Q 4 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tortrix "with a huge pin, \\ith a large ^v'ire head, stuck through 

 a label which, I am assured by the courteous curator at 

 Burlington House, is in Linnaeus' own handwriting. This 

 specimen, which one presumes is the original type and might 

 easily pass as a worn Sciaphila, is undoubtedly a male Ortho- 

 tcenia Iranderiana, and, what is more, agrees with the Linnaean 

 description of ivahlhovnana in his twelfth edition. The mistake 

 is easily accounted for, as Linnaeus' type of the species hran- 

 deriania is also in tbe collection, and is a female; tbis also 

 agrees with the description of this species. "What more likely 

 than be should describe the male so different from the female as 

 a distinct species. And here we have Mr. Hayward calmly 

 proclaiming, without a single comment, that Sciaphila icahl- 

 bomiana is new to the Victoria County History. It certainly is,. 

 and he is to be congratulated on his discovery, while we await 

 further particulars. 



Lower down in the same list we get the astonishing record 

 of another new British species, Blcetoteres glahratella, which is 

 dismissed by the line and a half: "Tbis last species is not 

 yet included in the British lists, but has been recently reported 

 elsewhere." What is it ? What is it like ? Who has taken it ? 

 "Where has it been taken? Where has it been recorded? All 

 these and other questions spring up in one's mind, and again 

 we sa}^ why do they not tell us more ? We are strong and 

 brave and can bear to hear the worst ; anything but this terrible 

 suspense. 



1, The Elms, 



Dingle, Liverpool. 



GAKDEN NOTES. 

 By Claude Mokley, F.Z.S. 



(Continued from 1916, p. 248). 



21. A Beneficial Dipterous Larva. — Upon several occasions in 

 the course of the last decade, I have noticed larvae, obviously 

 Dipterous and apparently Stratiomyid, feeding upon tbe roots of 

 the plantain (Plantago lanceolata, L.) that so disfigures lawns. 

 These plants are usually eradicated in autumn and the fact 

 doubtless accounts for my failure to breed the leathery larvae, 

 which are not full-fed till the late spring. On May 15th last, 

 another larva was there discovered ; tbis, being full-fed, pupated 

 — with no earth — and shortly afterwards a female of Cldoromyia 

 formosa, Scop., emerged therefrom and confirmed my Stratiomyid 

 supposition. The evacuated puparium superficially resembles 

 (though with much shorter setae) that of Pachygaster, figured 

 at p. 75 of his ' British Fhes ' of 1909 by Verrall, who tells us no 

 more of the economy of the present species than that the larva 



