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the hole. Ill a few cases I have found that the larva has pupated 

 head downwards in the cut stick, refusing to avail itself of the 

 aperture and eating its way through the solid wood to the side, leaving 

 a thin covering of bark, as in Nature, but such cases are rare. This 

 year amongst a number of larvse of Crabroniformis was one of 

 S. formica.formis, which behaved in an exactly similar manner, 

 feeding on the pith, pupating at the top of its barrow, and emerging 

 through the hole where the stick had been cut. I have never before 

 known this species to feed in the pith of an osier stem, but always 

 in the solid wood just under the bark of an osier stump, pupating 

 between the wood and the bark, more after the fashion of 

 Gynipiformis in oak stumps. The specimen is a large one, over 

 1 in. in expanse, and almost double the size of specimens that I 

 have taken here at large and bred from the egg. — H. C. Hayward; 

 Eepton. 



The Occurrence of Spanish Fly (Lytta (Cantharis) vesica- 

 toria) at Chichester and Neighbourhood. — The record of the 

 occurrence here of this handsome little beetle, Lytta {Cantharis) 

 vesicatoria, will doubtless be of interest to coleopterists. The first 

 was taken in our garden by my brother, Mr. Frederick Anderson, on 

 June 3rd of last year. As it flitted from flower to flower in the 

 sunshine it was almost dazzling in beauty. This year two more 

 were taken in the neighbouring garden by Mr. Humphry on July 3rd 

 and July 9th respectively, and two more in the adjoining garden by 

 Mrs. Main waring on July 16th (one of these was dead and had 

 changed colour). There are other records in the district of captures, 

 including one at Feltham, near Bognor, taken by Mr. Stenson Cooke, 

 junr., on June 25th. Probably the beetles are migrants, but it is 

 somewhat remarkable that the prevailing wind was, and had been, 

 from the east for some time when they made their appearance. — 

 Joseph Anderson ; Chichester. 



SiREx GiGAs AT Chichester. — The Giant Sawfly {Sircx gigas) 

 occurred here in the early part of July. The first was taken on the 

 12th of this month. — Joseph Anderson ; Chichester. 



Local Appearance of Eriogaster lanestris. — This moth is not, 

 I believe, accounted uncommon, though, as Barrett says, " irregular 

 in appearance ; abundant in some seasons, then scarce again." So 

 I suppose I am simply unfortunate in having collected for thirty odd 

 years without seeing it. As long ago as 1858 (' The Naturalist,' viii, 

 p. 57) Greene calls it " very abundant in the neighbourhood of 

 Brandeston (three miles from Monks Soham), the hedges being quite 

 full of the large, tough, glutinous webs spun by the larvas " ; and 

 Stainton had recorded it from the adjacent town of Stowmarket the 

 previous year. In fact, Bloomfield in 1890 left it with an abrupt 

 "common" in Suffolk, whence 1273 species of Lepidoptera were 

 known at the end of 1903 ; but I never savv' nor heard of E. lanestris 

 in the county till June 15th of the present year, when the above 

 conspicuous webs suddenly appeared in Monks Soham and its conter- 

 minous villages of Worling worth, Bedingfield, Kenton and Debenham, 

 within a total two-mile radius of Kenton Hall. In all I have counted 



