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not yet differentiated vitripennis, though Mr. Verrall says the two 

 species are distinct ; one female, however, exactly answers to Mr. 

 Verrall's vitripemiis. Of S. nitidlcollU, an uncommon species, I took a 

 perfect female on the outskirts, and of atbostriatus and cinctellns, one 

 female each. Also present were Chilosia (three or four species, at least), 

 Pipiza noctiluca, female, and Platychinus scutatus, male. A pair of 

 Xylota seg7us, a male Brachyopa bicolor, a male Xanthnfjramma citro- 

 fasciatum, all from the Glen. Six specimens of Baccha, of which three 

 answer to obscuripennis and three to elongata, tested by the wing 

 coloration, but I cannot separate them in accordance with the specific 

 character of the dusted face. A few specimens of a Pipiza, &c., a 

 Chrysoffaster, five or six species of Tachinidje, two of Sarcojyhaga (one 

 with red-tipped abdomen), a (Jraphomyia maculata, female; Polietes 

 lardaria and P. albolineata, both rather common, with at least a dozen 

 other species of Anthomyid^e, apart from those that are ubiquitous; 

 Myodina vibrans, Sapromyza (three species), Scatophaga (three species), 

 Spilogra]iha zoe, and another Trypetid. In Nemocera, a small series, 

 including both sexes, of Ptgchoptera contaminata, in a ditch and pool 

 at the extreme land end of the Glen, Pachyrina sp. {? pratensis), male 

 and female in cop., Tipula (7 vemalis), and another species of the genus, 

 besides about a dozen species of Limnobinae, the latter taken on a 

 dull damp day around the spring in Ecclesbourue Glen, and in com- 

 pany with several species of Mycetophilidte and Chironoinidm. 



In Coleoptera, Coccinella bipunctata was common in cop. on bushes in 

 the sunshine. I saw one 7-punctota, but it escaped me, and 1 took two 

 or three other species, unless they are vars. of variabilis; two species of 

 Telephorus, a small livid one, and (I- think) peUacidus ; several of the 

 smaller and commoner befctles, and a Clytus nrietis, which, reviving 

 from the sulphur fumes after being impaled, lived thus for several days. 

 A monster brown and yellow dragonfly fell a prey either to curiosity or 

 bravado, as, after missing it the first time (due to it settling on the 

 top of a high bush covered with brambles in Ecclesbourne Glen), it 

 hovered just above the same spot, and I took it with a return stroke of 

 the net. I captured also two much smaller dragonflies, and saw a 

 species of Msclma, flying too high to reach it. One or two species of 

 Nomada, a large female Bombus lapidarius, two or three Chrysids, several 

 Tenthredinidae, and a number of a rather large black ant on a dead 

 tree stump, represented the Hymenoptera, and in Lepidoptera I only 

 saw the common white, common blue, and small heath, and only one 

 or two of each. 



In fine weather, a week or fortnight in this locality ought to result 

 in a rich harvest. Ecclesbourne Glen must possess an extensive fauna 

 in at least Diptera, and though I did not visit the sister glen (Fairlight), 

 it ought, I think, to be about equally productive. — E. Brunetti ; 103, 

 Brixton Road, S.W. 



Notes from New Zealand. — I arrived here October 2nd, 1902, 

 but except a few hyberuated Vanessa gonerilla, which greatly resembles 

 English V. atalanta, and feeds on nettle, and of which I subsequently 

 bred a nice series, there was nothing about until the end of the month, 

 when at light I obtained several examples of the magnificent green 

 Hepialus virescens. The season was very wet and cold, and there were 



