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P. excisa and P. liturata are probably common, however, in the 

 Norfolk Broads, where I took them in June, 1901 ; P. abdomi- 

 nalis has turned up sin,£;ly at Matley Bog, Brandon Staunch, 

 and in an elm -hedge at Southwold during June and July ; once 

 I swept P. imlverata towards the end of the former month at 

 Foxhall, in Suffolk; P. excisa has also occurred in the Reydon 

 and Henstead Marshes, near Southwold, on rushes during early 

 June ; and P. liturata at both Brandon and Wicken Fen in the 

 course of tlie same month. P. immersa is rare, and I possess 

 but a male from Barton Mills in Suffolk, and a female from 

 Bentley Woods ; a male of P. longicornis was swept at Henstead 

 with P. excisa on June 2nd, 1905 ; and P. tridens turned up in 

 the New Forest during May, 1895, and at Barnby Broad on 

 July 15th, 1906. 



Ten of our thirteen species of Emphytus are represented in 

 my collection, and I believe the majority to be not uncommon, 

 though E. calceatus is the only one I have met with in any 

 numbers ; this is frequent in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads at 

 Rockland, Oulton, and Barnby, and it also occurs at Brandon 

 and Claydon, in Suffolk, in August, very rarely in June, and 

 always in swamps. Mr. F. C. Adams has taken E. togatits at 

 Lyndhurst, and I beat a single specimen (the only one in twelve 

 years' constant collecting there) in the Bentley Woods in June, 

 1898. E. cinctus is a garden insect, occurring to me in my 

 garden here and in Chitty's at Huntingfield, in the Blean Woods, 

 and at Lyndhurst. My single E. melanarius was taken by 

 Beaumont at Oxshott in September, 1891. E. rvfocinctus also 

 occurs in gardens : I have it from Monks Wood, Hunts, June 

 4th, 1905 (Chitty), Buckfastleigh, June, 1905 (de la Garde), and 

 Monks Soham. A couple of E. hraccatus turned up on August 

 13th, 1901, at Brockenhurst and Denny Wood ; and I have 

 another pair from Beaumont's collection, taken by him in 

 September at Courten, in Ireland, and Taynuitt, in Scotland. 

 The curiously autumnal E. serotinus occurred to Tuck at Bungay 

 on September 24th, 1898 ; Sich has given me one found in 

 Richmond Park on October 29th, 1900 ; and I took it by sweep- 

 ing in a very swampy wood at Bramford, near Ipswich, on 

 October 13th, 1899. E. tener is probably not rare : Brandon 

 (Chitty), Southwold (Tuck), Lowestoft, Ipswich, and on birch in 

 Tuddenham Fen. E. carpini and E. grossidarice should not be 

 rare, but of the former I have found one flying in the sunshine 

 in my garden here on May 8th, one at Brockenhurst in early 

 July, and possess one taken at Chobham by Beaumont, only ; 

 and of the latter, two examples from woods at Bentley and 

 Assington, in Suffolk, are all I have obtained. Taxonus glabratus 

 is one of our commonest sawflies, and I often see it basking on 

 the leaves of Alisma in my moat here ; I have it from all over 

 Suffolk, from Cambs (Wicken Feu), Northants (Castor), and 



