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lamp behind it. The insects flew to the white surface, found 

 their wa}' into the room around the edges, and quietly settled 

 about the walls, where they were taken next morning. Mr. 

 Schwensen had often noted the attraction of an electric light, 

 near the Central Park, to Coleoptera. Carabidse, and especially 

 Harjxdini, came in considerable numbers. Dytiscidee and 

 Hydrophilidffi only when the wind was favourable, i.e., from the 

 Park lakes. The attraction of sugar to insects was then brought 

 up, and Mr. Claggis, who had collected during the past season in the 

 Isle of Jamaica, gave the result of his experience. Sugaring trees 

 was without result. The flowers exercised a superior attraction. 

 Flowers were so abundant that collecting at them was tedious, so 

 he tried sugaring flowers, with complete success. The flowers 

 artificially sweetened swarmed with insects, while the others were 

 deserted. Large Bombycidse came to this bait that never came 

 to sugar on trees." — W. W. Fowler; Lincoln, April 15, 1885. 



Myelois ceratoni^. — At Christmas time I found a larva 

 feeding in sweet almonds, which on March 18th produced a fine 

 specimen of the above species. — Geo. Coverdle ; 24, Fleming 

 Eoad, Lorrimore Square, E.C., April 24. 



Ichneumons Bred, other than from Lepidoptera. — 

 Hemiteles castaneus, Tasch., 13th April, 1882, from Triclilosoma 

 betuleti (sawfly cocoon). Orthopelma luteolator, Gr., 30th May, 

 1882, from Aulax hiei'acii gall, on Hieracium umhellatum (narrow- 

 leaved hawkweed) ; and lltli June, 1884, from Rhodites rosce, 

 rose Bedeguar. Hemiviachus instabilis, Forst., 23rd August, 

 1882, from Cionus scrophularice (pupa of the beetle). Limneria 

 curvicauda, Holmgr., 11th October, 1884, from Nematus gcdlicola, 

 sawfly galls, on Salix viminalis, gathered 25th August. Euryproctus 

 nigriceps, Gr., 11th June, 1881, from Tricliiosoma hetideti cocoon. 

 Mesoleius sangtdnicollis, Gr., 10th September, 1884, from galls on 

 Salix caprea. Pimpla hrevicornis, Gr., from pupa of a beetle. 

 Bracon Icsvigatus, Batz., 2Gth August, 1884, from Nematus 

 gallicola galls on Salix viminalis. — G. C. Bignell ; Stonehouse, 

 Plymouth, March 14, 1885. 



Errata. — Entom. vol. xviii. p. 89, line 1, for Sphinx cassinea 

 read Asteroscojms sphinx (cassinea) ; p. 95, line 7, for Gnopha 

 read Gnophos ; and p. 123, line 7 from bottom of page, for Procris 

 ino read Ino statices. 



