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specimens— eight or ten— cliiefl.y in the North of London, as at 

 Highgate and Hampstead. — J. A. P.] 



Note on leaf-mining Dipteron.— The subject of the life- 

 history of the leaf-mining Diptera, so ably illustrated by Mr. 

 Fitch in his instructive and learned paper on the " Mangold-fly," 

 and published in the last two numbers of the ' Entomologist,' is 

 so interesting, that any new facts bearing on the subject are worthy 

 of record. In the appendix, which I had the pleasure of adding 

 to Mr. Fitch's article, I placed the Chortophila atriplicis of 

 Goureau among the synonyms of C. hetce, thus expressing the 

 opinion that they were probably the same species, following the 

 example of Haliday. This opinion is strongly supported by the 

 fact that in November last I received a specimen of C. hetce from 

 the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield, of Guestling Eectory, near Hastings, 

 which he had bred from " larvse feeding in bladdery mines on 

 Atriplex sj). near the sea." Mr. Bloomfield has kindly promised 

 to follow up this interesting occurrence by trying to find out next 

 summer the name of the species of Atriplex, and also, I hope, to 

 collect some more larvae, and try to breed some more imagines. 

 He also added, in a subsequent letter, " I have little doubt the sea 

 beet was not far of " (from the Atriplex), " as I know it grows on 

 the cliffs at no great distance from the place where I found these 

 larvse." I hope he may find some larvse feeding upon the beet, as 

 well as upon the Atriplex, and prove whether they both produce 

 the same fly. In December last Mr. C. W. Dale sent me a 

 specimen of Rondani's C. chenopodii, which he had bred from a 

 larva mining the leaves of a dock. This, in addition to other 

 facts of the same nature, leads me to believe that most of the leaf- 

 mining flies are not strictly confined to one species of plant. — 

 R. H. Meade; Bradford, Yorks., Feb. 18, 1881. 



Vespa norvegica at Stamford Bridge. — On August 11th 

 last, while collecting Coleoptera on umbelliferous plants at Stam- 

 ford Bridge, near York, I captured a specimen of Vespa norvegica ; 

 as this seems one of the rarest of the British wasps, it is perhaps 

 worth recording.— [Rev.] W. W. Fowler; Lincoln, Feb. 8, 1881. 

 Scientific Nomenclature. — To judge from the name pro- 

 posed for the new Manx Eiipithecia, we may expect ere long to 

 be favoured with "Billana," "Pollyaria," and similar examples of 

 modern English science and good taste. Surely some step might 

 be taken to stifle these monstrosities at their birth, and to prevent 



