00 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



P. atricauda is rare among the A. rostratum at Heradeum ,- P. 

 zonata, Ztt., is on these windows early in July, but is much 

 rarer than P. unicolor, which delights in the hottest weather, 

 and of another species (? nov.) I took a specimen on July 6th, 

 1919. Odontomyx Jiavipes, Pz., seems quite a late thing, whereof 



1 swept one from nettles and saw others close by on dilapidated 

 Heradeum flowers on October 27th, 1903, only, at Wherstead. 



Both species of Ceroplatus have fallen to my net ; C. lineatus 

 was considered doubtfully British till eight or ten flew about a 

 dead willow trunk, full of Stigynus Solskyi, in my garden on 

 June 6th, 1911 ; one had been taken here on 16th of the prece- 

 ding August (' Ent. Mo. Mag.,' 1912, p. 264). C. timdoides was 

 first beaten from oak in Staverton Thicks — all really ancient 

 forest — on June 24th, 1903, and subsequently was taken sitting 

 on the wall of a Monks Soham outhouse on August 16th, 1910. 



The distinctively long-horned Macrocerinse are well rejDresented 

 in Suffolk, where Macrocera lutea have been captured at Barton 

 Mills, Mildenhall and Tuddenham by beating birch and Pinus 

 sylvestris from June 3rd to 21st only. The pretty little M. 

 phalerata is not uncommon at Gosfield in Essex (how Piffard and 

 I hunted for its name twenty years ago!), and Tuddenham in 

 marshes, at Staverton on oak, and at Monks Soham on cypress 

 and windows ; my dates are from June 14th to August 27th. 

 M. centralis is from Perry Wood in the New Forest on June 14th, 

 1911 ; and there at Matley Bog on July 7th, 1909, 1 took another 

 species, probably new and now in the British Museum. M.fasdata 

 is not rare on the windows here and very handsome when alive, 

 from May 29th to October 17th, from 8 a.m. to dusk at 7.30 p.m. ; 

 also I found both sexes at Killarney in June, 1913, but il/. stigma 

 is the commonest of the genus on my windows and in a glass fly- 

 trap in the paddock ; here it has occurred annually for the past 

 ten years between May 27th and July 9th only, sometimes as early 

 as 8 a.m., though it can hardly be generally a common species, 

 since elsewhere it has turned up only at Killaloe in Tipperary, 

 where I took a female on June 16th, 1913, in a shady lane at 

 Wherstead on the same day in 1904, and on oak at Staverton 

 two days earlier. * 



In the same Blythburgh Wood, Bolitophila glahrata, Lw., was 

 found on September 14th, 1912, and my only Diadoddia ferru- 

 ginosa was taken on the dining-room window at Monks Soham on 

 September 14th, 1917. I was a day or two too late to secure a 

 good series of Mycetohia pallidlpcs on June 9th, 1900; then but 

 a single specimen was left yet sitting at the base of a very large 

 white poplar (felled the next year), by the side of a lot of its 

 empty puparia, which were protruding from exuding sap, at 

 Town Street in Brandon. This circumstance seemed to me con- 

 clusive evidence that the larvae had fed upon the moist wood fibre ; 

 and I am of the opinion that it will be found the majority of 



