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fact that its career ended with a dash into a spider's web upon 

 a rose bush. 



9. A Parasitic (?) Ephydrid Fly. — My attention was attracted 

 by a small insect on a dead willow trunk, which was walking 

 about fairly fast and poking its nose into borings of the beetle 

 Ptilinus pectijiicornis (probably now tenanted by the Aculeate, 

 Trypoxylon attenuatiim) . Once after such investigation she 

 reversed, poked her tail into the mouth of the horizontal bole, 

 and jerked it two or three times as though ovipositing. She 

 then passed on to other holes, occasionally stopping to sharply 

 jerk up her closed wings together ; a movement very different 

 to the vibration of the Ortalid®. That the interest in these 

 holes was quite definite is evidenced by the direct manner in 

 which she walked from one to another, as well as by the fact 

 that I twice frightened her away, and she at once returned and 

 settled with no hesitancy, before I secured her. All on a 

 Bummer-hke day, April 23rd. Mr. Collin says the species is 

 Discocerlna plumosa, Fin., and that it is uncommon ; it had 

 every appearance of a Eurytomid Chalcid in its manner of 

 investigation. 



10. Food-plants of Weevils. — A fact of interest to rose-growers 

 was noted on June 8th. I discovered Anthonomus riihi with its 

 proboscis deeply embedded in an uuexpanded bud of a small 

 "Hiawatha" rambler rose, upon which it was certainly feeding, 

 and so destroying the flower. This beetle more generally 

 frequents flowers than is usually supposed ; here I took it 

 sucking Matricaria inodora in the middle of last August. Mr. 

 Jennings has recently (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1915, p. 168) discussed 

 the food of Liophloeus nubilus, without referring to my direct 

 evidence brought forward in the fourth of these Notes, where 

 the " Ground Elder" is Mgopodium pudagraria; I suspect that 

 his specimens from urabellifers were simply sucking the stylopods. 



The Hilara of the third note is //. monedula, a new species, 

 which will be described in Collin's forthcoming volume upon the 

 British Empidae. 



(To be continued.) 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FKOM FORMOSA. 



By a. E. Wileman, F.E.S. 



Hyptetra bipartita, sp. n. 

 $ . Fore wings pale brown rufous tinged on basal two-thirds and 

 greyish brown on terminal third ; a black line or dot on costa near 

 base ; antemedial line indicated by three black spots, one on the 

 costa and small linear below it, one below median nervure ; post- 

 medial line black, double, thickened on costa, sinuous ; stigmata in- 

 distinct ; the greyish terminal area inwardly limited by the post- 



