NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 215' 



and severity-odd specimens of the species that emerged. '-^Itl may he[ 

 added that the bulk of these specimens were taken to a suitable sjaot in 

 the Forest and there liberated. — Richard South. ,: ^ 



Burnet Pup^e attacked by Birds. — On June 15th, 1918, in a 

 rough spinney in the north-west corner of Bedfordshire, I saw many 

 hundreds of pupae of Z.filipendulce and Z. lonicerce. A large number; 

 were attached to a wire net fence, and most of these had been 

 devoured by birds. In each case a hole had l^een pecked in the^ 

 middle of the cocoon and the pupa extracted. None of those attached 

 to grasses or to dead stalks of the St. John's wort had been attacked. 

 In many instances there were four or five pupge on a stalk of the 

 latter. The reason the birds attacked those on the wire fence, no 

 doubt, was that they could get a secure foothold while pecking out 

 the cocoon, but they could not hold on to the stalks and grasses.: 

 I have never seen this before. — W. Gifford Nash, F.R.C.S. ; Clavering 

 House, De Parys Avenue, Bedford. 



SCARDIA BOLETI AND CoLEOPTERA ON A FALLEN BeECH TrEE. — 



During June an old beech log in the New Forest was frequently 

 examined for iS. boleti, and about twenty were selected from the many 

 specimens noted thereon. Eight specimens of Tinea parasitella were 

 also obtained. On each visit to the log attention was given to any 

 species of Coleoptera that might be about. Up to about the middle 

 of the month one or more LejJtura scutellata occurred every morning, 

 and on one occasion three females and two males were secured; 

 Other beetles found on the log at various times up to the 20th were 

 Leptura sexguttata (2), Melandrya caraboides (1), Tomoxia biguttatU: 

 (3), Pyrochroa coccinea {\),Elaterpomon(B{^),Bhagiu'in bifasciaULmi^\i , 

 —Richard South. ...icri' a /i' . 



CaLOSOMA inquisitor and SiLPHA QUADRIPUNCTATA AiBUNDiNT 



in New Forest. — Judging by the frequency that one or the othef'v 

 of these beetles fell into the umbrella when beating the lower oak- 

 branches, both species must have been in large numbers in parts of 

 the. Forest this year. Remains of their lepidopterous victimst were 

 also much in evidence.— Richard South. 



Lema puncticollis in the New Forest. — Among some 

 Coleoptera taken at Brockenhurst in June this year was a specimen 

 which Dr. Sharp has identified as a colour variety of Lema puncti;. 

 collis, Curtis. He states that it is a form he had not seen before,; 

 and that the species was new to the district. As the form was not 

 represented in the series of the species in the collection at South. 

 Kensington, the specimen has been given to the Museum.— Richard' 

 South. ' ; ,,;: 



Note on the Habits of the Bee Melitta (Cilissa) leporina. 

 — In the late evening of July 7th there was brought to me awithered 

 flower-head of " cockspur grass " in which were clustered thirteen 

 males of Melitta leporina asleep. The boy who brought it informeid 

 me that three specimens had dropped off while he was carrying his 

 find to my house. Mr. R. C. L. Perkins (' Ent. Mo. Mag.,' February, 

 1889, p. 207) mentions similar occurrences in the case of Nomada, 

 ochrostoma, but, so far as I can ascertain, this behavipur of M. leporina, 



