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of a wall. July 5tli, collected Hymenoptera at Bedford Park, 

 Chiswick. Sent these and others from the same locality to 

 Mr. E. Saunders, to whom I am indebted for the names. They 

 are as follows : — Trypoxylon figidus, Passalcscus insignis, Crahro 

 podagricus, C. cephalotes, Odynerus parietinus, Andrcena albicans, 

 Megachde circumcincta, Osmia vufa, Bomhus pratorum, B. lapi- 

 darius, B. terrestris, Chrysis ignita, C. cyanea. On another 

 occasion I took Belyta dorsalis. The Chrysides are very beautiful 

 insects ; C. ignita is very common on sunny walls, but I only 

 saw one C. cyanea. I should never have caught this one had it 

 not persistently come back to the same place after being alarmed. 

 I saw it on a window-sill, and lifted my net to catch it, but before 

 I could strike it was gone — in an instant — I knew not where. I 

 was just mourning its loss when there it was back again in 

 exactly the same spot, and so three or four times, until it was 

 captured. July 13th, Lomaspilis marginata came to light at 

 Cliislehurst. July llith, took a nearly adult larva of Vanessa 

 cardui on Carduus arvensis at Bedford Park. July 20th, an indivi- 

 dual of Zeuzera pyrina {cBscidi), female, at Cliislehurst. July 25th, 

 Ourapteryx samhucata and other species very abundant at gas- 

 lamps at Roehampton, near Barnes. August 3rd, Sesia myopcB- 

 formis on leaf of willow tree at Bedford Park. This is the third 

 Bedford Park example I have seen. August 6th, my brother 

 brought me a dead example of Acherontia atropos, which he had 

 picked up at Chislehurst. — T. D. A. Cockekell ; 61, Woodstock 

 Eoad, Bedford Park, Aug. G. 



An Apterous Sawfly.— Before passing from hymenopterous 

 insects I may mention that, though Sawflies are not numerous in 

 the Zarafslian Valley (Turkistan), yet there is one form 

 particularly remarkable, for, with a normal male, related to the 

 group SelandriidcE, is a female without traces of wings. Affected 

 by this absence of wings, the thorax undergoes important 

 changes, and appears greatly swollen, and all the females 

 generally have the appearance of little bags. Its relation to this 

 family is said to be astounding, since it is the only example of 

 the wingless form in the whole family of Sawflies. All the other 

 specialities of structure, however, as well as the wings of the 

 male, confirm it. — (Rev.) Dr. Henry Lansdell, in ' Nature.' 



Telenomus phal^narum, Nees (= belenus, Walk). — This 

 small egg-parasite has been bred in some numbers from eggs of 



