246 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
GARDEN NOTES. 
By Cruavpe Mortey, F.Z.8. 
(Continued from ‘ Entom.’ xlix, p. 34.) 
16. Dipteron in Burdock.—On June 15th, 1915, my attention 
was called to the leaves of this large plant by their peculiarly 
blotched appearance; this rapidly spread till, on July 8rd, the 
inside of one leaf, between its upper and lower surfaces, was so 
nearly consumed that little food remained for the maggots which 
I discovered subsisting upon it. The leaf was then brought 
indoors. By the 31st, fifteen Dipterous puparia had emerged 
and two larve were lying upon the bottom of their box; the 
latter would doubtless have ‘‘gone to earth” if left in the 
garden. On August 6th there were twenty-one of these puparia, 
and others were concealed in the curled leaf on November 10th. 
A small Alysiid Braconide, doubtless parasitic upon one of 
these larve, emerged on July 81st, 1915; but no flies came out 
till May 4th, 1916, when two emerged. On the 12th four more 
were out, and the last was already dead on the 20th. Mr. 
Collin names a pair Pegomyia gemipunctata, Stein, one of the 
Anthomyide. This is the same as P. conformis, Mde. (nec Fall.) ; 
and the latter tells us (‘E. M. M.’ xx, p. 10) that a single pair 
was reared during May, 1882, by Peter Inchbald ‘from the 
leaves of Arctiwm lappa, upon which the larve had fed,”’ pretty 
certainly in Yorkshire. The statement is repeated in Meade’s 
Descriptive List of British Anthomyide,’ 1897, p. 54, though 
his earlier record of two females from Windermere in 1874 is 
omitted. The species is, if not rare, much overlooked ; it is not 
included in my list of 1623 species of Suffolk Diptera, published 
by the Norfolk Nat. Soc. last year. 
17. Dragon-fly Food.—It is well known that dragon-flies prey 
entirely upon living animals ; yet observations of this kind seem 
so infrequent that one is led to the belief that the species of 
insects captured by them is very rarely ascertained. It is, then, 
of interest to note that the common Pyrrhosoma nymphula, which 
annually appears in the garden towards the end of April, was 
holding a Nemoura varicgata between its front legs and in the 
act of devouring it early last May. On being frightened it flew 
off, without relinquishing (as would an Empid) its prey. 
18. Parasites of Hypera rumicis.—W. B. Davis, Hisq., has 
recently sent me a collection of Hypera rumicis and its parasites, 
all bred from the cocoons of the former at Stroud in Gloucester- 
shire, which should not go unrecorded, because so very few 
parasites have been bred from this genus of weevils (cf. ‘ Tr. 
Ent. Soc.’ 1907, p. 44, et 1911, p. 478). The specimen of the 
host sent me emerged from its own ‘‘cocoon on Eupatorium” ; 
and two similar cocoons yielded distinct species of Ichneumonide. 
The one was apterous, a female Pezomachus kiesenwettert, which 
