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and Sineriiithus popull. Larvae of Bomhxjx neustria were abundant on 

 brambles ; also single larvae of B. querciis and Odonestis Rotatoria. — H. 0. 

 Wells; Hurstfield, The Avenue, Gipsy Hill, London, S.E., Julv 0th. 



Entomology in Alderney. — I have recently returned from a three 

 months' sojourn in Alderney (April-June). The weather was windy and 

 very rainy part of the time. Season not an early one this year. I should 

 probably have been more successful had 1 been able to remain a little later 

 on in the island, especially as regards Sphingidse [convolvuU, porcellus, 

 atropos, which are all, I am given to understand, common there). ]\[elitcea 

 cinxia proved ray best catch among the butterflies. I discovered its 

 habitat in tolerable abundance, but it is very local. In Hymenoptera and 

 Diptera I was fairly successful ; Neuroptera extremely scarce. I obtained 

 one Phryganea and one Chrysopa, and saw one dragonfly only during the 

 whole of the time. It flew by me over the downs and down a valley in the 

 south-west of the island. I am almost sure it was L. quadrimaculata. I 

 append a list of the Alderney insects that I know of for certain. Other 

 kinds of the Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera are yet to be named at 

 the British Museum. Anyone wanting Alderney insects, for the sake of 

 the locality, is welcome to my duplicates in return for naming said species, 

 with the view of getting as complete a list of the island fauna as possible. 

 The same remark applies to the Orkney insects that I obtained last year. 

 I got one hymenopterous insect new to my collection, and only saw that 

 one specimen, and never met with it elsewhere ; it was resting on the 

 angelica on a hill-side in Alderney. Body particularly long and slender ; 

 black, with many yellow stripes. 



Rhopalocera. — P. brassiccB (fairly common), P. rapcB (fairly common), 

 Polijommatiis alexis (very common), Satyrus ianira (very abundant), S. 

 megmra (not plentiful), Vanessa cardul [oue noticed), V. atalanta (five or six 

 seen), V. urticcB (two seen). The three last-named species are common in 

 the island, I believe, and more were seen by others. M. cinxia (common 

 in places, but very local and its range restricted), C. edusa, 0. phlccas (both 

 seen in case of stuffed birds belonging to a resident, and both common 

 in island). 



Heterocera. — Sphinx convolvuU, D. porcellus, A, atropos, M. stella- 

 tarum, Z.filipendulcB, E.jacobcea, Arctia caia, A. menthastrl, A.lubrici- 

 peda, Pteroplwrus pentadactylus, Campto gramma bilineata, Mamestra bras- 

 siccB, Plusia gamma. 



Hymenoptera. — Bombus terrestris (common), B. lapidarius (common), 

 Chrysis ignita (two caught, two or three more seen), Odynerus quadratus 

 (one specimen), Andrena nigro<Enea ? , A. cineraria, Osmia rtifa ? (common 

 on old walls), Allantus arcuatus (a few seen). The cylinders of the leaf- 

 cutting bee, known as the " barrel bee " in Alderney, and believed to belong 

 to the Andrenidae, are common in the island a little later in the season, but 

 not so abundant as formerly there before the fortifications of Mount Albert 

 were erected on what is known as the Mount. 



Coleoptera. — Calathus melanocephalus, Melo'e, Melolontha vulgaris, 

 Timarcha coriaria. 



Neuroptera, — Phryganea (one), Chrysopa (one). 



Diptera. — Chlorosiaformosa, Scatophaga stercoraria, Sarcophaga hcemor- 

 rhoidalis, Tipula gigantea, Bibio marci, Eristalis arbustorum, SccBca py- 

 rastri, Calliphora vomitoria. — (Rev.) F. A. Walker; Cricklewood, N.VV., 

 July 20th, 1897. 



