118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The imago is particularly downy, and the tarsi are particu- 

 larly pale. Tenthiedo Crataegi is a very abundant insect : 

 on a mild evening, in July and August, a hundred of its 

 mealy, glaucous larvae may be picked off any hawthorn 

 hedge in the course of half an hour. It is a great pet with 

 the name-changers, scarcely any two entomologists using the 

 same name : — Cimbex Lucorura, Trichiosoma Lucorura, 

 Cimbex sylvatica, Trichiosoma sylvaticum. Cimbex Betuleti 

 is the name adopted by Klug, Hartig, and Vollenhoven ; but 

 it has never been found feeding on birch, as this name would 

 seem to imply. — Edward Newman.^ 



W. Macmillan. — Name of a Wasp. — Will you kindly 

 inform me with what species of wasp the facial and abdominal 

 markings, shown in the enclosed sketch, agree ? The wasp, 

 from which the sketch was made, I caught in a window on 

 the 2nd of October last. A friend of mine has compared it 

 with two queens of V. germanica, and thinks it is probably a 

 queen of the small common wasp, V. vulgaris ; but is by no 

 means certain. 



fl have no doubt of its being the common wasp, Vespa 

 vulgaris, but the markings on the abdomen are subject to 

 some variation ; those on the face are more constant, and 

 consequently more reliable. — Edward Newman.^ 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of London. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 

 chair. 



February 1, 1875. 



Variety of Noctua glareosa; and Amara continua at 

 Caterham and Mickleham. — Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a dark 

 variety of Noctua glareosa, Gn. ; and Mr. Champion exhi- 

 bited specimens of Amara continua, TAows., taken at Caterham 

 and Mickleham. 



Polistes gallicus utilizing Play-hills in the construction of 

 its Cells. — The President exhibited a nest of Polistes gallicus, 

 taken on the Esplanade at Corfu, of which the cells were 

 partly constructed with coloured paper taken from some 

 play-bills posted in the vicinity, as alluded to in his Anni- 

 versary Address, delivered at the last meeting. 



