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recurrent nervures meeting transverso-cubitals; apical plate of 
abdomen narrow, ferruginous. 
Hab. Yallingup, S.-W. Australia, September 14th—October 
31st, 1913 (R. E. Turner). Two females. British Museum. 
Resembles E. inconspicua, Ckll., but readily distinguished by 
the black legs and shining metathorax. Readily known from 
E. nigra, Sm., by the normal antenne and the shining, polished 
abdomen. 
Euryglossa latissima, sp. n. 
2. Length about 44 mm.; very broad and robust, with thin 
white hair; head and thorax olive-green, shining, the front dull; 
head very broad; mandibles cream-colour, with bidentate dark 
rufous apex; labrum dark; clypeus sparsely punctured; flagellum 
ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax microscopically lineolate; tubercles 
densely fringed with white hair; legs black or slightly chalybeous 
basally, but knees, tibize and tarsi ferruginous, the middle and hind 
tibia largely dusky; tegule pale testaceous; wings hyaline, stigma 
dark rufous, nervures pallid; second s.m. very large, quadrate, 
receiving first r.n. near base; second r.n. meeting second t.c. ; 
abdomen shining, very broad, honey-colour, the first segment mainly 
piceous, the following three with narrow subapical dusky bands and 
suffused dusky lateral spots. 
Hab. EHaglehawk Neck, S.-E. Tasmania, February 12th- 
March 8rd, 1918(R. E. Turner). British Museum. To be com- 
pared with H. rubiginosa, D. T., but without the dense fulvous 
hair of that species. 
GARDEN NOTES. 
By CuaupE Mortey, F.Z.S. 
WE constantly find in the English periodicals a multiplicity 
of records from moors, fens, marshes, mountains, and all kinds 
of wild corners where insects most do congregate, because they 
are undisturbed by our civilization; but how seldom are pub- 
lished notes from those spots actually inhabited by entomo- 
logists and consequently those where most leisure can be enjoyed 
to note details of history and habits! In treating ofa particular 
spot, such as one’s own garden, it is well to set forth the 
geological formation underlying it, since upon this depends the 
soil of the district and consequently a large percentage of the 
vegetation upon which the great majority of its insects subsist. 
The garden of Monk Soham House is about four acres in extent 
(including the paddock), and lies almost in the centre of High 
Suffolk, a somewhat vague district, which may be said to be a 
ridge of somewhat elevated tableland obliquely crossing the 
county from north-east to south-west. The surface soil is com- 
posed of the Great Chalky Boulder Clay, which at certain points 
