THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. L.] DECEMBER, 1917. [No. 655 



OCCUKKENCE OF AN AUSTRALIAN CECOPHORID 

 IN ENGLAND. 



By Edward Meyeick, B.A., F.E.S., Etc. 



In the 'Entomologist,' 1910, vol. xliii, p. 96, Mr. C. G. 

 Clutterbuck recorded the capture by the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe in 

 Devon of an insect identified by me as Ocystola cBthopis, an 

 Australian species of the (Ecophoridce. Mr. Metcalfe took this 

 year at Exmouth a similar example and sent it to me for 

 identification ; this is without doubt the closely allied and much 

 commoner acroxantha, Meyr., and I am therefore now of opinion 

 that the first example was wrongly identified, and was probably 

 a melanic variety of acroxantha , the normal form of which is 

 characterised by the yellow terminal cilia of fore-wings. This 

 species has lately been introduced from Australia into New 

 Zealand. I suppose it to be attached to Eucalyptus, but whereas 

 saplings could easily be, and probably are, sent from Australia 

 to New Zealand, it seems very improbable that they are sent to 

 England, plants being easil}^ raised in this country from seed 

 (I have raised five or six kinds myself). Hence the importation 

 is difficult to explain. But Mr. Metcalfe states that the specimen 

 was beaten from an elm in a field, and adjoining this field is a 

 nursery in which imported plants may be growing ; moreover, 

 Eucalyptus grows well at Exmouth, where, I expect, several 

 species would stand the winter. He thinks that the former 

 specimen may probably have been from the same locality, and 

 hopes to investigate further. ^' ' er -^Of %v-»rv 



Thornhanger, Marlborough, / Of^OaJOv* 



November 8th, 1917. | \\\., 



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TWO NEW HUMBLE-BEES FROM CHIN^f: 



By T. D. a Cockerell. 



Some time ago Mr. N. Gist Gee sent to the U.S. National 

 Museum two species of Bomhus from the Chinese province of 

 Kiangsi. Both are new, and are herewith described. 



Bomhus geei, n. sp. 



Female. — Length about 20 mm., anterior wing 16; broad and 

 robust, black, with black hair, but a rather obscure patch of yellow 

 hair on each side of basal part of abdomen sublaterally overlapping 



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