them moist with a litlle salt 

 water, and the flies came out during a week about the middle 

 of June. The pupa is pale, about three and a half lines in 

 length, decreasing in breadth from the head to the tip of the 

 abdomen ; the head and tlje thorax are large, and closely 

 connected ; there are eight abdominal segments, and the legs 

 and rudimentary wings are distinct; the antennaj are two- 

 thirds as long as the body, and much longer than those of 

 the developed fly; the scajie is thick; the flagellum is 

 setaceous and black at the base. The cocoon is pale gray, 

 elongate-oval, about six lines in length, smooth without and 

 within, and appears to be composed of fine mud. — Francis 

 Walker. 



Microgaster in Brazil. — In Hymenoptera and Diplera 

 there are often examples of nearly allied species inhabiting 

 wide-apart districts of the earth. Microgaster, whose larvae 

 form little yellow cocoons attached to the skins of caterpillars, 

 are well known in Europe, and I am indebted to Mr. F. 

 Smith, of the British Museum, for a mass of white cocoons 



