THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 89 



long experience in this branch of insect-collecting, which he 

 not merely originated, but brought to perfection. — Edward 

 Newman P[ 



Eninielesia unifasciata at West Wickham. — I took a 

 single specimen of Emmelesia unifasciata at light, at West 

 Wickham, on the 14th August last (1874). This is, I believe, 

 a new locality for this scarce species, though it has been 

 before recorded from Forest Hill, and lately by Mr. Marshall 

 (Entom. vii. 209) from Cheltenham.— fF. A. Forbes; 35, 

 S. Castle Street, Edinburgh. 



Rare Lepidoptera near Limerick. — Amongst my captures 

 last season have been Lobophora hexapterata, Eurymene 

 dolobraria, Nonagria Typhae, Sarrothripa Revayana, P. po- 

 tentillana, and Gelechia cinerella; and also the insects 

 which you determined to be Camptogamma fluviata 

 and Oporabia filigrammaria. Mrs. Battersby may be inte- 

 rested to know that 1 took six specimens of Sarrothripa 

 Revayana, and could have taken more, but was not aware of 

 its rarity as an Irish insect. — William Talbot; Tarbert, 

 Limerick, March 10, 1875. 



Name of Insect. — In a letter received from my friend 

 Mr. Francis Smith, R.N., of H.M.S. "Repulse," he tells 

 me that at Payta, in Peru, he captured a very queer-looking, 

 wingless bee, and asks me if I can tell him what it is. As I 

 am quite unable to do so I shall be very glad if any entomo- 

 logist will kindly reply in the pages of this periodical. Here 

 is Mr. Smith's description of it : — " A most curious insect, 

 resembling a bee in all respects, but entirely devoid of wings 

 or any traces of them. It is extremely rapid in its movements 

 on the ground, running, when chased, under loose stones, &c. 

 At first I had the idea I had captured some sort of spider. It 

 has a long sting. Colour bright metallic-red, and in size 

 about as large as a small bluebottle." The italics are mine, 

 for does not the "long sling" seem to suggest this creature 

 may belong to the Ichneumonidae, and the so-called sling be 

 its ovipositor? — Gervase F. Matheiv ; H.M.S. ^^ Britannia,'^ 

 Dartmouth, March 17, 1875. 



[Will Mr. F. Smith, of the British Museum, kindly reply ? 

 No one else is so capable. — Edward Newman.] 



The Bignell Beating-tray. — As my entomological friends 

 have designated this little apparatus by the above name, and 



