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are not more plentiful this year, though I have not observed them so care- 

 fully, having got a set of all that I have seen in this neighbourhood. Smaller 

 genera, Andrena and Osnila, the former of the two being particuUirly 

 abundant, have been captured on the blossoms of the pear, plum, &o. 

 Among Ichneumonidse, Lamproiiota heUator ? continues, as previously, 

 common. Our local Rhopilocera are very few in number, and of the 

 commonest. 1 have been enabled to add Goneptenjx rhaiimi to the local 

 list. Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Orthoptera, here, are few and far 

 between. With regard to the Coleoptera, the soil no doubt has a great 

 deal to do with it. I rarely succeed in augmenting the catalogue of these 

 groups. This is the first season that 1 have seen iSialis lutarhis at all plentiful. 

 Many fall into the ponds, and are only extricated with their sinoUy-coloured 

 wings too limp and draggled to admit of effective setting out. Paiiorpa 

 fH'nnaitica occurs here, but very sparingly. If I had taken pains with the 

 Heterocera, I might have drawn up a more numerous list, but I rarely 

 meddle with the Micros, as I am sure to damage them, either in killing or 

 setting out. I have added four species of Hymenoptera to the ii^t within 

 the last week or two. — F. A. Walker ; Dun Mallard, Cricklewood, May 31. 



Hessian Fly. — The first Hessian fly specimens for 1889 came to hand 

 this morning, in the larval state, and apparently full gi'own. They were on 

 the small under shoots of wheat, which plant is just coming into ear. They 

 were from Revell's Hall, near Hertford, and are sent me by Mr. G. Palmer, 

 who first noticed the fly in England. — Eleanor A. Ukmkkod; Torringtou 

 House, St. Albans, June 14, 1889. 



Colorado Hymenoptkra. — Agama glabella, alluded to Entom. xxi. 

 301, is by no means an ichneumon, as there stated, but is a species of 

 Mutillidte, having a superficial resemblance to tlie ichneumons. Tiie species 

 is, perliaps, better classed as Pliotopsls glahrella ; while a second species from 

 Cottonwood Springs, Pueblo Co., has been identified by Mr. W. H. Ashmead 

 as P. avijda, Blake. Mr. Ashmead also identified Polistes variatiis, Cress., 

 from the same locality ; and the " Sirex " preyed upon by Thalessa (p. 30'^) 

 proves to be a Treniex, at first considered a new species (T. liospes), but 

 now referred by Prof. Riley to a new western race of T. columha, L. The 

 Mulillidaj are quite numerous in Colorado, species of SphicrophlliaUaa being 

 very noticeable, running over the ground in dry sunny spots ; while Pliotopsis 

 comes very numerously to light, so as to be quite a nuisance. — T. D. A. 

 CuCKiiiiELL; West Cliff, Colorado, May 2, 1889. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Jane 5th, 1889. — The Right 

 Honourable Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. W. M. Christy, of Watergate, Emsworth, was elected a Fellow; and 

 Mr. W. F. Blandford and Mr. C. Cave were admitted into the Society. 

 Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Acrolepia assectella, Zeller, included 

 in a lot of Tineidae purchased by him at the sale of the late Mr. A. F. 

 Sheppard's collection, and determined by Mr. Stainton. He also exhibited, 

 for comparison, a specimen of A. hetaUteUa. Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., 

 exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera made iu 1887 and 1888 in the 



