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until the 30th day of September last, when in passing I noticed 

 the underside of a dogwood leaf appeared peculiarly dark. I 

 examined it, and discovered the swart hue to be caused by an 

 interesting concourse of insects : fourteen macropterous S. corni 

 were giving off honey dew to the delight of one Lasius nig er and 

 a couple of Diptera, a Pliom, and a Hi/etodesia ; while in the 

 background lazily lounged a female Ichneumonid, Prometlieus 

 jmlchelhm, in wait for any Syvi)hid grubs that might occur. For- 

 merly this Aphid has been taken by me singly, en roijage only. 



25. Garden White's Parasites. — On a low windowsill by a 

 Southwold garden larvae of the Braconid, Apanteles glomeratus, 

 were in process of emerging from a caterpillar of Pieris hrassica 

 on September 19th, when a Chalcid fly was seen to be oviposit- 

 ing in the latter's second segment. The spicula was already 

 inserted when observed, and being worked with a very gentle 

 vertical, and not entirely continuous, motion for some four 

 minutes ; it was then withdrawn. At 4 p.m. the same after- 

 noon an Ichneumonid, Hemiteles fulvipes, was also ovipositing, 

 but this time within the already-spun cocoons covering the 

 Apanteles larvae. At ten the following morning, the caterpillar 

 was still moving about with some freedom and no sign of being 

 moribund, though not leaving the Apanteles cocoons. On the 

 22nd inst. the Pieris was still alive, covering the cocoons, but 

 unattached thereto ; I then took the Apanteles, and, below their 

 cluster, discovered the Chalcid still lurking. Two specimens of 

 the Chalcid, of whose oviposition I give a rough sketch, emerged 

 at a subsequent unnoted date ; but no Braconids at all came 

 forth, though the cocoons were retained for three years. This 

 obsefvation confirms Lyle's note (Entom., 1908, p. 249) as 

 regards the Chalcid, but confutes it with respect to the 

 Hemiteles. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Hibernation of Lampides bceticus. — Under date January 13th, 

 1917, Mr. C. E. Morris sends me from Le Cannet, A.M., the following 

 very interesting notes on this subject: "Three very worn L. bo&ticus 

 females seen as late as the first week in November in a wood near 

 here. My experience is, Algerian pea-pods, larvae and pupae, produce 

 'imagines during December and January. Emergences : January 1st, 

 1914, one female, first ; 5th, one male ; 12th, two females ; 18th 

 and 20th, one female ; 27th, three males and one female. 1915, 

 dates about the same. Some Algerian (1914) larvae pupated on the 

 dried burst pod ; others on the dry sand just under the surface, and 

 a few on the sides of the box. This year (1916) eighteen pupated 

 in a kind of nest together, i. e. each one spun up close to the other, and 

 over one another, like a cluster of small cells. Certainly I had placed 

 flower labels (wooden) leaning against the angles of the box, making 

 a kind of triangular shaft, into which they almost all collected after 

 promenading for quite a day. Of course, I do not mean to say they 



