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of the trip. The alder swamps in Matley Bog yielded Hydrelia uncula, 

 Eupisteria heparata, Hypsipetes impluviata, and one Erastria fasciana ; 

 while Aspilates strirjillaria occurred not uncommonly on the heaths, 

 and Drepana falcataria was found among the birch. Mr. Jennings 

 met with the only good weevil taken during the trip, a specimen of 

 Erirrhinus bimacidatus, and also the best species of Diptera taken, viz. 

 a male of Spilomyia speciosia, boxed from the side of the brook running 

 through Matley Bog. This gentleman also obtained a female of 

 Merodon equestris (Syrphidse), which Mr. Nicholson had taken at 

 flowers in the Lynwood garden. This is an introduced species, having 

 been brought to England in bulbs, in which the larvae feed. It is 

 now well established in this country. The party returned home early, 

 and after tea returned by the 7 o'clock train to town. Mr. Jennings 

 reports the following species, other than Lepidoptera, taken during the 

 trip in addition to those already mentioned — -Geodephaga (ground 

 beetles), Calosouia inquisitor (two beaten from oaks, and one each from 

 hazel, beech, and hawthorn), Ahax striola (one under log on a heath), 

 Harpcdus rubripes (one, ditto), Dromius 4.-macuiatus (one), and one 

 species each of Pterostichus, Notiophilus, Harpalus, Calathus, not yet 

 named ; Brachelytra (rove beetles), Creophiius via.villosus (one under a 

 dead rabbit on Whitemoor) ; Necrophaga (burying beetles), Silplia 

 4i-pimctata (beaten commonly from oaks), S. ruyosa (one), S. sinuata 

 (several obtained from the before -mentioned dead rabbit), Sapriims 

 (two unnamed species from the same source) ; Lamellicornia, Geotrupes 

 vernalis (one on Whitemoor), Trox sabulosus (one under an old rag at a 

 spot where there had evidently been a gipsy encampment), Meiolontha 

 valyaris (several beaten from oaks), Phyllopertha horticola (four in 

 various situations), Leucanus cervus (several) ; Elateridae (click beetles), 

 Campylus linearis (one out of hawthorn), Colymbetes holosericeus (com- 

 mon on oaks) ; Malacodermata, Dolichosoma nobile (one from aspen) ; 

 Longicornia, Anoplodera sex-guttata (one on a wall), Rhar/ium bifasciatitia 

 (three), R. inquisitor (one at sugar in Jones's Enclosure), Clytus arietis 

 (two on dead wood), Toxotus meridianus (one netted flying near the 

 Lymington river at Rhinefield), Strangalia nigra (three from Matley 

 Bog) ; Phytophaga, Ciythra quadripunctata (one taken by Mr. Bacot at 

 Denny), Cryptocephalus Uneola (one from heather on Whitemoor), 

 Adimonia caprecB (several), Phytodecta viniinalis (severaX) ; Heteromera, 

 Lagria hirta (one out of an oak in Hurst Wood) ; Ehyncophora 

 (weevils), Attelabus curculionoides (two out of oaks), lihynchites pubescens 

 (several out of oaks), Otiorrhynchus jncipes (several from hawthorn), 

 Stropliosomus coryli (common on anything but hazel), Hylobius abietis 

 (three), Erirrhinus tortrix (two from aspen), E.macidatus (several from 

 aspen), Balaninus glandium (one beaten from oak) ; Diptera, Bombylius 

 major (one in a most dilapidated condition, having half of the wings 

 gone, and very ragged pubescence) ; Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Acantho- 

 sotna (three specimens of a species beaten from hawthorn) ; a yellow 

 species was common on oaks, and a fine green Capsid was beaten from 

 hawthorn at Ehinefield ; Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Tenthredo 

 maculata (one specimen taken by Mr. Harvey near Brockenhurst). — 

 Lawrence J. Tkemayne, Hun. Sec. 



