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lives in garden mould and has been bred from wild rape, with no 

 reference. After emergence, my female laid two batches, each 

 consisting of about twenty, of brilliant orange and strongly 

 elongate eggs ; similar eggs were also laid by a specimen captured 

 here on July 1st, 1905. 



22. Tragedies on Peas. — In the last of these notes I referred 

 to the relationship between Anthocorid bugs and Aphididte in 

 a direct manner. Shortly afterwards, on September 10th, an 

 even more interesting, though indirect, instance of this associa- 

 tion came under my notice. Upon a lot of peas were some 

 Aphids, Sijjhonophora pisi, Buckt., which had exuded no mean 

 quantity of honey-dew. Among them were several specimens of 

 both the Anthocorid bug, Triphleps majuscula, and the dark- 

 winged Dipteron, Sciara thomae. The attraction of the latter 

 was certainly the honey- dew, for two or three were actually 

 sucking it, just as they so frequently suck flowers; the former 



had in the first instance come to attack Aphids, but the sweet- 

 stuffed flies were so sluggish and " toothsome " that I actually 

 caught two Triphleps with rostrum still inserted in their dead 

 bodies. 



23. Any Port in Storm. One of the problems that have 

 exercised our minds from an early period is " Where do insects 

 go to in bad weather ? " Few entomologists could give a more 

 satisfactory answer than the usual and vague one " Among the 

 grass." Early in September, well before hibernation, I was 

 lopping ash boughs and relieving the trunk of old ivy, at some 

 fifteen feet above the ground, when 1 noticed quite a concourse of 

 animals between the ivy stems and the tree In the course of 

 no more than an hour the following heterogeneous lot had 

 appeared : Three beetles {Aplithona atratula, Dromius 4:-maculatus 

 and Coccinella variabilis) ; one Heteropteron {Lyctocoris canu, 

 pestris) ; one Dipteron {Pipunculus campestris) ; the Neuropteron, 

 Pterodela pe.dicidaria in some numbers, with a Chrysopa larva ; 

 several species of spring-tails ; and the snail, Clausilia perversa, 

 Pult., not uncommonly. Not one of these species is in any way 

 attached to ash ; in fact, the Aphthoni is almost always found 

 upon Heliantkeinum or Teiicrium, close to the ground ; and all 

 were there congregated for no other purpose than shelter. 



21. — TJie Dogwood Aphid. — In this magazine (1908, p. 237) 

 the remark will be found that in my experience Schizoneura corni 

 is never seen on its name-plant. And this has remained true 



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