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as we have been long on the road, — it is past one, — to sit down 

 and collect our forces, pin up and arrange captures, and finally 

 see what is in the basket. Knowing that if the veteran once 

 gets his eye on Menestheus he will be off, I select a nook where 

 I never recollect to have seen him, and so manage to have a 

 quiet quarter of an hour to refresh ; undisturbed by any frantic 

 dashes on the part of the veteran, who, as it is, can barely be 

 restrained from plunging after the numerous P. Merope indi- 

 viduals that give us a call on their rambles. Whilst sitting there 

 lunching I call my friend's attention to several flies, as he thinks 

 them, but which I know to be " clear-wings," settled on the 

 herbage about, and at times found abundantly in the glade. We 

 box off several for closer inspection ; I do not know their names, 

 but they are not rarities. 



(To be continued.) 



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Translated from the Dutch of the late Dk. S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven. 



By J. W. May. 



(Continued from p. 35.) 



Selandria candidata, Fall. (= Repanda, Kl.) 

 Imago: Fallen, 'Acta Holm,' 1807, 105, 45. Hartig, ' Blatt-und 



Holzwespen,' p. 279, No. 45. Thomson, 'Hymen, Scand., 



i., p. 230, No. 3. 

 The larva appears to be undescribed. 

 Selandria nigra, nitida, prothoracis limbo, squamulis et margini- 



bus segmentorum abdominalium albis ; maculis transversis 



in abdominis dorso cinereis, ore, orbitis, stigmate et pedum 



maxima parte subtestaceis. Long. 6 mm. 

 Several years ago Professor Westwood sent me from Oxford 

 a yellow Tenthredo larva contained in a quill, describing it in a 

 letter as the rascal which every year bored into his rose trees, 

 adding that he had not hitherto been able to rear the insect; 

 he asked me, of course, whether I was acquainted with the insect, 

 to which query I was obliged to reply in the negative, but I 

 undertook to investigate the matter, if possible; unfortunately, 

 the larva I received was in such a sorry condition that there was 



no prospect of rearing it. 



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