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which is always wanting iu this species. M. Milliere has 

 given beautiful figures of osseala and intoijectaria, with the 

 larva and pupa of each, in the last Part of his ' Iconographie 

 et Description de Chenilles et Lepidopteres inedits." — Henry 

 Douhledaij ; Epping, March 13, 1867. 



Sty lops emerijhig Jire months after the Death of the Bee. — 

 On the 18th of July, 1866, I captured, at Ipswich, a male of 

 Andrena convexinscula, the abdomen of which was much 

 distorted with a Stylops on the left side, about the junction 

 of the third and fourth segments. On returning home 1 

 placed it in my collection, and on the 4th December last put 

 it in a pocket-box by itself, in order to name it, as I was not 

 then certain of the species. On opening the box on the 

 13th December I was astonished to find a living male Sty- 

 lops, wiiich had evidently just emerged from the bee. The 

 pocket-box had never been used before. — G. A. James 

 Rolliney, Queen''s Road, South Norwood, February 2, 1867, 

 in Ent. Mo. May. iii. 235. 



New Species of Scoparia. — In the ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine' for March, Dr. Knaggs describes a Scoparia sup- 

 posed to be new, under the name of S. nlmella, of which the 

 most striking characters are " the long narrow fore wings ; 

 with slightly acute apices; the well-defined broad arched 

 first line, in which two of the stigmata are nearly absorbed ; 

 the very characteristic renal stigma, 8-shaped and filled in 

 with ochreous ; the apical margin furnished with dots and 

 dashes ; the shape of the hind wings, which are compara- 

 tively long, and slightly eniarginate just below their apices." 

 Three specimens were taken by Air. Dale " on the 13ih of 

 July, 1844, on a wych-elm trunk in a thick wood at East 

 Meon, adjoining Bordean Hanger, Captain Chawner's estate," 

 and two of these are still in Mr. Dale's collection. The fol- 

 lowing particulars would be additionally interesting :— Have 

 the specimens been seen and examined by Mr. Doubleday ? 

 Have they been compared with the figures of the genus in 

 Herrich-SchffiflTer ? 



Varieties. — 1 shall be extremely obliged for drawings, or, 

 better still, for photographs, of any remarkable varieties of 

 Lepidoptera : they will be published in the " Illustrated 

 Natural History of British Moths," which will appear in 

 monthly numbers. — Edward Newman. 



