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The remarkable form of the third joint of the maxillary palpi in 

 both sexes at once distinguishes it from its congeners. The 

 above species was taken during my stay last summer at Cannich, 

 Strath Glass, luverness-shire, and occurred commonly all through 

 August. It was the common caddis-fly at all parts of the Strath 

 visited by me. I found it among the margins of lochs by 

 brushing, with the net, the overhanging heather, &c. I cannot 

 remember having seen it flying without its having been first 

 disturbed. M. angustata, De Geer, is the only other British 

 species of the genus.— J. J. King; 907, Sauchiehall St., Glasgow. 



Additions to the Casual Inhabitants of Galls (see Entom. 

 xii. 113, and xiii. 252). — From pierced galls of Cynips Kollari, 

 collected during winter, I bred in May last four specimens of 

 Coniopteryx tineiformis, Curt., and three of Cemiostoma Wailes- 

 ella, Staint. As many of the galls occurred at a waste border of 

 a field likely to be inhabited by Genista tinctoria, and some of 

 them on twigs onl}^ a few inches from the ground, they might 

 have been well over-topped by this plant. I am unable to assert 

 that the plant grew there, but suggest this to account for the 

 presence of the moths. For remarks on the pupation of the 

 Coniopteryx, see Westwood's 'Introduction,' ii. 49. From a gall 

 of Andricus terminalis I bred, April 4th, a specimen of Hemerohius 

 nervosus, Fab. To my disappointment these were the only inter- 

 lopers I bred. — J. E. Fletchee ; Worcester, November, 1880. 



SciATHERAS TRicHOTUs, Rcitz. — In my notice of the Chalcididce 

 parasitic on Calandra (Sitophilus) , Entom. xii. 47, Igave the curious 

 tufted- winged species as Cerocephala formiciformis, with the string 

 of synonymy almost as copied from Foerster (Hym. Stud. ii. 41). 

 I then felt nearly certain that my specimens, winged in both 

 sexes, could not be the same as the apterous species figured by 

 Haliday. Just lately Mr. E. A. Butler has sent me a plentiful 

 supply of the true Theocolax formiciformis in both sexes. These 

 were shaken from the old AiwUum-esden wood of an aquarium- 

 stand, and it is certainly j)arasitic on Anohiiim, as given by most 

 authors. This showed me that my corn-weevil parasites were a 

 distinct species, and they certainly are Katzeburg's Sciatheras 

 trichotus. While looking up the numerous synonyms, and failing 

 to find a copy of Westwood's early paper, published in the 

 ' London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine,' the Professor 



