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secreted themselves among the roots of their food-plant. I 

 am indebted to Mr. Hudson, of Bawtry, for the opportunity 

 of making this description. — Edward Newman. 



Entomological Notes, Queries, Captures and Duplicates. 



18. — Larva and Pupa of Ripiphorus paradoxus. — Both 

 Coleopterists and Hymenopterists will doubtless feel inte- 

 rested in the announcement that the discovery of the larva 

 and pupa of the above parasite has at length been made. On 

 Saturday morning last I was fortunate, on opening a cell 

 contained in a nest of Vespa vulgaris, in discovering a larva 

 of Ripiphorus in the act of consuming tlie spun-up larva of 

 the wasp to whose body it was firmly adhering. It had not 

 then made much progress in the work of destruction, but in 

 the course of the following forty-eight hours it entirely con- 

 sumed its victim, with the exception of the skin and man- 

 dibles. From other cells in the same nest I obtained pupae 

 of the parasite as well as specimens of the perfect insect. — 

 S. Stone ; Brighthampton , Witney, August 23, 1864. 



19. — Multitudes of Syrphus Pgrastri iu the Isle of Wight: 

 — Could you, through the medium of the ' Entomologist,' 

 tell me the name of the insect which I enclose? They have 

 swarmed about here for the last week, and no one seems 

 to know anything about it. In a walk along the coast 

 yesterday I saw hundreds lying on the beach, all dead, 

 with one exception. This has further strengthened my idea 

 that they have migrated here. It would be interesting to 

 know if any of your correspondents in other parts of Eng- 

 land have seen them. I found those which I have men- 

 tioned lying between Blackgang and Alherfield. — William 

 Gibson ; Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, August 21, 1864. 



20. — Multitudes of Syrphus Pyrastri in the Isle of Wight. 

 — Although no Entomologist, I cannot fail to be struck by 

 the myriads of peculiar flies which have been, during tlie 

 whole of this week, and still are, swarming about here, and, 

 so far as I can learn, pretty generally along the neighboui'ing 

 part of the southern coast. They are apparently of two spe- 

 cies. Specimens of them both I beg to enclose you. I find 

 them everywhere ; in the greatest quantities, however, on the 



